Famous Yorktown Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Yorktown poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous yorktown poems. These examples illustrate what a famous yorktown poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
See also:
...g,
Lengthening out the farewell to me off to the war with the British,
And then the long, hard years down to the day of Yorktown.
And then my search for Rebecca,
Finding her at last in Virginia,
Two children dead in the meanwhile.
We went by oxen to Tennessee,
Thence after years to Illinois,
At last to Spoon River.
We cut the buffalo grass,
We felled the forests,
We built the school houses, built the bridges,
Leveled the roads and tilled the fields
Alone with poverty, scourge...Read more of this...
by
Masters, Edgar Lee
Dont forget to view our wonderful member Yorktown poems.