Famous Ferments Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Ferments poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous ferments poems. These examples illustrate what a famous ferments poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...a mirror out of mud and straw?
Yet clean away the mud and straw,
and a mirror might be revealed. Until the juice ferments a while in the cask,
it isn’t wine. If you wish your heart to be bright,
you must do a little work. My King addressed the soul of my flesh:
You return just as you left.
Where are the traces of my gifts? We know that alchemy transforms copper into gold.
This Sun doesn’t want a crown or robe from God’s grace.
He is a hat to a hundred bal...Read more of this...
by
Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad
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It's not so much that she steps out
of the small body enclosing her,
but that all she carries in herself
frolics and ferments.
It's this dress that she'll remember
later in a sweet surrender;
when her whole life is full of risks,
the little red dress will always seem right....Read more of this...
by
Rilke, Rainer Maria
...sh it in some sharp Essay,
But your grand indiscretion bids me stay,
And turns my Tide of Ink another way.
What rage ferments in your degen'rate mind,
To make you rail at Reason, and Mankind?
Blest glorious Man! to whom alone kind Heav'n,
An everlasting Soul has freely giv'n;
Whom his great Maker took such care to make,
That from himself he did the Image take;
And this fair frame, in shining Reason drest,
To dignifie his Nature, above Beast.
Reason, by whose aspiri...Read more of this...
by
Wilmot, John
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