Famous Chromatic Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Preamble (A Rough Draft For An Ars Poetica)

...eap 
of moist *******
her nose was
 flattened
against the window-pane 
of dreary Christmases

A white bear
adorned with chromatic moire

dries himself in the midnight sun

Liners

The huge luxury item

Slowly founders
all its lights aglow

and so
sinks the evening-dress ball
into the thousand mirrors 
of the palace hotel

And now
it is I

the thin Columbus of phenomena
alone 
in the front 
of a mirror-paneled wardrobe
full of linen
and locking with a key

The obstinate miner
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by Cocteau, Jean


Song of Myself

...
 feeds upon small crabs; 
Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon; 
Where the katy-did works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well; 
Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves;
Through the salt-lick or orange glade, or under conical firs; 
Through the gymnasium—through the curtain’d saloon—through the
 office or public hall; 
Pleas’d with the native, and pleas’d with the
 foreign—pleas’d with the new and old; 
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by Whitman, Walt

Youth and Art

....

29 No harm! It was not my fault
30 If you never turned your eye's tail up
31 As I shook upon E in alt,
32 Or ran the chromatic scale up:

33 For spring bade the sparrows pair,
34 And the boys and girls gave guesses,
35 And stalls in our street looked rare
36 With bulrush and watercresses.

37 Why did not you pinch a flower
38 In a pellet of clay and fling it?
39 Why did not I put a power
40 Of thanks in a look, or sing it?

41 I did look, sharp as a lynx,
42 (And yet the m...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

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