Famous Tamper Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Tamper poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous tamper poems. These examples illustrate what a famous tamper poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Auden, Wystan Hugh (W H)
...For poetry makes nothing happen: it survivesIn the valley of its making where executivesWould never want to tamper, flows on southFrom ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,A way of happening, a mouth.
Earth, receive an honoured guest:William Yeats is laid to rest.Let the Irish vessel lieEmptied of its poetry.In the nightmare of the darkAll the dogs of Eur...Read more of this...
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Dickinson, Emily
...It would not know if it were spurned,
This gallant little flower --
How therefore safe to be a flower
If one would tamper there.
To enter, it would not aspire --
But may it not despair
That it is not a Cavalier,
To dare and perish there?...Read more of this...
by
Dickinson, Emily
...tinctured for an instant
With Immortality
But yesterday a Vagrant --
Today in Memory lain
With superstitious value
We tamper with "Again"
But "Never" far as Honor
Withdraws the Worthless thing
And impotent to cherish
We hasten to adorn --
Of Death the sternest function
That just as we discern
The Excellence defies us --
Securest gathered then
The Fruit perverse to plucking,
But leaning to the Sight
With the ecstatic limit
Of unobtained Delight --...Read more of this...
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