Get Your Premium Membership

Famous Detach Poems by Famous Poets

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

See also:

by Burns, Robert
...ust like a winkin baudrons,
And aye he catch’d the tither wretch,
 To fry them in his caudrons;
But now his Honour maun detach,
 Wi’ a’ his brimstone squadrons,
 Fast, fast this day.


See, see auld Orthodoxy’s faes
 She’s swingein thro’ the city!
Hark, how the nine-tail’d cat she plays!
 I vow it’s unco pretty:
There, Learning, with his Greekish face,
 Grunts out some Latin ditty;
And Common-sense is gaun, she says,
 To mak to Jamie Beattie
 Her plaint this day.


Bu...Read more of this...



by Aiken, Conrad
...its place.
It is the end of god, each time, each time.

Yet, though the leaves must fall, the galaxies
rattle, detach, and fall, each to his own
perplexed and individual death, Lady Yang
gone with the inkberry's vermilion stalk,
the peony face behind a fan of frost,
the blue-moon eyebrow behind a fan of rain,
beyond recall by any alchemist
or incantation from the Book of Change:
unresumable, as, on Sheepfold Hill,
the fir cone of a thousand years ago:
still, in the l...Read more of this...

by Bryant, William Cullen
...t then; Death should come 
Gently, to one of gentle mould like thee, 
As light winds wandering through groves of bloom 
Detach the delicate blossom from the tree. 
Close thy sweet eyes, calmly, and without pain; 
And we will trust in God to see thee yet again....Read more of this...

by Alighieri, Dante
...foglie 
l'una appresso de l'altra, fin che 'l ramo 
vede a la terra tutte le sue spoglie , 

As, in the autumn, leaves detach themselves, 
first one and then the other, till the bough 
sees all its fallen garments on the ground, 


Aen.VI. 

similemente il mal seme d'Adamo 
gittansi di quel lito ad una ad una, 
per cenni come augel per suo richiamo . 

similarly, the evil seed of Adam 
descended from the shoreline one by one, 
when signaled, as a falcon-called-wi...Read more of this...

by Brautigan, Richard
...ninges were attached to the internal walls of the cranium

so firmly that while sawing the bone around the interior to

detach the bone from the dura the strength of two robust men

was not sufficient. . . . The cerebrum with cerebellum

weighed about six medical pounds. The kidneys were very

large but healthy and the urinary bladder was relatively

small. "

 On May 2, 1824, the body of Trout Fishing in America

left Missolonghi by ship destined to a...Read more of this...



by Lawrence, D. H.
...emane.

    So I came to you,
And twice, after great kisses, I saw
The rim of the moon divinely rise
And strive to detach herself from the raw
    Blackened edge of the skies.

    Strive to escape;
With her whiteness revealing my sunken world
Tall and loftily shadowed. But the moon
Never magnolia-like unfurled
    Her white, her lamp-like shape.

    For you told me no,
And bade me not to ask for the dour
Communion, offering--"a better thing."
So I lay on yo...Read more of this...

by Khayyam, Omar
...The moment I shall fly from death, when, like the
dry leaves, the particles of my body shall detach themselves
from the centers of life, oh, then! with what joy
shall I pass across the universe, as through a sieve,
before the mason comes to sift my own dust....Read more of this...

Dont forget to view our wonderful member Detach poems.


Book: Reflection on the Important Things