Famous Symbolically Poems by Famous Poets

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

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symbolically concerned

...of hidden good

not to be made too much of but discerned
and wrought into a pendant (gold inlaid)
where tree and flesh (symbolically concerned)
look to a future longing for their trade
the apples fall but core is not dismayed
behaviour’s but a passing itch or sneeze
(a moment’s cost but plaster-cast not jade)
in caverns long sight-lost an ancient frieze
cries for new eyes again (a smarter breeze)...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg


The Song Of The Mouth-Organ

...d mischance;
 I'm the Stradivarius of blank defeat;
In the down-world, when the devil leads the dance,
 I am simply and symbolically meet;
I'm the irrepressive spirit of mankind;
 I'm the small boy playing knuckle down with Death;
At the end of all things known, where God's rubbish-heap is thrown,
 I shrill impudent triumph at a breath.

I'm a humble little bit of tin and horn;
 I'm a byword, I'm a plaything, I'm a jest;
The virtuoso looks on me with scorn;
 But there's times...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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