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Famous Worldwide Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
...Chief in thy generation born of men,
Whom English praise acclaimed as English-born,
With eyes that matched the worldwide eyes of morn
For gleam of tears or laughter, tenderest then
When thoughts of children warmed their light, or when
Reverence of age with love and labor worn,
Or godlike pity fired with godlike scorn,
Shot through them flame that winged thy swift live pen:
Where stars and suns that we behold not burn,
Higher even thatn here, though highest was here t...Read more of this...



by Masefield, John
...craves. 
So, since we communed here, our bones have been 
Nearer, perhaps, than they again will be, 
Earth and the worldwide battle lie between, 
Death lies between, and friend-destroying sea. 
Yet here, a year ago, we talked and stood 
As I stnad now, with pulses beating blood. 

I saw her like a shadow on the sky 
In the last light, a blur upon the sea, 
Then the gale's darkness put the shadow by, 
But from one grave that island talked to me; 
And, in the midni...Read more of this...

by Blok, Aleksandr
...O bitter,bitter pain, 
Sweet living! 
A torn overcoat 
an Austrian gun! 

-To get the bourgeosie 
We'll start a fire 
a worldwide fire, and drench it 
in blood- 
The good Lord bless us! 


-O you bitter bitterness, 
boring boredom, 
deadly boredom. 

This is how I will 
spend my time. 

This is how I will 
scratch my head, 

munch on seeds, 
some sunflower seeds, 

play with my knife 
play with my knife. 

You bourgeosie, fly as a sparrow! 
I'll drink your blood, ...Read more of this...

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