Famous Entryway Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Sonnets To Orpheus: I

by Rainer Maria Rilke
 A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence!
Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear!
And all things hushed. Yet even in that silence
a new beginning, beckoning, change appeared.

Creatures of stillness crowded from the bright
unbound forest, out of their lairs and nests;
and it was not from any dullness, not
from fear, that they were so quiet in themselves,

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