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Famous Turfs Poems by Famous Poets

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

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..., hungers, aches not much, 
Than trying what to do with wit and strength. 
'Falls to make something: 'piled yon pile of turfs, 
And squared and stuck there squares of soft white chalk, 
And, with a fish-tooth, scratched a moon on each, 
And set up endwise certain spikes of tree, 
And crowned the whole with a sloth's skull a-top, 
Found dead i' the woods, too hard for one to kill. 
No use at all i' the work, for work's sole sake; 
'Shall some day knock it down again: so He. 

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by Browning, Robert



...ht persuades me to my bed, 
I'll think I'm going to be buried; 
So shall the blankets which come over me 
Present those turfs, which once must cover me;
And with as firm behaviour I will meet 
The sheet I sleep in, as my winding-sheet. 
When Sleep shall bathe his body in mine eyes, 
I will believe, that then my body dies; 
And if I chance to wake, and rise thereon, 
I'll have in mind my resurrection, 
Which must produce me to that Gen'ral Doom,
To which the peasant, so the pr...Read more of this...
by Herrick, Robert
...iss
By you, sir, to awake him.

Pray hurt him not; though he be dead,
He knows well who do love him;
And who with green turfs rear his head,
And who do rudely move him.

He's soft and tender, pray take heed,
With bands of cowslips bind him,
And bring him home;--but 'tis decreed
That I shall never find him....Read more of this...
by Herrick, Robert
...thee oft what poets thou hast read,
And lik'st the best? Still thou repli'st, The dead.
--I shall, ere long, with green turfs cover'd be;
Then sure thou'lt like, or thou wilt envy, me....Read more of this...
by Herrick, Robert

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