Famous Gyrating Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Dalliance of the Eagles The

by Walt Whitman
 SKIRTING the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) 
Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles, 
The rushing amorous contact high in space together, 
The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel, 
Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling, 
Till o’er the river...Read more of this...

To a Locomotive in Winter

by Walt Whitman
 THEE for my recitative! 
Thee in the driving storm, even as now—the snow—the winter-day declining; 
Thee in thy panoply, thy measured dual throbbing, and thy beat convulsive; 
Thy black cylindric body, golden brass, and silvery steel; 
Thy ponderous side-bars, parallel and connecting rods, gyrating, shuttling at thy sides;
Thy metrical, now swelling pant and roar—now tapering in the distance; 
Thy...Read more of this...

To the Man-of-War-Bird

by Walt Whitman
 THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm, 
Waking renew’d on thy prodigious pinions, 
(Burst the wild storm? above it thou ascended’st, 
And rested on the sky, thy slave that cradled thee,) 
Now a blue point, far, far in heaven floating,
As to the light emerging here on deck I watch thee, 
(Myself a speck, a point on the...Read more of this...

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