Famous Carousel Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Carousel poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous carousel poems. These examples illustrate what a famous carousel poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...s a little child ye cannot enter the kingdom
of poetry.
Hence the poet must be able to become a tiger like Blake; a
carousel like Rilke.
Hence he must be all things to be free, for all impersonations
a doormat and a monument
to all situations possible or actual
The cuckold, the cuckoo, the conqueror, and the coxcomb.
It is to him in the zoo that the zoo cries out and the hyena:
"Hello, take off your hat, king of the beasts, and be seated,
Mr. Bones."
And hence the poe...Read more of this...
by
Schwartz, Delmore
...ars.
The moor stretched
Away to the feast’s
Imbroglio of giant
Wheels and ghost-rides,
Shies and penny-runs
And carousels.
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We rose in a gondola
Holding hands under
A canopy of steel.
Leeds lay before us
The wind baffled our cheeks
The gondola stopped
In its arc.
In the midnight car
We kissed and you
Drew my hand
To the bud
Of your breast
And touched
Your lip
With a finger-tip.
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On the way home
You had to wee
And told me not
T...Read more of this...
by
Tebb, Barry
...n,
Baskets of olives and lemons
Again on the vendors' shoulders.
I thought of the Campo dei Fiori
In Warsaw by the sky-carousel
One clear spring evening
To the strains of a carnival tune.
The bright melody drowned
The salvos from the ghetto wall,
And couples were flying
High in the cloudless sky.
At times wind from the burning
Would driff dark kites along
And riders on the carousel
Caught petals in midair.
That same hot wind
Blew open the skirts of the girls
And the crowds ...Read more of this...
by
Milosz, Czeslaw
...mian magic
Of last light before the dark
In a suspended helter-skelter, lit
By almost horizontal rays
Making a mist-carousel from the House of Diamond,
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A spiral of Pepsodent darkening to the shadowfrost
Of cedars at the Great Gate of Kiev.
Why it makes me think of opening the door to you
I can't imagine. No one could be less
Of an icicle. But there it is -
Having put me down in felt-tip
In the mystical appointment book,
You shoot that quick
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Inquiry-glance,...Read more of this...
by
Padel, Ruth
...ganizes everything
Around the polestar of your eyes which are empty,
Know nothing, dream but reveal nothing.
I feel the carousel starting slowly
And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books,
Photographs of friends, the window and the trees
Merging in one neutral band that surrounds
Me on all sides, everywhere I look.
And I cannot explain the action of leveling,
Why it should all boil down to one
Uniform substance, a magma of interiors.
My guide in these matters is your se...Read more of this...
by
Ashbery, John
...ho tugs my sleeve demanding "peseta" from every passing stranger:
I can still smell the hotdog counter and the pretzel carousel.
I loved the sound of birds as I entered, the watery bubbles
from aquarium filters over by the plants.
If I imagined like a child walking with my mother,
the store part rainforest, and closed my eyes
I was in som tropical country:
that feathered blue against the orange of forgotten sunsets
after the rain-washed streets erased the footprints
of tired...Read more of this...
by
Hillringhouse, Mark
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