Famous Suggests Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Green Crabs Shell

...a Greco-Roman wreck,
patinated and oddly

muscular. We cannot
know what his fantastic
legs were like--

though evidence
suggests eight
complexly folded

scuttling works
of armament, crowned
by the foreclaws'

gesture of menace
and power. A gull's
gobbled the center,

leaving this chamber
--size of a demitasse--
open to reveal

a shocking, Giotto blue.
Though it smells
of seaweed and ruin,

this little traveling case
comes with such lavish lining!
Imagine breathing

surrounded...Read more of this...
by Doty, Mark


An Old Man To His Sleeping Young Bride

...As when the old moon lighted by the tender
And radiant crescent of the new is seen,
And for a moment's space suggests the splendor
Of what in its full prime it once has been,
So on my waning years you cast the glory
Of youth and pleasure, for a little hour;
And life again seems like an unread story,
And joy and hope both stir me with their power.

Can blooming June be fond of bleak December?
I dare not wait to hear my heart reply.
I will forget the question-and rem...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

By my Window have I for Scenery

...ind is within --
Can the Dumb -- define the Divine?
The Definition of Melody -- is --
That Definition is none --

It -- suggests to our Faith --
They -- suggest to our Sight --
When the latter -- is put away
I shall meet with Conviction I somewhere met
That Immortality --

Was the Pine at my Window a "Fellow
Of the Royal" Infinity?
Apprehensions -- are God's introductions --
To be hallowed -- accordingly --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

The City of Dreadful Thirst

...Bogan shower -- three raindrops and some dust; 
But each man, simultaneous-like, to each man said, 'I think 
That cloud suggests it's up to us to have another drink!' 


"There's clouds of rain and clouds of dust -- we've heard of them before, 
And sometimes in the daily press we read of 'clouds of war': 
But -- if this ain't the Gospel truth I hope that I may burst-- 
That cloud that came to Narromine was just a cloud of thirst. 


"It wasn't like a common cloud, 'twas more ...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

The Love a Life can show Below

...arrowing Iodine --

'Tis this -- invites -- appalls -- endows --
Flits -- glimmers -- proves -- dissolves --
Returns -- suggests -- convicts -- enchants --
Then -- flings in Paradise --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily


The Millers Tale

...glo-Saxon,
"piga," a young maid; but Tyrwhitt associates it with the Latin,
"ocellus," little eye, a fondling term, and suggests that the "pigs-
eye," which is very small, was applied in the same sense.
Davenport and Butler both use the word pigsnie, the first for
"darling," the second literally for "eye;" and Bishop Gardner,
"On True Obedience," in his address to the reader, says: "How
softly she was wont to chirpe him under the chin, and kiss him;
how prettily she could tal...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Reeves Tale

...shire.
Chaucer has given the scholars a dialect that may have belonged
to either district, although it more immediately suggests the
more northern of the two.
(Transcribers note: later commentators have identified it with a
now vanished village near Kirknewton in Northumberland.
There was a well-known Alein of Strother in Chaucer's
lifetime.)

8. Wanges: grinders, cheek-teeth; Anglo-Saxon, "Wang," the
cheek; German, "Wange."

9. See note 1 to the Prologue to the Reeves Tale

...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

Thought was born blind, but Thought knows what is seeing

...Thought was born blind, but Thought knows what is seeing.

Its careful touch, deciphering forms from shapes,

Still suggests form as aught whose proper being

Mere finding touch with erring darkness drapes.

Yet whence, except from guessed sight, does touch teach

That touch is but a close and empty sense?

How does mere touch, self-uncontented, reach

For some truer sense's whole intelligence?

The thing once touched, if touch be now omitted,

Stands yet in...Read more of this...
by Pessoa, Fernando

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