Famous Pervasive Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Height of Land

...spruces shiver and tremble,
And the stars move a little in their courses.
The ancient disturber of solitude
Breathes a pervasive sigh,
And the soul seems to hear
The gathering of the waters at their sources;
Then quiet ensues and pure starlight and dark;
The region-spirit murmurs in meditation,
The heart replies in exaltation
And echoes faintly like an inland shell
Ghost tremors of the spell;
Thought reawakens and is linked again
With all the welter of the lives of men.
Here...Read more of this...
by Scott, Duncan Campbell


The Nympholept

...essalian woods 
The god's hallooing wake the leafy solitudes; 
I think it was the same: some piercing sense 
Of Deity's pervasive immanence, 
The Life that visible Nature doth indwell 
Grown great and near and all but palpable . . . 
He might not linger, but with winged strides 
Like one pursued, fled down the mountain-sides -- 
Down the long ridge that edged the steep ravine, 
By glade and flowery lawn and upland green, 
And never paused nor felt assured again 
But where the...Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan

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