Famous Correspond Poems by Famous Poets

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

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As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario's Shores

...hese States are the amplest poem, 
Here is not merely a nation, but a teeming nation of nations,
Here the doings of men correspond with the broadcast doings of the day and night, 
Here is what moves in magnificent masses, careless of particulars, 
Here are the roughs, beards, friendliness, combativeness, the Soul loves, 
Here the flowing trains—here the crowds, equality, diversity, the Soul loves. 

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Land of lands, and bards to corroborate!
Of them, standing among them, one ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


Constructions/reconstructions

...I

Living in a land

Where only the dying correspond

I am borne on the wings of love



II

I cannot join in a poem

The interstices of clouds

I watched a lapwing

Hover in the air

Glide in an arc

Veer from the sheer cliff



III

Who shall I meet

On this journey to eternity?

Alone and yet not alone

The dust of immortality

Lies in strangers’ eyes

Girls in all the beauty

Of their youth, old...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

Correspondences

...and confound
In a unity of darkness and quiet
Deep as the night, clear as daylight
The perfumes, the colors, the sounds correspond.

The perfume is as fresh as the flesh of an infant
Sweet as an oboe, green as a prairie
—And the others, corrupt, rich and triumphant

Enlightened by the things of infinity,
Like amber, musk, benzoin and incense
That sing, transporting the soul and sense....Read more of this...
by Baudelaire, Charles

In The Valley Of The Elwy

...oods, waters, meadows, combes, vales,
All the air things wear that build this world of Wales;
 Only the inmate does not correspond:
God, lover of souls, swaying considerate scales,
Complete thy creature dear O where it fails,
 Being mighty a master, being a father and fond....Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Paradise Lost: Book 07

...might erect 
His stature, and upright with front serene 
Govern the rest, self-knowing; and from thence 
Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven, 
But grateful to acknowledge whence his good 
Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes 
Directed in devotion, to adore 
And worship God Supreme, who made him chief 
Of all his works: therefore the Omnipotent 
Eternal Father (for where is not he 
Present?) thus to his Son audibly spake. 
Let us make now Man in our image, Man 
...Read more of this...
by Milton, John


Paradise Lost: Book 09

...admiration; and with me 
Persuasively hath so prevailed, that I 
Have also tasted, and have also found 
The effects to correspond; opener mine eyes, 
Dim erst, dilated spirits, ampler heart, 
And growing up to Godhead; which for thee 
Chiefly I sought, without thee can despise. 
For bliss, as thou hast part, to me is bliss; 
Tedious, unshared with thee, and odious soon. 
Thou therefore also taste, that equal lot 
May join us, equal joy, as equal love; 
Lest, thou not tasting...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Pickthorn Manor

...lay there, and the fish hung just beyond. He 
seemed uncertain what more he should do.
He drew back, pulled the rod to correspond, Tossed it and caught 
it; every time he threw,
He caught it nearer to the point. At last The fish 
was near enough to touch. He paused.
Eunice knew well the craft -- "What's 
got the thing!" She cried. "What can have caused 
--
Where is his net? The moment will be past.
The fish will wriggle free." She stopped aghast.
He turned and bowed. One arm...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

Poor Kid

...Mumsie and Dad are raven dark
 And I am lily blonde.
''Tis strange,' I once heard nurse remark,
 'You do not correspond.'
And yet they claim me as their own,
 Born of their flesh and bone.

To doubt their parenthood I dread,
 But now to girlhood grown,
The thought is haunting in my head
 That I am not their own:
If so, my radiant bloom of youth
 Would wither in the truth.

'Twould give me anguish deep to know
 A fondling babe was I;
And that a maid in wedless woe
 ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Princess (part 2)

...urselves, 
Perused the matting: then an officer 
Rose up, and read the statutes, such as these: 
Not for three years to correspond with home; 
Not for three years to cross the liberties; 
Not for three years to speak with any men; 
And many more, which hastily subscribed, 
We entered on the boards: and 'Now,' she cried, 
'Ye are green wood, see ye warp not. Look, our hall! 
Our statues!--not of those that men desire, 
Sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode, 
Nor stunted squaws ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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