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Famous Yolks Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...half-cut-down, a pasty costly-made,
Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay,
Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks
Imbedded and injellied; last, with these,
A flask of cider from his father’s vats,
Prime, which I knew; and so we sat and eat
And talk’d old matters over; who was dead,
Who married, who was like to be, and how
The races went, and who would rent the hall:
Then touch’d upon the game, how scarce it was
This season; glancing thence, discuss’d the farm,
The...Read more of this...



by Piercy, Marge
...s wise and wicked eyes, 
yellow as a hill of daffodils, 
yellow as dandelions by the highway, 
yellow as butter and egg yolks, 
yellow as a school bus stopping you, 
yellow as a slicker in a downpour. 

Here is my bouquet, here is a sing 
song of all the things you make 
me think of, here is oblique 
praise for the height and depth 
of you and the width too. 
Here is my box of new crayons at your feet. 

Green as mint jelly, green 
as a frog on a lily pad twanging...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...e hunger that crosses the bridge between. 

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The cloth laps a first sweet eating and drinking, 
Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripen’d; 
The white teeth stay, and the boss-tooth advances in darkness, 
And liquor is spill’d on lips and bosoms by touching glasses, and the best liquor
 afterward.

9
I descend my western course, my sinews are flaccid, 
Perfume and youth course through me, and I am their wake. 

It is my face yellow and...Read more of this...

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