Famous Sullivan Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Visiting a Dead Man on a Summer Day

by Marge Piercy
 In flat America, in Chicago, 
Graceland cemetery on the German North Side. 
Forty feet of Corinthian candle 
celebrate Pullman embedded 
lonely raisin in a cake of concrete. 
The Potter Palmers float 
in an island parthenon. 
Barons of hogfat, railroads and wheat 
are postmarked with angels and lambs. 

But the Getty tomb: white, snow patterned 
in a triangle of trees...Read more of this...

Sweet Charmer.{1}

by Victor Hugo
 ("L'aube naît et ta porte est close.") 
 
 {XXIII., February, 18—.} 


 Though heaven's gate of light uncloses, 
 Thou stirr'st not—thou'rt laid to rest, 
 Waking are thy sister roses, 
 One only dreamest on thy breast. 
 Hear me, sweet dreamer! 
 Tell me all thy fears, 
 Trembling in song, 
 But to break in...Read more of this...

The Sick Stockrider

by Adam Lindsay Gordon
 Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. 
Old man, you've had your work cut out to guide 
Both horses, and to hold me in the saddle when I swayed, 
All through the hot, slow, sleepy, silent ride. 
The dawn at "Moorabinda" was a mist rack dull and dense, 
The sun-rise was a...Read more of this...

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