Famous Retorts Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Retorts poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous retorts poems. These examples illustrate what a famous retorts poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Tebb, Barry
...wool
They had impetigo
We passed them quickly
On the other side.
5
In the chemist’s shop
Stood the huge retorts
Of red and green
In the coal fire glowed
‘The Burning Fiery Furnace’
Against the binyard wall
Margaret played ball
Deftly lifting her leg
Passing the ball beneath
Catching it again
In faultless rhythm.
6
Behind the colonnade
Under the bridge
Margaret and I
Took off our clothes
In wonder and swam
In the crystal river.
A ...Read more of this...
by
Browning, Robert
...bdued, self-restraining:
Five, though, stands out all the stiffer hence.
XVI.
One is incisive, corrosive:
Two retorts, nettled, curt, crepitant;
Three makes rejoinder, expansive, explosive;
Four overbears them all, strident and strepitant,
Five ... O Danaides, O Sieve!
XVII.
Now, they ply axes and crowbars;
Now, they prick pins at a tissue
Fine as a skein of the casuist Escobar's
Worked on the bone of a lie. To what issue?
Where is our gain at ...Read more of this...
by
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
...r>
Rude poets of the tavern hearth,
Squandering your unquoted mirth,
Which keeps the ground and never soars,
While Jake retorts and Reuben roars,
Tough and screaming as birch-bark,
Goes like bullet to its mark,
While the solid curse and jeer
Never balk the waiting ear:
To student ears keen-relished jokes
On truck, and stock, and farming-folks,—
Nought the mountain yields thereof
But savage health and sinews tough.
On the summit as I stood,
O'er the wide floor of plain an...Read more of this...
by
Lowell, Amy
..."Where is Father?
I am so afraid." Boom! The child sobs and
shrieks. The house
trembles and creaks. Boom!
Retorts, globes, tubes, and phials lie shattered. All
his trials
oozing across the floor. The life that was his choosing,
lonely, urgent,
goaded by a hope, all gone. A weary man in a ruined laboratory,
that is his story. Boom! Gloom and ignorance,
and the jig of drunken brutes.
Diseases like snakes crawling over the earth, leaving trai...Read more of this...
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