Famous Flittered Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Burning Oneself Out

...e can look into the stove tonight
as into a mirror, yes, 

the serrated log, the yellow-blue gaseous core 

the crimson-flittered grey ash, yes.
I know inside my eyelids
and underneath my skin 

Time takes hold of us like a draft
upward, drawing at the heats
in the belly, in the brain 

You told me of setting your hand
into the print of a long-dead Indian
and for a moment, I knew that hand, 

that print, that rock,
the sun producing powerful dreams
A word can do this 

or, as...Read more of this...
by Rich, Adrienne


The Comedian As The Letter C

...440 His trees were planted, his duenna brought 
441 Her prismy blonde and clapped her in his hands, 
442 The curtains flittered and the door was closed. 
443 Crispin, magister of a single room, 
444 Latched up the night. So deep a sound fell down 
445 It was as if the solitude concealed 
446 And covered him and his congenial sleep. 
447 So deep a sound fell down it grew to be 
448 A long soothsaying silence down and down. 
449 The crickets beat their tambours in the ...Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace

The Sonnets To Orpheus: X

...ide
like the eyes of a happily waking shepard
-with silence and bee-suck nettle inside,
from which ecstatic butterflies flittered;

everything that has been wrestled from doubt
I welcome-the mouths that burst open after
long knowledge of what it is to be mute.

Do we know this, my friends, or don't we know this?
Both are formed by the hesitant hour
in the deep calm of the human face....Read more of this...
by Rilke, Rainer Maria

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