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Famous Starring Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Starring poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous starring poems. These examples illustrate what a famous starring poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...he world a small place?” 

The lion were none other than Wallace, 
He were going to Sydney, too. 
To fulfil a short starring engagement 
In a cage at Taronga Park Zoo. 

As they talked they heard footsteps approaching, 
“Someone comes” whispered Wallace, “Quick, hide”. 
He opened his mouth to the fullest,
And Albert sprang nimbly inside. 

'Twere Captain on morning inspection, 
When he saw Wallace shamming to doze, 
He picked up a straw from his bedding, 
And ...Read more of this...
by Edgar, Marriott



...o more, 
For Driver Smith with his ambulance had ended the blooming war. 
And in London now at the music halls he's starring it every night, 
And drawing a hundred pounds a week to tell how he won the fight....Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...
I searched their haunts in vain
For blue hepaticas, and trilliums white,
And trailing arbutus, the Spring's delight, 
Starring the withered leaves with rosy bloom. 
The woods were bare: and every night the frost 
To all my longings spoke a silent nay,
And told me Spring was far and far away. 
Even the robins were too cold to sing,
Except a broken and discouraged note, --
Only the tuneful sparrow, on whose throat
Music has put her triple finger-print,
Lifted his head...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van
...ose . . .

Time is dissolved, it blows like a little dust:
Time, like a flurry of rain,
Patters and passes, starring the window-pane.
Once, long ago, one night,
She saw the lightning, with long blue quiver of light,
Ripping the darkness . . . and as she turned in terror
A soft face leaned above her, leaned softly down,
Softly around her a breath of roses was blown,
She sank in waves of quiet, she seemed to float
In a sea of silence . . .Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad
...ose . . .

Time is dissolved, it blows like a little dust:
Time, like a flurry of rain,
Patters and passes, starring the window-pane.
Once, long ago, one night,
She saw the lightning, with long blue quiver of light,
Ripping the darkness . . . and as she turned in terror
A soft face leaned above her, leaned softly down,
Softly around her a breath of roses was blown,
She sank in waves of quiet, she seemed to float
In a sea of silence . . .Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad



...rry-laden forests,
rivers where the folk with bare hands catch sturgeon
or the towns in whose soggy phone books
you are starring no longer; father eastward surge on
brown mountain ranges; wild mares carousing
in tall sedge; the cheeckbones get yellower
as they turn numerous. And still farther east, steam dreadnoughts
 or cruisers,
and the expanse grows blue like lace underwear....Read more of this...
by Brodsky, Joseph
...-laden forests 
rivers where the folk with bare hands catch sturgeon
or the towns in whose soggy phone books
you are starring no longer; father eastward surge on
brown mountain ranges; wild mares carousing
in tall sedge; the cheeckbones get blueer
as they turn numerous. And still farther
east steam dreadnoughts

or cruisers 
and the expanse grows blue like lace underwear.
...Read more of this...
by Brodsky, Joseph

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