Famous Gyration Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Enkindled Spring

...ng, this conflagration
Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze
Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration, 
Faces of people streaming across my gaze. 

And I, what fountain of fire am I among 
This leaping combustion of spring? My spirit is tossed
About like a shadow buffeted in the throng 
Of flames, a shadow that’s gone astray, and is lost....Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.


Uriel

...
On the beauty of Uriel; 
In heaven once eminent the god 
Withdrew that hour into his cloud; 
Whether doom'd to long gyration 
In the sea of generation 40 
Or by knowledge grown too bright 
To hit the nerve of feebler sight. 
Straightway a forgetting wind 
Stole over the celestial kind  
And their lips the secret kept 45 
If in ashes the fire-seed slept. 
But now and then truth-speaking things 
Shamed the angels' veiling wings; 
And shrilling from the solar cours...Read more of this...
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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