Famous Tangible Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Tangible poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous tangible poems. These examples illustrate what a famous tangible poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Paterson, Andrew Barton
...suits yourself,
And you'll find the skins -- on the kangaroos!"
Then he left -- and the silence settled down
Like a tangible thing upon Walgett Town....Read more of this...
by
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
...hes you.
My verse
by labor
will break the mountain chain of years,
and will present itself
ponderous,
crude,
tangible,
as an aqueduct,
by slaves of Rome
constructed,
enters into our days.
When in mounds of books,
where verse lies buried,
you discover by chance the iron filings of lines,
touch them
with respect,
as you would
some antique
yet awesome weapon.
It’s no habit of mine
to caress
the ear
with words;
a maiden’s ear
curly-ringed
will not c...Read more of this...
by
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...him
Was never yet on earth or in the ocean,
Or anywhere else than in my sense of him.
Had all I made of him been tangible,
The Lord must have invented long ago
Some private and unspeakable new monster
Equipped for such a thing’s extermination;
Whereon the monster, seeing no other monster
Worth biting, would have died with his work done.
There’s a humiliation in it now,
As there was then, and worse than there was then;
For then there was the boy to shoulder i...Read more of this...
by
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
...osphere,
Which stimulates a tendency to dreaming.
The shores of the ideal world, from here,
Seem sometimes to be tangible and near.
We have no use for formal codes of fashion;
No "Etiquette f Courts" we emulate;
We know it needs sincerity and passion
To carry out the plans of God, or fate;
We do not strive to seem inanimate.
We call no time lost that we give to pleasure;
Life's hurrying river speeds to Death's great sea;
We cast out no vain plummet-line...Read more of this...
by
Flynn, Nick
...ll crash into the rock. Ten-year-olds
should stick with burning houses, car wrecks,
ships going down -- earthbound, tangible
disasters, arenas
where they can be heroes. You can run
back into a burning house, sinking ships
have lifeboats, the trucks will come
with their ladders, if you jump
you will be saved. A child
places her hand on the roof of a schoolbus,
& drives across a city of sand. She knows
the exact spot it will skid, at which point
the bridge...Read more of this...
by
Gregory, Rg
...bring to reason birds
mock in us - lift beyond us in their song
so easily killed - yet their note outlives
everything tangible we must get wrong
we can't stop taking what the natural gives
so many doors to open that confuse
pre-history's offers (there to do us well)
atoms are cracking as we dare not choose
to heed the testament of bird or shell
within the shell swim all the sea's fish
this moment pregnant with what can't be born
a waste to walk on the shore and not relish...Read more of this...
by
Tebb, Barry
...Two nights I have dreamed of you
Once as an adolescent, evanescent
Yet tangible still to the spirit’s touch,
Then as a ten year old in the shared
Secret garden of our imagination....Read more of this...
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