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Famous Tardily Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Wreak suddenly its anger and its pain; 
For manifest in that disastrous light 
We shall discern the right 
And do it, tardily. -- O ye who lead, 
Take heed! 
Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite....Read more of this...
by Moody, William Vaughn



...nt, skinny. 
In these palustral homes we only 
Croak and wither. 

Mornings dissipate in somnolence. 
The sun brightens tardily 
Among the pithless reeds. Flies fail us. 
he fen sickens. 

Frost drops even the spider. Clearly 
The genius of plenitude 
Houses himself elsewhwere. Our folk thin 
Lamentably....Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia
...n will come and let me out."

The evening came, the sun descended,
And puss remain'd still unattended.
The night roll'd tardily away
(With her indeed 'twas never day),
The sprightly morn her course renew'd,
The evening gray again ensued,
And puss came into mind no more
Than if entomb'd the day before.
With hunger pinch'd, and pinch'd for room,
She now presag'd approaching doom,
Nor slept a single wink, or purr'd,
Conscious of jeopardy incurr'd.

That night, by chance, the poe...Read more of this...
by Cowper, William
...een her aim 
 To meet me in the hall; 
Now at my footsteps no one came; 
 And no one to my call. 

Again I knocked; and tardily 
 An inner step was heard, 
And I was shown her presence then 
 With scarce an answering word. 

She met me, and but barely took 
 My proffered warm embrace; 
Preoccupation weighed her look, 
 And hardened her sweet face. 

"To-morrow--could you--would you call? 
 Make brief your present stay? 
My child is ill--my one, my all! - 
 And can't be left t...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

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