Famous Successions Poems by Famous Poets

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

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To Think of Time

by Walt Whitman
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TO think of time—of all that retrospection! 
To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! 

Have you guess’d you yourself would not continue? 
Have you dreaded these earth-beetles? 
Have you fear’d the future would be nothing to you?

Is to-day nothing? Is the beginningless past nothing? 
If the future is nothing, they are just as surely nothing. 

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Says

by Walt Whitman
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I SAY whatever tastes sweet to the most perfect person, that is finally right. 
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I say nourish a great intellect, a great brain; 
If I have said anything to the contrary, I hereby retract it. 

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I say man shall not hold property in man; 
I say the least developed person on earth is just as important and sacred to...Read more of this...

This Compost

by Walt Whitman
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SOMETHING startles me where I thought I was safest; 
I withdraw from the still woods I loved; 
I will not go now on the pastures to walk; 
I will not strip the clothes from my body to meet my lover the sea; 
I will not touch my flesh to the earth, as to other flesh, to renew me.

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