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Famous Swelters Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Gorman, Amanda
...cues people from floodwaters.

There’s a poem in Los Angeles
yawning wide as the Pacific tide
where a single mother swelters
in a windowless classroom, teaching
black and brown students in Watts
to spell out their thoughts
so her daughter might write
this poem for you.             

There's a lyric in California
where thousands of students march for blocks,
undocumented and unafraid;
where my friend Rosa finds the power to blossom
in deadlock, her spirit the be...Read more of this...



by Owen, Wilfred
...t slow panic,
Gouged these chasms round their fretted sockets?
Ever from their hair and through their hand palms
Misery swelters. Surely we have perished
Sleeping, and walk hell; but who these hellish?

-- These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished.
Memory fingers in their hair of murders,
Multitudinous murders they once witnessed.
Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,
Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter.
Always they must see these...Read more of this...

by Chatterton, Thomas
...r power; 
The Virgin faints beneath the sultry show'r, 
Now the just Balance weighs his equal force, 
The slimy Serpent swelters in his course; 
The sabled Archer clouds his languid face; 
The Goat, with tempests, urges on his race; 
Now in the Wat'rer his faint beams appear, 
And the cold Fishes end the circling year. 
Beyond our globe the sanguine Mars displays 
A strong reflection of primoeval rays; 
Next belted Jupiter far distant gleams, 
Scarcely enlighten'd with th...Read more of this...

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