Famous Excavated Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Grave

...e 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 emerald turkey—
 foot at the top,
reserved as their contours, saying nothing;
repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of
 the sea;
the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
There are others besides you who have worn that look—
whose expression is no longer a pro...Read more of this...
by Moore, Marianne


At the Top of My voice

...ters,
has licked away consumptives’ spittle.
With the tail of my years behind me,
 I begin to resemble
those monsters,
 excavated dinosaurs.
Comrade life,
 let us
 march faster,
march
 faster through what’s left
 of the five-year plan.
My verse
 has brought me
 no rubles to spare:
no craftsmen have made
 mahogany chairs for my house.
In all conscience,
 I need nothing
except
 a freshly laundered shirt.
When I appear 
 before the CCC
 of the coming
 bright years,
by way of my ...Read more of this...
by Mayakovsky, Vladimir

My Soul

...“A net they have prepared for my steps;
My soul has become bowed down.
They excavated before me a pitfall;
They have fallen into the midst of it.” - Psalm 57:6
...Read more of this...
by Bible, The

The Code

...ot a rustle. 
I guess they thought I'd spiked him in the temple 
Before I buried him, or I couldn't have managed. 
They excavated more. 'Go keep his wife 
Out of the barn.' Someone looked in a window, 
And curse me if he wasn't in the kitchen 
Slumped way down in a chair, with both his feet 
Stuck in the oven, the hottest day that summer. 
He looked so clean disgusted from behind 
There was no one that dared to stir him up, 
Or let him know that he was being looked at. 
Appar...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert

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