Famous Cowrie Poems by Famous Poets

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

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"Love Lightly"

by Adela Florence Cory Nicolson
   Rose-colour
   Rose Pink am I, the colour gleams and glows
     In many a flower; her lips, those tender doors
   By which, in time of love, love's essence flows
     From him to her, are dyed in delicate Rose.
   Mine is the earliest Ruby light...Read more of this...

Shells

by Kathleen Raine
 Reaching down arm-deep into bright water 
I gathered on white sand under waves 
Shells, drifted up on beaches where I alone 
Inhabit a finite world of years and days. 
I reached my arm down a myriad years 
To gather treasure from the yester-milliennial sea-floor, 
Held in my fingers forms shaped on the day of creation. 

Building their beauty in...Read more of this...

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