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Famous Stalactites Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lowell, Amy
...> There before our eyes
We saw the vaulted hall of traceried stone
Uprear itself, the distant ceiling hung
With pendent stalactites like frozen vines;
And all along the walls at intervals,
Curled upwards into pillars, roses climbed,
And ramped and were confined, and clustered leaves
Divided where there peered a laughing face.
The foliage seemed to rustle in the wind,
A silent murmur, carved in still, gray stone.
High pointed windows pierced the southern wall
Whence pr...Read More



by Doty, Mark
...Thus:
Mary and Columbus

and the Sacred Heart
equally enthroned
in a fantasia of quartz
and seashells, broken

dishes, stalactites
and stick-shift knobs--
no separation
of nature and art

for Father Wilerus!
He's built fabulous blooms
--bristling mosaic tiles
bunched into chipped,

permanent roses---
and more glisteny
stuff than I can catalogue,
which seems to he the point:

a spectacle, saints
and Stars and Stripes
billowing in hillocks
of concrete. Stubborn

insistence...Read More

by Plath, Sylvia
...I am a miner. The light burns blue.
Waxy stalactites
Drip and thicken, tears

The earthen womb

Exudes from its dead boredom.
Black bat airs

Wrap me, raggy shawls,
Cold homicides.
They weld to me like plums.

Old cave of calcium
Icicles, old echoer.
Even the newts are white,

Those holy Joes.
And the fish, the fish----
Christ! They are panes of ice,

A vice of knives,
A piranha...Read More

by Voznesensky, Andrei
...At night I sleep with windows open 
 and hear the rings of falling stars, 
 From up above skyscrapers drop and, 
 like stalactites, look down on us. 

 High up above me upside down, 
 stuck like a fork into the ground, 
 my nice light-hearted butterfly, 
 my Antiworld, is getting by. 

 I wonder if it's wrong or right 
 that Antiworlds should date at night. 
 Why should they sit there side by side 
 watching TV all through the night? 
 They do not understand a wo...Read More

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