Famous Usable Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Usable poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous usable poems. These examples illustrate what a famous usable poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful
and terrible thing, needful to man as air,
usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all,
when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,
reflex action; when it is finally won; when it is more
than the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians:
this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this *****
beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
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Laurence Dunbar, Paul
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