Famous Silkworms Poems by Famous Poets

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

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For A Thirteenth Birthday

...ser,
his measure of certainty:
a table that's oak all the way through,
real and fragrant flowers,
skirts from sheep and silkworms,
no unknown fibers;
a language as plain as money,
a workable means of exchange;
a world whose very meanness is solid,
mud into mortar, and you are sure
of what will injure you.

I give you names like nails,
walls that withstand your pounding,
doors that are hard to open,
but once they are open, admit you 
into rooms that breathe pure sun.
I give yo...Read more of this...
by Mueller, Lisel


The Schooner Flight

...ales and a storm,"
but for that dream, the book had no answer.
A next night I dreamed of three old women
featureless as silkworms, stitching my fate,
and I scream at them to come out of my house,
and I try beating them away with a broom,
but as they go out, so they crawl back again,
until I start screaming and crying, my flesh
raining with sweat, and she ravage the book
for the dream meaning, and there was nothing;
my nerves melt like a jellyfish - that was when I broke -
the...Read more of this...
by Walcott, Derek

To a Child of Quality Five Years Old 1704. The Author then Forty

...me to tell; 
Dear Five-years-old befriends my passion, 
 And I may write till she can spell. 

For, while she makes her silkworms beds 
 With all the tender things I swear; 
Whilst all the house my passion reads, 
 In papers round her baby's hair; 

She may receive and own my flame; 
 For, though the strictest prudes should know it, 
She'll pass for a most virtuous dame, 
 And I for an unhappy poet. 

Then too, alas! when she shall tear 
 The rhymes some younger rival sends, ...Read more of this...
by Prior, Matthew

To His Two Children

...In the land of Wu the mulberry leaves are green,
And thrice the silkworms have gone to sleep.
In East Luh where my family stay,
I wonder who is sowing those fields of ours.
I cannot be back in time for the spring doings,
Yet I can help nothing, traveling on the river.
The south wind blowing wafts my homesick spirit
And carries it up to the front of our familiar tavern.
There I see a peach tree on the east side of the hou...Read more of this...
by Po, Li

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