Famous Emitting Poems by Famous Poets

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

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To Thomas Butts

by William Blake
 TO my friend Butts I write 
My first vision of light, 
On the yellow sands sitting. 
The sun was emitting 
His glorious beams 
From Heaven’s high streams. 
Over sea, over land, 
My eyes did expand 
Into regions of air, 
Away from all care; 
Into regions of fire, 
Remote from desire; 
The light of the morning 
Heaven’s mountains adorning: 
In...Read more of this...

Not Heat Flames up and Consumes

by Walt Whitman
 NOT heat flames up and consumes, 
Not sea-waves hurry in and out, 
Not the air, delicious and dry, the air of the ripe summer, bears lightly along white
 down-balls of
 myriads of seeds, 
Wafted, sailing gracefully, to drop where they may; 
Not these—O none of these, more than the flames of me, consuming, burning for his
 love
 whom I
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The Plough Of Time

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
 Night closed my windows and
The sky became a crystal house
The crystal windows glowed
The moon
shown through them
through the whole house of crystal
A single star beamed down
its crystal cable
and drew a plough through the earth
unearthing bodies clasped together
couples embracing
around the earth
They clung together everywhere
emitting small cries
that did not reach the stars
The crystal earth turned
and the bodies with it
And the sky did...Read more of this...

A Grave

by Marianne Moore
 Man looking into the sea,
taking the view from those who have as much right to it as
 you have to it yourself,
it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing,
but you cannot stand in the middle of this;
the sea has nothing to give but a well excavated grave.
The firs stand in a procession, each with an...Read more of this...

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