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Famous Closure Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
...song, 
 Is it well now where love can do no wrong, 
Where stingless pleasure has no foam or fang 
 Behind the unopening closure of her lips? 
 Is it not well where soul from body slips 
And flesh from bone divides without a pang 
 As dew from flower-bell drips? 

It is enough; the end and the beginning 
 Are one thing to thee, who art past the end. 
 O hand unclasp'd of unbeholden friend, 
For thee no fruits to pluck, no palms for winning, 
 No triumph and no labour and n...Read more of this...



by Scott, Duncan Campbell
...
"Avis--Love!"
Like the mavis bird
Calling, calling lonelily
From the eerie grove.

Then she heard within the vast 
Closure of the spell,
Rolled and moulded into one 
Rounded swell,
All the sounds that ever were 
Uttered underneath the sun,
Heard in heaven or hell.

In the arras moved the wind,
And the window cloth
Rippled like a serpent barred,
Gray with wrath;
In the brazier gold
The wan ghost of a rose charred
Fluttered like a moth.

Tranquil lay her darkened e...Read more of this...

by Murray, Les
...mprisoned. Caught as in a mirror

that he attracted, being in the world as poetry
is in the poem, a law against its closure.
There'll always be religion around while there is poetry

or a lack of it. Both are given, and intermittent,
as the action of those birds - crested pigeon, rosella parrot -
who fly with wings shut, then beating, and again shut....Read more of this...

by Shakespeare, William
...ar thief.
Thee have I not locked up in any chest,
Save where thou art not—though I feel thou art—
Within the gentle closure of my breast,
From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part;
And even thence thou wilt be stol'n, I fear,
For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear....Read more of this...

by Shakespeare, William
...r thief.
Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,
Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art,
Within the gentle closure of my breast,
From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part;
And even thence thou wilt be stol'n, I fear,
For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear....Read more of this...



by Ayres, Pam
...some part of me.
The roots will not disturb me as they wend their peaceful way
To build the fine and bountiful, from closure and decay.
To seek their small requirements so that when their work is done
I’ll be tall and standing strongly in the beauty of the sun.

© Pam Ayres 2012
Official Website
http://pamayres.com/...Read more of this...

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