Famous Confessionals Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Confessionals poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous confessionals poems. These examples illustrate what a famous confessionals poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Lowell, Amy
...crucifixes
There is a meeting of hands
Reaching from black mantles.
Sighing embraces, bold investigations,
Hide in confessionals,
Sheltered by the shuffling of feet.
Gorgeous -- barbaric
In its mail of jewels and gold,
Saint Mark's looks down at the swarm of black masks;
And outside in the palace gardens brown leaves fall,
Flutter,
Fall.
Brown,
And yellow streaked with brown.
Blue-black, the sky over Venice,
With a pricking of yellow stars.
There is no mo...Read more of this...
by
Larkin, Philip
...Closed like confessionals, they thread
Loud noons of cities, giving back
None of the glances they absorb.
Light glossy grey, arms on a plaque,
They come to rest at any kerb:
All streets in time are visited.
Then children strewn on steps or road,
Or women coming from the shops
Past smells of different dinners, see
A wild white face that overtops
Red s...Read more of this...
by
Tebb, Barry
...we sat in the dark
Square of the church,
The footsteps of penitents
Echoing, Christ bleeding,
Candles burning, the confessionals
Closed.
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In the attic were a hundred pre-war
‘Picture Posts’ with sepia prints
Of Boer War soldiers and pyramids
Of cannon balls stacked by their gun:
“Make war, not love”, the motto said,
Hanging over the double bed
And I was bred to defeat
As every growling dog knows
But no child in the streets
Ever fought another,
We...Read more of this...
by
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
...r>
Like rooks that haunt Ravenna's groves of pine
.
The hovering echoes fly from tomb to tomb.
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From the confessionals I hear arise
.
Rehearsals of forgotten tragedies,
.
And lamentations from the crypts below;
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And then a voice celestial that begins
.
With the pathetic words, "Although your sins
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As scarlet be," and ends with "as the snow."
IV.Written May 5, 1867.4.
With snow-white veil and garments as of flame,...Read more of this...
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