Famous Dapples Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Morning Song Of Senlin

by Conrad Aiken
 from Senlin: A Biography 


It is morning, Senlin says, and in the morning 
When the light drips through the shutters like the dew, 
I arise, I face the sunrise, 
And do the things my fathers learned to do. 
Stars in the purple dusk above the rooftops 
Pale in a saffron mist and seem to die, 
And I myself on...Read more of this...

A Dedication

by Adam Lindsay Gordon
 They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less 
Of sound than of words,
In lands where bright blossoms are scentless,
And songless bright birds;
Where, with fire and fierce drought on her tresses,
Insatiable Summer oppresses
Sere woodlands and sad wildernesses,
And faint flocks and herds. 
Where in drieariest days, when all dews end,
And all winds are warm,
Wild Winter's large floodgates are loosen'd,
And floods, freed...Read more of this...

Dream Song 123: Daples my floor the eastern sun my house faces north

by John Berryman
 Dapples my floor the eastern sun, my house faces north,
I have nothing to say except that it dapples my floor
and it would dapple me
if I lay on that floor, as-well-forthwith
I have done, trying well to mount a thought
not carelessly

in times forgotten, except by the New York Times
which can't forget. There is always the morgue.
There are men in the morgue.
These...Read more of this...

Ballad of Another Ophelia

by D. H. Lawrence
 Oh the green glimmer of apples in the orchard,
Lamps in a wash of rain! 
Oh the wet walk of my brown hen through the stackyard,
Oh tears on the window pane! 

Nothing now will ripen the bright green apples,
Full of disappointment and of rain, 
Brackish they will taste, of tears, when the yellow dapples
Of autumn tell the withered tale again....Read more of this...

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