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Famous Sopranos Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...y so her will
was nowhere—as in dreams things are and aren't.

Walking along avenues in the dark
street lamps sang like sopranos in their heads
with a voilence they never understood
and all their movements when they were together
had no conclusion.

Only leaning into the question had they motion;
after they parted were savage and swift as gulls.
asking and asking the hostile emptiness
they were as sharp as partly sculptured stone
and all who watched, forgetting, were amazed
t...Read more of this...
by Bidart, Frank



...s at her. "My hair 

was big that night, not that I make a fetish of hair, 
but some poems must not be written 
by bald sopranos." That night she lectured on lingerie 
to an enthusiastic audience of female gymnasts and gin-
drinking males. "Utopia," she said, "is nowhere." 
This prompted one critic to declare that, of them all,

all the poets with hair, Jorie was the fairest moll. 
The New York Times voted her "best hair."
Iowa City was said to be the place where 
all aspirin...Read more of this...
by Lehman, David
...ng awhile the music of my dream, 
And questioning all those reminiscences—the tempest in its fury,
And all the songs of sopranos and tenors, 
And those rapt oriental dances, of religious fervor, 
And the sweet varied instruments, and the diapason of organs, 
And all the artless plaints of love, and grief and death, 
I said to my silent, curious Soul, out of the bed of the slumber-chamber,
Come, for I have found the clue I sought so long, 
Let us go forth refresh’d amid the da...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt
...This singing 
is a kind of dying, 
a kind of birth, 
a votive candle. 
I have a dream-mother 
who sings with her guitar, 
nursing the bedroom 
with a moonlight and beautiful olives. 
A flute came too, 
joining the five strings, 
a God finger over the holes. 
I knew a beautiful woman once 
who sang with her fingertips 
and her eyes were brown 
like small bi...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

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