Famous Rafael Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Celebration

...rue but the plant is small. 

This falling spray of snow-flakes is 
a handful of dead Februaries 
prayed into flower by Rafael Arevalo Martinez 
of Guatemala. 
 Here's that old friend who 
went by my side so many years: this full, fragile 
head of veined lavender. Oh that April 
that we first went with our stiff lusts 
leaving the city behind, out to the green hill— 
May, they said she was. A hand for all of us: 
this branch of blue butterflies tied to this stem. 

June is a ...Read more of this...
by Williams, William Carlos (WCW)


Andrea del Sarto

...tretch--
(Out of me, out of me! And wherefore out? 
Had you enjoined them on me, given me soul, 
We might have risen to Rafael, I and you! 
Nay, Love, you did give all I asked, I think--
More than I merit, yes, by many times.
But had you--oh, with the same perfect brow, 
And perfect eyes, and more than perfect mouth,
And the low voice my soul hears, as a bird 
The fowler's pipe, and follows to the snare --
Had you, with these the same, but brought a mind!
Some women do so. Ha...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

El Cafetal

...I came with the rising sun and I've brought
nothing but two eyes, all I have,
simply two eyes, for the harvest
of grief that's hidden in this jungle
like the coffee shrubs. Fewer,
but they fling themselves upwards, untouchable,
are the trees that invidiously shut out
the light from this overwhelming indigence.
With my machete I go through the paths
of the ...Read more of this...
by Guillen, Rafael

I Hardly Remember

...I hardly remember your voice, but the pain of you
floats in some remote current of my blood.
I carry you in my depths, trapped in the sludge
like one of those corpses the sea refuses to give up.

It was a spoiled remnant of the South. A beach
without fishing boats, where the sun was for sale.
A stretch of shore, now a jungle of lights and languages
that gr...Read more of this...
by Guillen, Rafael

Not Fear

...Not fear. Maybe, out there somewhere,
the possibility of fear; the wall
that might tumble down, because it's for sure
that behind it is the sea.
Not fear. Fear has a countenance;
It's external, concrete,
like a rifle, a shot bolt,
a suffering child,
like the darkness that's hidden
in every human mouth.
Not fear. Maybe only the brand
of the offspring of fea...Read more of this...
by Guillen, Rafael


Paradise Lost Book 5: An Epitome

...Higgledy piggeldy
Archangel Rafael,
Speaking of Satan's re-
Bellion from God:

"Chap was decidedly
Turgiversational,
Given to lewdness and
Rodomontade."...Read more of this...
by Hecht, Anthony

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