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Famous Curl Up Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Frost, Robert
...pting that they differ in their mountains.
The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight;
New Hampshire mountains Curl up in a coil.

I had been coming to New Hampshire mountains.
And here I am and what am I to say?
Here first my theme becomes embarrassing.
Emerson said, "The God who made New Hampshire
Taunted the lofty land with little men."
Anotner Massachusetts poet said, 
"I go no more to summer in New Hampshire.
I've given up my summer place in ...Read more of this...



by Morris, William
...ck tick, tick, 

"To my unhappy pulse, that beat right through
My eager body; while I laughed out loud,
And let my lips curl up at false or true, 

"Seemed cold and shallow without any cloud.
Behold my judges, then the cloths were brought;
While I was dizzied thus, old thoughts would crowd, 

"Belonging to the time ere I was bought
By Arthur's great name and his little love;
Must I give up for ever then, I thought, 

"That which I deemed would ever round me move
Glorifyin...Read more of this...

by Verhaeren, Emile
...
Upon the banks, the skins of wet
Black ooze-heaps nightly poison sweat.
And the mists are their fleeces light
That curl up to the houses' height.


In their dark boats, where nothing stirs,
Not even the red-flamed torch that blurs
With halos huge, as if of blood.
The thick felt of the mist's white hood,
Death with his silence seals the sere
Old fishermen of madness here.


The isolated, they abide
Deep in the mist—still side by side.
But seeing one another n...Read more of this...

by Clare, John
...shudders out of sight

Waves trough—rebound—and fury boil again
Like plunging monsters rising underneath
Who at the top curl up a shaggy main
A moment catching at a surer breath
Then plunging headlong down and down—and on
Each following boil the shadow of the last
And other monsters rise when those are gone
Crest their fringed waves—plunge onward and are past
- The chill air comes around me ocean blea
From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread
Strange birds like snow spots o...Read more of this...

by Sexton, Anne
...imes now
and wonder if I am becoming her.
My shoes turn up like a jester's.
Clumps of my hair, as I write this,
curl up individually like toes.
I am shoveling the children out,
scoop after scoop.
Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.
Maybe I am becoming a hermit,
opening the door for only
a few special animals?
Maybe my skull is too crowded
and it has no opening through which
to feed it soup?
Maybe I have plugged up my ...Read more of this...



by Wakoski, Diane
...cloudy semen
rubbed shiningly over the surface
will be used to develop their images.

 on the desert
 the porpoises curl up,
 their skeleton teeth are bared by
 parched lips;
 her sleeping feet
 trod on scarabs,
 holding the names of the dead
 tight in the steady breathing.

 This man and woman have married
 and travel reciting
 chanting
 names of missing objects.

 They enter a pyramid.
 A black butterfly covers the doorway
like a cobweb,
folds around her bod...Read more of this...

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