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Famous Weekdays Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...e torn fish-nets. 

A small bus comes along, in up-and-down rushes, 
packed with people, even to its step. 
(On weekdays with groceries, spare automobile parts, and pump parts, 
but today only two preachers extra, one carrying his frock coat on a
 hanger.) 
It passes the closed roadside stand, the closed schoolhouse, 
where today no flag is flying 
from the rough-adzed pole topped with a white china doorknob. 
It stops, and a man carrying a bay gets off, 
clim...Read more of this...
by Bishop, Elizabeth



...the full price, 
That was requir'd to make us gay, 
And fit for Paradise. 

Thou art a day of mirth: 
And where the weekdays trail on ground, 
Thy flight is higher, as thy birth. 
O let me take thee at the bound, 
Leaping with thee from sev'n to sev'n, 
Till that we both, being toss'd from earth, 
Fly hand in hand to heav'n!...Read more of this...
by Herbert, George

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry