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Famous Transfers Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...Thinking hard about you 
I got on the bus 
and paid 30 cents car fare 
and asked the driver for two transfers 
before discovering 
that I was 
alone....Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard



...town-hall. 
There were the sordid provincial shops -- 
The grocer's, and the shops for women, 
The shop where I bought transfers, 
And the piano and gramaphone shop 
Where I used to stand 
Staring at the huge shiny pianos and at the pictures 
Of a white dog looking into a gramaphone. 

How dull and greasy and grey and sordid it was! 
On wet days -- it was always wet -- 
I used to kneel on a chair 
And look at it from the window. 

The dirty yellow trams 
Dragged noisily alon...Read more of this...
by Aldington, Richard
...are th' assaulted did defend, 
And the secur'd and grazing Part attend, 
Approves the Conduct, and from Sheep and Curs 
Transfers the Sway, and changed his Wool to Furrs. 
Lord-Keeper now, as rightly he divides 
His just Decrees, and speedily decides; 
When his sole Neighbor, whilst he watch'd the Fold, 
A Hermit poor, in Contemplation old, 
Hastes to his Ear, with safe, but lost Advice, 
Tells him such Heights are levell'd in a trice, 
Preferments treach'rous, and her Paths ...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill

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