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Famous Stilt Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...ous Nine
 Were glowrin owre my pen.
My spaviet Pegasus will limp,
 Till ance he’s fairly het;
And then he’ll hilch, and stilt, an’ jimp,
 And rin an unco fit:
 But least then the beast then
 Should rue this hasty ride,
 I’ll light now, and dight now
 His sweaty, wizen’d hide.


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by Burns, Robert



...not,
as yet, a yurt. In these places
he has slept, eaten,
put his forehead to the window glass,
looking out. He's in a stilt-house now,
the water passing beneath him half the day;
the other half it's mud. The tides
do this: they come, they go,
while he sleeps, eats, puts his forehead
to the window glass.
He's moving soon: his trailer to a trailer park,
or to the priory to live among the penitents
but in his own cell,
with wheels, to take him, when it's time
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by Lux, Thomas
...Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that
 catches the eye.
What if my great-granddad had a pair that were
 twenty foot high,
And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern Stalks
 upon higher,
Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence
 or a fire.

Because piebald ponies, led bears, caged lions, ake
 but poor shows,
Because children demand Daddy-long-legs upon This
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by Yeats, William Butler

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