Famous Surfaced Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Dickeyville Grotto

...ng in hillocks
of concrete. Stubborn

insistence on rendering
invisibles solid. What's
more frankly actual
than cement? Surfaced,

here, in pure decor:
even the railings
curlicued with rows
of identical whelks,

even the lampposts
and birdhouses,
and big encrusted urns
wagging with lunar flowers!

A little dizzy,
the world he's made,
and completely
unapologetic, high

on a hill in Dickeyville
so the wind whips
around like crazy.
A bit pigheaded,

yet full of love
for glitter ...Read more of this...
by Doty, Mark


The Revolutionary

...ing out magnetic vibrations of warning, pitch-dark throbs of invitation. 

But you, pale-faces, 
You are painful, harsh-surfaced pillars that give off nothing except rigidity, 
And I jut against you if I try to move, for you are everywhere, and I am blind, 
Sightless among all your visuality, 
You staring caryatids. 

See if I don't bring you down, and all your high opinion 
And all your ponderous roofed-in ******** of right and wrong 
Your particular heavens, 
With a smash. ...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

The Symphony

...nd lo!
Every least ripple of the strings' song-flow
Died to a level with each level bow
And made a great chord tranquil-surfaced so,
As a brook beneath his curving bank doth go
To linger in the sacred dark and green
Where many boughs the still pool overlean
And many leaves make shadow with their sheen.
But presently
A velvet flute-note fell down pleasantly
Upon the bosom of that harmony,
And sailed and sailed incessantly,
As if a petal from a wild-rose blown
Had fluttered dow...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

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