Famous Urgings Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Clavering

by Edwin Arlington Robinson
 I say no more for Clavering 
Than I should say of him who fails 
To bring his wounded vessel home 
When reft of rudder and of sails; 

I say no more than I should say
Of any other one who sees 
Too far for guidance of to-day, 
Too near for the eternities. 

I think of him as I should think...Read more of this...

Françoise And The Fruit Farmer

by James A Emanuel
 In town to sell his fruit, he saw her—
Françoise in her summer slacks—
turning to him, coming back
to feel the swelling plums,
one held in each soft hand, breast-high,
above them her eyes enclosing him
in quietness brushed up to colors,
urgings green, thrustings yellow.

A vine-like touch, her promise seemed all profit,
surplus to lay aside and store,
quick harvest if he collapsed his stand,
pulled down...Read more of this...

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