Famous Roils Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Gravelly Run

...uld never end it:

the swamp's slow water comes
down Gravelly Run fanning the long
 stone-held algal
hair and narrowing roils between
the shoulders of the highway bridge:

holly grows on the banks in the woods there,
and the cedars' gothic-clustered
 spires could make
green religion in winter bones:

so I look and reflect, but the air's glass
jail seals each thing in its entity:

no use to make any philosophies here:
 I see no
god in the holly, hear no song from
the snowbroke...Read more of this...
by Ammons, A R


Senlin: His Futile Preoccupations

...
It is my pride that starlight is above me; 
I dream amid waves of air, my walls are deep.

I am a door . . . before me roils the darkness, 
Behind me ring clear waves of sound and light. 
Stand in the shadowy street outside, and listen— 
The crying of violins assails the night . . . 
My walls are deep, but the cries of music pierce them; 
They shake with the sound of drums . . . yet it is strange 
That I should know so little what means this music, 
Hearing it always within ...Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad

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