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Famous Roiling Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...loss or an addition; 
I know, for I have heard them ever since. 
And there was in me not an answer for them
Save a new roiling silence. Once again 
I met his look, and on his face I saw 
There was a twisting in the swarthiness 
That I had often sworn to be the cast 
Of his ophidian mind. He had no soul.
There was to be no more of him—not then. 
The carriage rolled away with him inside, 
Leaving the two of us alive together 
In the same hemisphere to hate each other. 
I don’t...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



...he, the thing that is to do
Will do itself, -- but there's a reckoning;
The sessions that are now too much his own,
The roiling inward of a stilled outside,
The churning out of all those blood-fed lines,
The nights of many schemes and little sleep,
The full brain hammered hot with too much thinking,
The vexed heart over-worn with too much aching, -- 
This weary jangling of conjoined affairs
Made out of elements that have no end,
And all confused at once, I understand,
Is not ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...sperately,
sizing up the sea-streets, hurrying with your hands,
gliding across the spear-waves. The ocean welled with roiling,
the whelming of winter. You two toiled
in the water’s possession for seven nights—
but he overcame you in swimming, having the greater strength.
Then the sea bore him up in the morning-time
onto the Heathoreams’ shore. From there he sought
his own backyard, dear among his people,
Brondings’ land, the fair city of your allies,
where he claime...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,
...fta die.
That is our 'pointed task. Love & die.
—Yes; that makes sense.
But what makes sense between, then? What if I
roiling & babbling & braining, brood on why and
just sat on the fence?

—I doubts you did or do. De choice is lost.
—It's fool's gold. But I go in for that.
The boy & the bear
looked at each other. Man all is tossed
& lost with groin-wounds by the grand bulls, cat.
William Falukner's where?

(Frost being still around.)...Read more of this...
by Berryman, John

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry