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Famous Weathering Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ttle here, and then a little there-
What use are any words of mine to swear
My heart is stubborn, and my spirit slow
Of weathering the drip and drive of woe?
What is my oath, when you have but to bare
My little, easy loves; and I can dare
Only to shrug, and answer, "They are so"?

You do not know how heavy a heart it is
That hangs about my neck- a clumsy stone
Cut with a birth, a death, a bridal-day.
Each time I love, I find it still my own,
Who take it, now to that lad, now ...Read more of this...
by Parker, Dorothy



...he fire back

In a language that has

Metamorphosed through

Centuries of speechBurned into tree

Bark and exposed to 

Weathering like stones

In hillside farms.





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I want a poetry

Like cobbles in rain

And molten like a river

Running; hold!

If the sources of Aire

Are veiled in mystery

She is hardly to blame

Barges brimful of coal

And iron-ore look

Just the same.





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‘Leeds for dirt and vulgarity’ -

The canal banks wor like a carpet

O’breet colours -...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry
...A day without rain is like
a day without sunshine...Read more of this...
by Ammons, A R

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