Famous Exhibited Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A first Mute Coming --

...ouse --
A first fair Going --
When the Bells rejoice --

A first Exchange -- of
What hath mingled -- been --
For Lot -- exhibited to
Faith -- alone --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily


Night on The Prairies

...oul—the same old aspirations, and the same content. 

I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited, 
I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of
 other
 globes.

Now, while the great thoughts of space and eternity fill me, I will measure myself by
 them; 
And now, touch’d with the lives of other globes, arrived as far along as those of the
 earth, 
Or waiting to arrive, or pass’d on farther than thos...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

One Crucifixion is recorded -- only --

...One Crucifixion is recorded -- only --
How many be
Is not affirmed of Mathematics --
Or History --

One Calvary -- exhibited to Stranger --
As many be
As persons -- or Peninsulas --
Gethsemane --

Is but a Province -- in the Being's Centre --
Judea --
For Journey -- or Crusade's Achieving --
Too near --

Our Lord -- indeed -- made Compound Witness --
And yet --
There's newer -- nearer Crucifixion
Than That --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Peter

...ngled like an eel
or set up on the forearm like a mouse;
his eyes bisected by pupils of a pin's width,
are flickeringly exhibited, then covered up.
May be? I should have said might have been;
when he has been got the better of in a dream--
as in a fight with nature or with cats, we all know it.
Profound sleep is not with him a fixed illusion.
Springing about with froglike accuracy, with jerky cries
when taken in hand, he is himself again;
to sit caged by the rungs of a domest...Read more of this...
by Moore, Marianne

Picture Dealer

...There were twin artists A. and B.
Who painted pictures two,
And hung them in my galley
For everyone to view;
The one exhibited by A.
The name "A Sphere" did bear,
While strangely brother B's display
Was catalogued: "A Square".

Now although A. (and this is *****)
Could squeeze a pretty tube,
The picture that he called a Sphere
Was blocky as a cube;
While B. (though no hint he disclosed
To pull the public leg)
The Square he placidly exposed
Was oval as an egg.

Thought I: T...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Respondez!

...earth! 
Let a floating cloud in the sky—let a wave of the sea—let growing mint, spinach,
 onions, tomatoes—let these be exhibited as shows, at a great price for admission! 
Let all the men of These States stand aside for a few smouchers! let the few seize on what
 they
 choose! let the rest gawk, giggle, starve, obey!
Let shadows be furnish’d with genitals! let substances be deprived of their genitals!

Let there be wealthy and immense cities—but still through any of them, no...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Rumpelstiltskin

...ugly as a wart.
Little thing, what are you? she cried.
With his tiny no-sex voice he replied:
I am a dwarf.
I have been exhibited on Bond Street
and no child will ever call me Papa.
I have no private life.
If I'm in my cups the whole town knows by breakfast
and no child will ever call me Papa
I am eighteen inches high.
I am no bigger than a partridge.
I am your evil eye
and no child will ever call me Papa.
Stop this Papa foolishness,
she cried. Can you perhaps
spin straw into...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

Song of the Exposition

...here within the walls of all, 
Shall all that forwards perfect human life be started, 
Tried, taught, advanced, visibly exhibited. 

Here shall you trace in flowing operation, 
In every state of practical, busy movement,
The rills of Civilization. 

Materials here, under your eye, shall change their shape, as if by magic; 
The cotton shall be pick’d almost in the very field, 
Shall be dried, clean’d, ginn’d, baled, spun into thread and cloth, before you: 
You shall see hands ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Bride of Abydos

...the Sultan's respectable signature, and is bowstrung with great complacency. In 1810, several of "these presents" were exhibited in the niche of the Seraglio gate: among others, the head of the Pacha of Bagdad, a brave young man, cut off by treachery, after a desperate resistance. 

(9) Clapping of the hands calls the servants. The Turks hate a superfluous expenditure of voice, and they have no bells. 

(10) "Chibouque," the Turkish pipe, of which the amber mouth-piece, and ...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

To a Historian

...YOU who celebrate bygones! 
Who have explored the outward, the surfaces of the races—the life that has
 exhibited itself; 
Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and
 priests; 
I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself, in his own
 rights, 
Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great
 pride of man in himself;)
Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, 
I projec...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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