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Famous Avatars Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Whitman, Walt
...see the falling of the Ganges over the high rim of Saukara.

I see the place of the idea of the Deity incarnated by avatars in human forms; 
I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth—oracles, sacrificers, brahmins,
 sabians, lamas, monks, muftis, exhorters; 
I see where druids walked the groves of Mona—I see the mistletoe and vervain; 
I see the temples of the deaths of the bodies of Gods—I see the old signifiers. 

I see Christ once more eating the b...Read more of this...



by Aiken, Conrad
...> . . .
'By the clear waters where once I died,
In the calm evening bright with stars,
One among numberless avatars,
I wedded a mortal, a mortal bride,
And lay on the stones and gave my flesh,
And entered the hunger of him I loved.
How shall I ever escape this mesh
Or be from my lover's body removed?'
Dead leaves stream through the hurrying air
And the maenads dance with flying hair.

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The priests with hooves, the lovers with horns,
Rise in the ...Read more of this...

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