Famous Lilith Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Another Dark Lady

by Edwin Arlington Robinson
 Think not, because I wonder where you fled,
That I would lift a pin to see you there; 
You may, for me, be prowling anywhere, 
So long as you show not your little head: 
No dark and evil story of the dead
Would leave you less pernicious or less fair—
Not even Lilith, with her famous hair; 
And Lilith was the devil,...Read more of this...

Clavering

by Edwin Arlington Robinson
 I say no more for Clavering 
Than I should say of him who fails 
To bring his wounded vessel home 
When reft of rudder and of sails; 

I say no more than I should say
Of any other one who sees 
Too far for guidance of to-day, 
Too near for the eternities. 

I think of him as I should think...Read more of this...

Sonnets 06: No Rose That In A Garden Ever Grew

by Edna St. Vincent Millay
 No rose that in a garden ever grew,
In Homer's or in Omar's or in mine,
Though buried under centuries of fine
Dead dust of roses, shut from sun and dew
Forever, and forever lost from view,
But must again in fragrance rich as wine
The grey aisles of the air incarnadine
When the old summers surge into a new.
Thus when I swear, "I love with...Read more of this...

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