Famous Stubbornly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Allies

by Amy Lowell
 August 14th, 1914

Into the brazen, burnished sky, the cry hurls itself. The 
zigzagging cry
of hoarse throats, it floats against the hard winds, and binds the 
head
of the serpent to its tail, the long snail-slow serpent of marching 
men.
Men weighed down with rifles and knapsacks, and parching with war.
The cry jars and splits against the brazen, burnished sky.
This is the...Read more of this...

Railway Tracks

by Omer Tarin
Twice or thrice they crisscross
Across the level crossing
And the nettles cling 
Stubbornly to their sides
Spreading their displeasure
Upon the broken ridges
Of crumbling soil;

But the nettles cannot go
Where railway tracks lead-
Everywhere
And nowhere
All at once

Whistling into the night
With a longing
That pierces
Isolation.

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(c) Omer Tarin. Pub ''Pasban Review'' Pakistan (1999) ...Read more of this...

Tulips

by Sylvia Plath
 The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.
Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands.
I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.
I have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses
And my history to the...Read more of this...

The Fishermen

by Emile Verhaeren
The spot is flaked with mist, that fills,
Thickening into rolls more dank,
The thresholds and the window-sills,
And smokes on every bank.


The river stagnates, pestilent
With carrion by the current sent
This way and that—and yonder lies
The moon, just like a woman dead,
That they have smothered overhead,
Deep in the skies.


In a few boats alone there gleam
Lamps that light up and magnify
The backs, bent over...Read more of this...

The Silence

by Emile Verhaeren
Ever since ending of the summer weather.
When last the thunder and the lightning broke,
Shatt'ring themselves upon it at one stroke,
The Silence has not stirred, there in the heather.


All round about stand steeples straight as stakes,
And each its bell between its fingers shakes;
All round about, with their three-storied loads,
The teams prowl down the roads;
All round about, where'er the pine woods end,
The...Read more of this...

If You Only Knew

by Robert Desnos
 Far from me and like the stars, the sea and all the trappings of poetic myth,
Far from me but here all the same without your knowing,
Far from me and even more silent because I imagine you endlessly.
Far from me, my lovely mirage and eternal dream, you cannot know.
If you only knew.
Far from me and even farther yet from being...Read more of this...

the Labirinth

by Jorge Luis Borges
The Labyrinth I

Zeus himself could not undo the web
of stone closing around me. I have forgotten
the men I was before; I follow the hated
path of monotonous walls
that is my destiny. Severe galleries
which curve in secret circles
to the end of the years. Parapets
cracked by the days' usury.
In the pale dust I have discerned
signs that frighten me. In the concave
evenings the air...Read more of this...

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