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Famous Swing Around Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...n Pity do
Pent up in Murderers' Hole?
What word of grace in such a place
Could help a brother's soul?


With slouch and swing around the ring
We trod the Fools' Parade!
We did not care: we knew we were
The Devil's Own Brigade:
And shaven head and feet of lead
Make a merry masquerade.

We tore the tarry rope to shreds
With blunt and bleeding nails;
We rubbed the doors, and scrubbed the floors,
And cleaned the shining rails:
And, rank by rank, we soaped the plank,
And clattered...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar



...as much darkness as light;
The very sun swings itself and its system of planets around us; 
Its sun, and its again, all swing around us. 
As for me, (torn, stormy, even as I, amid these vehement days,) 
I have the idea of all, and am all, and believe in all; 
I believe materialism is true, and spiritualism is true—I reject no part.

Have I forgotten any part? 
Come to me, whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition. 

I respect Assyria, China, Teutonia, and the Hebrews;...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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