Best poems about — Storgy
August.
Four poems, ranked.
4 of the finest public-domain poems about august, ranked by thematic depth. Scored by Storgy's classification model against the rest of the corpus, and re-indexed weekly as new works enter the canon.
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01
August
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“This short poem features August speaking for itself, sharing the origin of its name and what it represents. August reveals that it was named after the Roman Emp…”
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02
The Night of the Lion
Alfred Noyes · 1922
“Written just before Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914, this poem envisions the British Empire as a mighty lion stirring from restless slumber in re…”
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03
On Launching Some Bottles Filled with Knowledge into the Bristol Channel
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Shelley tosses bottles filled with political pamphlets into the Bristol Channel, wishing the sea will deliver them to someone eager to champion freedom. The poe…”
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