Famous Immune Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Atoll

...defile,
Far-flung, forgotten, lost.

And here I dwell, where none may tell
Me tales of mortal strife;
Let millions die, immune am I,
And radiant with life.
No echo comes of evil drums,
To vex my dawns divine;
Aloof, alone I hold my throne,
And Majesty is mine.

Ghost ships pass by, and glad am I
They make no sign to me.
The green corn springs, the gilt vine clings,
The net is in the sea.
My paradise around me lies,
Remote from wrath and wrong;
My isle is clean, unsought, unse...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Avons Harvest

...was. 
The last without the first will be enough 
For the newspapers and the undertaker; 
Yet if we doctors were not all immune
From death, disease, and curiosity, 
My diagnosis would be sorry for me. 
He died, you know, because he was afraid— 
And he had been afraid for a long time; 
And we who knew him well would all agree
To fancy there was rather more than fear. 
The door was locked inside—they broke it in 
To find him—but she heard him when it came. 
There are no signs of...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Boo to Buddha

...fiercely fresh,
Your flesh flies fervent to my flesh.

What sage can dare impugn
Man's immortality?
Our godhead swims, immune
From death and destiny.
Ignored the bubble in the flow
Of love eighteen short years ago!

Time -I embrace all time
As my arm rings your waist.
Space -you surpass, sublime,
As, taking me, we taste
Omnipotence, sense slaying sense,
Soul slaying soul, omniscience....Read more of this...
by Crowley, Aleister

Encounter

...at swept a tree like fire
And gathered it barehanded and brought it home
For color, seldom gathered it again.

Some are immune and some have thought they were
And some, ever so cautiously with gloves,
Finding that it grew to near their homes,
Have tried to root it out and have succeeded

Except that something from the vine fastened
Upon their flesh and burned, and in a year
Or two the vine itself was there again,
Glossy and green and smooth and innocent.

My neighbor's cow gr...Read more of this...
by Francis, Robert

Flying at Forty

...er
I would not undo
for all the dope
in California.

Fear was my element,
fear my contagion.
I swam in it
till I became
immune.
The plane takes off
& I laugh aloud.
Call me courageous.

I am still alive....Read more of this...
by Jong, Erica


Insensibility

...should be as stones.
Wretched are they, and mean
With paucity that never was simplicity.
By choice they made themselves immune
To pity and whatever mourns in man
Before the last sea and the hapless stars;
Whatever mourns when many leave these shores;
Whatever shares
The eternal reciprocity of tears....Read more of this...
by Owen, Wilfred

Insomniac

...ry.
His forehead is bumpy as a sack of rocks.
Memories jostle each other for face-room like obsolete film stars.

He is immune to pills: red, purple, blue --
How they lit the tedium of the protracted evening!
Those sugary planets whose influence won for him
A life baptized in no-life for a while,
And the sweet, drugged waking of a forgetful baby.
Now the pills are worn-out and silly, like classical gods.
Their poppy-sleepy colors do him no good.

His head is a little interior...Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia

Knowledge

...
Total knowledge is annihilation 
Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel 
The world sensed only through senses 
And immune to the knowledge without feeling. 
...Read more of this...
by Stojanovic, Dejan

Lui Et Elle

...ool he looks in this scuffle.

And how he feels it!
The lonely rambler, the stoic, dignified stalker through chaos,
The immune, the animate,
Enveloped in isolation,
Fore-runner.
Now look at him!

Alas, the spear is through the side of his isolation.
His adolescence saw him crucified into sex,
Doomed, in the long crucifixion of desire, to seek his consummation beyond himself.
Divided into passionate duality,
He, so finished and immune, now broken into desirous fragmentariness,...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

Old Trails

...one else; 
I haven’t failed; I’ve merely not achieved.” 

Whether he knew or not, he laughed and dined 
With more of an immune regardlessness 
Of pits before him and of sands behind 
Than many a child at forty would confess; 

And after, when the bells in Boris rang 
Their tumult at the Metropolitan, 
He rocked himself, and I believe he sang. 
“God lives,” he crooned aloud, “and I’m the man!” 

He was. And even though the creature spoiled 
All prophecies, I cherish his acclai...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

The Gift of God

...so great
Among the favoured of the Lord
That she may scarcely bear the weight
Of her bewildering reward.

As one apart, immune, alone,
Or featured for the shining ones,
And like to none that she has known
Of other women's other sons -
The firm fruition of her need,
He shines anointed; and he blurs
Her vision, till it seems indeed
A sacrilege to call him hers.

She fears a little for so much
Of what is best, and hardly dares
To think of him as one to touch
With aches, indignit...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Vespers

...n our understanding of
that term. You who do not discriminate
between the dead and the living, who are, in consequence,
immune to foreshadowing, you may not know
how much terror we bear, the spotted leaf,
the red leaves of the maple falling
even in August, in early darkness: I am responsible
for these vines....Read more of this...
by Gluck, Louise

Yet Do I Marvel

...ruit, declare
If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus
To struggle up a never-ending stair.
Inscrutable His ways are, and immune
To catechism by a mind too strewn
With petty cares to slightly understand
What awful brain compels His awful hand.
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:
To make a poet black, and bid him sing!...Read more of this...
by Cullen, Countee

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