Famous Awareness Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Dream Of Whitman Paraphrased Recognized And Made More Vivid By Renoir

...swam with the wondrous unconsciousness
Of their youth and beauty
In the full spontaneity and summer of the fieshes of
 awareness
Heightened, intensified and softened
By the soft and the silk of the waters
Blooded made ready by the energy set afire by the
 nakedness of the body,

Electrified: deified: undenied.

A young man of thirty years beholds them from a distance.
He lives in the dungeon of ten million dollars.
He is rich, handsome and empty standing behind the linen cur...Read more of this...
by Schwartz, Delmore


Exposed On The Cliffs Of The Heart

...ut the one who knows? Ah, he began to know
and is quiet now, exposed on the cliffs of the heart.
While, with their full awareness,
many sure-footed mountain animals pass
or linger. And the great sheltered birds flies, slowly
circling, around the peak's pure denial.--But
without a shelter, here on the cliffs of the heart......Read more of this...
by Rilke, Rainer Maria

Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding

...st, the rending pain of re-enactment
 Of all that you have done, and been; the shame
 Of motives late revealed, and the awareness
Of things ill done and done to others' harm
 Which once you took for exercise of virtue.
 Then fools' approval stings, and honour stains.
From wrong to wrong the exasperated spirit
 Proceeds, unless restored by that refining fire
 Where you must move in measure, like a dancer.'
The day was breaking. In the disfigured street
 He left me, with a kind...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

Song of Love XXIV

...
Gifts alone do not entice me; 
Parting does not discourage me; 
Poverty does not chase me; 
Jealousy does not prove my awareness; 
Madness does not evidence my presence. 


Oh seekers, I am Truth, beseeching Truth; 
And your Truth in seeking and receiving 
And protecting me shall determine my 
Behavior....Read more of this...
by Gibran, Kahlil

The Creation I

...t would desert he forever upon her first sigh of earthly satisfaction, and a sweetness that would vanish with her first awareness of flattery. 

And He gave her wisdom from heaven to lead to the all-righteous path, and placed in the depth of her heart and eye that sees the unseen, and created in he an affection and goodness toward all things. He dressed her with raiment of hopes spun by the angels of heaven from the sinews of the rainbow. And He cloaked her in the shadow of c...Read more of this...
by Gibran, Kahlil


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