Famous Thoroughfares Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Prayer For My Daughter

...degroom bring her to a house
Where all's accustomed, ceremonious;
For arrogance and hatred are the wares
Peddled in the thoroughfares.
How but in custom and in ceremony
Are innocence and beauty born?
Ceremony's a name for the rich horn,
And custom for the spreading laurel tree....Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler


Ballad Of The Long-Legged Bait

...that the fisherman combed
When his long-legged flesh was a wind on fire
And his loin was a hunting flame

Coil from the thoroughfares of her hair
And terribly lead him home alive
Lead her prodigal home to his terror,
The furious ox-killing house of love.

Down, down, down, under the ground,
Under the floating villages,
Turns the moon-chained and water-wound
Metropolis of fishes,

There is nothing left of the sea but its sound,
Under the earth the loud sea walks,
In deathbeds ...Read more of this...
by Thomas, Dylan

Beautiful Nairn

...the time agreeably,
By viewing Tarbetness, which slopes downwards to the sea;
And Queen Street is one of the prettiest thoroughfares,
Because there's splendid shops in it, and stocked with different wares. 

And there's ornamental grounds, and lovely shady nooks,
Which is a great advantage to visitors while reading their books;
And there's a certain place known as the Ladies' Beach,
So private that no intruder can them reach. 

And there's many neat cottages with gardens ver...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

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...rather have my verses win 
A place in common people's hearts, 
Who, toiling through the strife and din 
Of life's great thoroughfares, and marts, 

May read some line my hand has penned; 
Some simple verse, not fine, or grand, 
But what their hearts can understand 
And hold me henceforth as a friend,-- 

I'd rather win such quiet fame 
Than by some fine thought, bolished so 
But those of learned minds would know, 
Just what the meaning of my song,-- 
To have the critics sound...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Rahel to Varnhagen

...an atom frightened 
Because you know so little. And what is this? 
You know the luxury there is in haunting
The blasted thoroughfares of disillusion— 
If that’s your name for them—with only ghosts 
For company? You know that when a woman 
Is blessed, or cursed, with a divine impatience 
(Another name of yours for a bad temper)
She must have one at hand on whom to wreak it 
(That’s what you mean, whatever the turn you give it), 
Sure of a kindred sympathy, and thereby 
Effect ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington


Snowbound a Winter Idyl

...aff and gown, 
What convent-gate has held its lock 
Against the challenge of her knock! 
Through Smyrna's plague-hushed thoroughfares, 
Up sea-set Malta's rocky stair, 
Gray olive slopes of hills that hem 
Thy tombs and shrines, Jerusalem, 
Or startling on her desert throne 
The crazy Queen of Lebanon 
With claims fantastic as her own, 
Her tireless feet have held their way; 
And still, unrestful. bowed, and gray, 
She watches under Eastern skies, 
With hope each day renewed ...Read more of this...
by Whittier, John Greenleaf

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