Famous Testifies Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Chartres

by Edith Wharton
 I

Immense, august, like some Titanic bloom,
 The mighty choir unfolds its lithic core,
Petalled with panes of azure, gules and or,
 Splendidly lambent in the Gothic gloom,
And stamened with keen flamelets that illume
 The pale high-alter. On the prayer-worn floor,
By worshippers innumerous thronged of yore,
 A few brown crones, familiars of the tomb,
The stranded driftwood of Faith's ebbing sea--
 For...Read more of this...

Yes the Dead Speak to Us

by Carl Sandburg
 YES, the Dead speak to us.
This town belongs to the Dead, to the Dead and to the Wilderness.

Back of the clamps on a fireproof door they hold the papers of the Dead in a house here
And when two living men fall out, when one says the Dead spoke a Yes, and the other says the Dead spoke a No,...Read more of this...

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