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Famous Take Five Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Browning, Robert
...of: there's a spider here 
Weaves no web, watches on the ledge of tombs, 
Sprinkled with mottles on an ash-grey back; 
Take five and drop them . . . but who knows his mind, 
The Syrian runagate I trust this to? 
His service payeth me a sublimate 
Blown up his nose to help the ailing eye. 
Best wait: I reach Jerusalem at morn, 
There set in order my experiences, 
Gather what most deserves, and give thee all-- 
Or I might add, Judea's gum-tragacanth 
Scales off...Read more of this...



by Nash, Ogden
...strut?
Then that one about how you're in Boston before you can say antidis-
establishmentarianism
So that preferring to take five hours by rail is a pernicious example of
antiquarianism.
At least when I get on the Boston train I have a good chance of landing
in the South Station
And not in that part of the daily press which is reserved for victims of
aviation.
Then, despite the assurance that aeroplanes are terribly comfortable I
notice that when you are railroading o...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...br> 
You are too far away to make me stop.
They say that one drop—think of it, one drop!— 
Will be enough,—but I’ll take five instead. 

“You do not frown because I call you friend, 
For I would have you glad that I still keep 
Your memory, and even at the end—
Impenitent, sick, shattered—cannot curse 
The love that flings, for better or for worse, 
This worn-out, cast-out flesh of mine to sleep.”...Read more of this...

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