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Famous Wall Up Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Plath, Sylvia
...n dark glasses?

Is it any wonder he affects a black cassock?
Here he comes now, among the mackerel gatherers

Who wall up their backs against him.
They are handling the black and green lozenges like the parts of a body.

The sea, that crystallized these, 
Creeps away, many-snaked, with a long hiss of distress.


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This black boot has no mercy for anybody.
Why should it, it is the hearse of a dad foot,

The high, dead, toeless foot of this ...Read more of this...



by Masefield, John
...Until she'd promised we should meet 
Next evening, six, at top of street, 
When we could have a quiet talk 
On that low wall up Worcester Walk. 
And while we whispered there together 
I give her silver for a feather 
And felt a drunkenness like wine 
And shut out Christ in husks and swine. 
I felt the dart strike through my liver. 
God punish me for't and forgive her. 

Each one could be a Jesus mild, 
Each one has been a little child, 
A little child with lau...Read more of this...

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