Famous Clarified Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Cartographies of Silence

...k you in the face
with naked eyeballs, not letting you turn 

till you, and I who long to make this thing,
were finally clarified together in its stare 


8.

No. Let me have this dust,
these pale clouds dourly lingering, these words 

moving with ferocious accuracy
like the blind child's fingers 

or the newborn infant's mouth
violent with hunger 

No one can give me, I have long ago
taken this method 

whether of bran pouring from the loose-woven sack
or of the bunsen-flame...Read more of this...
by Rich, Adrienne


How Human Nature dotes

...t that a Plot is plumbed
Prospective is extinct --

Prospective is the friend
Reserved for us to know
When Constancy is clarified
Of Curiosity --

Of subjects that resist
Redoubtablest is this
Where go we --
Go we anywhere
Creation after this?...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Hymns Of The Marshes

...cientest perfectest hues
Ever shaming the maidens, -- lily and rose
Confess thee, and each mild flame that glows
In the clarified virginal bosoms of stones that shine,
It is thine, it is thine:

Thou chemist of storms, whether driving the winds a-swirl
Or a-flicker the subtiler essences polar that whirl
In the magnet earth, -- yea, thou with a storm for a heart,
Rent with debate, many-spotted with question, part
From part oft sundered, yet ever a globed light,
Yet ever the ar...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

Isaac and Archibald

...from Tilbury Town.— 
“Magnificent,” said Isaac; and he told 
About the beautiful west wind there was 
Which cooled and clarified the atmosphere. 
“You must have made it with your legs, I guess,”
Said Archibald; and Isaac humored him 
With one of those infrequent smiles of his 
Which he kept in reserve, apparently, 
For Archibald alone. “But why,” said he, 
“Should Providence have cider in the world
If not for such an afternoon as this?” 
And Archibald, with a soft light in h...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Kathleen

...ughed, as proud he led her down below.
"Now you may write by day or night upon our Yukon scene,
For I," he cried, "have clarified the problem of Kathleen.
I thought a lot, then like a shot the remedy I found:
I jest unhitched her rope and switched the loving creature round.
No more her moo will trouble you, you'll sleep right restful now.
Look, Lady, look! - I'm giving you... the tail end of the cow."...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Song of Myself

...
Through me forbidden voices; 
Voice of sexes and lusts—voices veil’d, and I remove the veil; 
Voices indecent, by me clarified and transfigur’d. 

I do not press my fingers across my mouth;
I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart; 
Copulation is no more rank to me than death is. 

I believe in the flesh and the appetites; 
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a
 miracle. 

Divine am I inside and out, and...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Deserted Garden

...

And over plain and far sierra spread
The fulgent rays of fading afternoon,
Showing each utmost peak and watershed
All clarified, each tassel and festoon
Of floating cloud embroidered overhead,
Like lotus-leaves on bluest waters strewn,
Flushing with rose, while all breathes fresh and free
In peace and amplitude and bland tranquillity.

Dear were such evenings to this gentle pair;
Love's tide that launched on with a blast too strong
Sweeps toward the foaming reef, the hidden...Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan

The Symphony

...
Had fluttered down upon that pool of tone
And boatwise dropped o' the convex side
And floated down the glassy tide
And clarified and glorified
The solemn spaces where the shadows bide.
From the warm concave of that fluted note
Somewhat, half song, half odor, forth did float,
As if a rose might somehow be a throat:
"When Nature from her far-off glen
Flutes her soft messages to men,
The flute can say them o'er again;
Yea, Nature, singing sweet and lone,
Breathes through life's...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

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