Famous Covertly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Drum-Taps

...ps! you Mannahatta! 
Old matron of this proud, friendly, turbulent city!
Often in peace and wealth you were pensive, or covertly frown’d amid all your
 children; 
But now you smile with joy, exulting old Mannahatta!...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


In a Churchyard

...en, 

Finding at once the wild supposed bloom, 
Or in the imagined cave 
Some pulse of crystal staving off the gloom
As covertly as phosphorus in a grave.

Void notions proper to a buried head! 
Beneath these tombstones here 
Unseenness fills the sockets of the dead, 
Whatever to their souls may now appear; 

And who but those unfathomably deaf
Who quiet all this ground
Could catch, within the ear's diminished clef, 
A music innocent of time and sound? 

What do the living he...Read more of this...
by Wilbur, Richard

Overture To A Dance Of Locomotives

...that rocks 
to and fro, under the domed ceiling, 
across and across from pale 
earthcolored walls of bare limestone. 

Covertly the hands of a great clock 
go round and round! Were they to 
move quickly and at once the whole 
secret would be out and the shuffling 
of all ants be done forever. 

A leaning pyramid of sunlight, narrowing 
out at a high window, moves by the clock: 
disaccordant hands straining out from 
a center: inevitable postures infinitely 
repeated— 
 two—t...Read more of this...
by Williams, William Carlos (WCW)

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