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Famous Opalescent Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...is as smooth as silk, and I, I fill it to perfection. 
 My wide wake shines, now it is growing dark. I leave a lovely 
opalescent ribbon: I know this. 
 But O! I am too big. I feel it. Pity me. 
 If and when I reach the rock, I shall go into a certain crack 
there for the night. The waterfall below will vibrate through 
my shell and body all night long. In that steady pulsing I can 
rest. All night I shall be like a sleeping ear....Read more of this...
by Bishop, Elizabeth



...e world with his tripod

For strangeness au naturel, got sunset to fill them. 

It's not comfortable, a double helix of opalescent fire 

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Wrapping round you, swishing your bark

Down cotton you can't see,

On which a sculptor planned his icicles, 

Working all day for that Mesopotamian magic

Of last light before the dark

In a suspended helter-skelter, lit

By almost horizontal rays

Making a mist-carousel from the House of Diamond,

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A spiral of Pepsodent darkening to...Read more of this...
by Padel, Ruth
...s disband 
And sunset opens o'er the humid land, 
Shows thy veiled immanence in orient skies, -- 
Long as pale mist and opalescent dyes 
Hung on far isle or vanishing mountain-crest, 
Fields of remote enchantment can suggest 
So sweet to wander in it matters nought, 
They hold no place but in impassioned thought, 
Long as one draught from a clear sky may be 
A scented luxury; 
Be thou my worship, thou my sole desire, 
Thy paths my pilgrimage, my sense a lyre 
Aeolian for thin...Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan
...d singing early;
Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing;
Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees;
I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,
Like midsummer moths, and honied words like bees,
Gilded and sticky, with a little sting....Read more of this...
by Wylie, Elinor
...y's prow.

That Loveliness whose being sun and star,
Green Earth and dawn and amber evening robe,
That lamp whereof the opalescent globe
The season's emulative splendors are,

That veiled divinity whose beams transpire 
From every pore of universal space,
As the fair soul illumes the lovely face---
That was his guest, his passion, his desire.

His heart the love of Beauty held as hides 
One gem most pure a casket of pure gold. 
It was too rich a lesser thing to bold;
It was n...Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan



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