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Famous Workhorse Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...s, barking at a coon in a treetop at midnight, chewing a bone, chasing his tail round a corncrib,
The phantom of an old workhorse taking the steel point of a plow across a forty-acre field in spring, hitched to a harrow in summer, hitched to a wagon among cornshocks in fall,
These phantoms come into the talk and wonder of people on the front porch of a farmhouse late summer nights.
“The shapes that are gone are here,” said an old man with a cob pipe in his teeth one night in ...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl



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