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Famous Sties Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ay 
Her out of the nest's warm, busy ball, 
Whose plaintive cries start up as she flies 
In one blue stoop from out the sties 
Into the evening's empty hall. 

Oh, water-hen, beside the rushes 
Hide your quaint, unfading blushes, 
Still your quick tail, and lie as dead, 
Till the distance covers his dangerous tread. 

The rabbit presses back her ears, 
Turns back her liquid, anguished eyes 
And crouches low: then with wild spring 
Spurts from the terror of the oncoming 
To be...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.



...r out of the nest's warm, busy ball,
    Whose plaintive cry is heard as she flies
    In one blue stoop from out the sties
    Into the evening's empty hall.

Oh, water-hen, beside the rushes
Hide your quaint, unfading blushes,
Still your quick tail, and lie as dead,
Till the distance folds over his ominous tread.

The rabbit presses back her ears,
Turns back her liquid, anguished eyes
And crouches low: then with wild spring
Spurts from the terror of _his_ oncom...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.
...air young city comes,
For in its heart are growing thick the filthy dens and slums,
Where human forms shall rot away in sties for swine unmeet,
And ghostly faces shall be seen unfit for any street 
 Rotting out, rotting out,
 For the lack of air and meat 
In dens of vice and horror that are hidden from the street. 

I wonder would the apathy of wealthy men endure
Were all their windows level with the faces of the Poor?
Ah! Mammon's slaves, your knees shall knock, your hearts ...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry
...Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, 
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise....Read more of this...
by Belloc, Hilaire

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