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Famous Orchestral Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...e tram they took was full of Roaring Boys 
Announcing the world's ruin and Judgment Day; 
The sky blared with its grand orchestral voice 
The Gotterdammerung of Henry Clay. 

But in her quiet room they were alone. 
There, towering over Henry by a head, 
She stood and took her clothes off one by one, 
And then she stretched herself upon the bed. 

Her bulk of beauty, her stupendous grace 
Challenged the lion heart in his puny dust. 
Proudly his Moment looked hi...Read more of this...
by Hope, Alec Derwent (A D)



...In a wilderness, in some orchestral swing
through trees, with a wind playing all the high notes,
and the prospect of a string bass inside the wood,
I, or someone like me, had a kind of vision.
As the person on the ground moved, bursting halos
topped first one tree, then another and another,
till the work of sight was forced to go lower
into a dark lair of fallen logs and fungi.<...Read more of this...
by Bell, Marvin

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