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Famous Askant Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...lf and all drowsing? 
What deepening twilight! scum floating atop of the waters! 
Who are they, as bats and night-dogs, askant in the Capitol? 
What a filthy Presidentiad! (O south, your torrid suns! O north, your arctic freezings!) 
Are those really Congressmen? are those the great Judges? is that the President?
Then I will sleep awhile yet—for I see that These States sleep, for reasons; 
(With gathering murk—with muttering thunder and lambent shoots, we all duly awake, 
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by Whitman, Walt



...e night. 

While my sight that was bound in my eyes unclosed,
As to long panoramas of visions. 

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I saw askant the armies; 
And I saw, as in noiseless dreams, hundreds of battle-flags; 
Borne through the smoke of the battles, and pierc’d with missiles, I saw them, 
And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody;
And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) 
And the staffs all splinter’d and broken. 

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by Whitman, Walt

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