Famous Threaded Poems by Famous Poets

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

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8 Fragments For Kurt Cobain

...eless illusion 

2/
The guitar claws kept tightening, I guess on your heart stem.
The loops of feedback and distortion, threaded right thru
Lucifer's wisdom teeth, and never stopped their reverbrating
In your mind 

And from the stage
All the faces out front seemed so hungry
With an unbearably wholesome misunderstanding

From where they sat, you seemed so far up there
High and live and diving

And instead you were swamp crawling
Down, deeper
Until you tasted the Earth's own b...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Jim


An Aquarium

...n water,
The light rippling over them
In steel-bright tremors.
Outspread translucent fins
Flute, fold, and relapse;
The threaded light prints through them on the pebbles
In scarcely tarnished twinklings.
Curving of spotted spines,
Slow up-shifts,
Lazy convolutions:
Then a sudden swift straightening
And darting below:
Oblique grey shadows
Athwart a pale casement.
Roped and curled,
Green man-eating eels
Slumber in undulate rhythms,
With crests laid horizontal on their backs.
Ba...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

An Autumn Evening

...nds blow 
And wake among the harps of leafless trees 
Fantastic runes and mournful melodies. 

The chilly purple air is threaded through
With silver from the rising moon afar, 
And from a gulf of clear, unfathomed blue
In the southwest glimmers a great gold star 
Above the darkening druid glens of fir 
Where beckoning boughs and elfin voices stir. 

And so I wander through the shadows still,
And look and listen with a rapt delight, 
Pausing again and yet again at will
To drin...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

As I Walked Out One Evening

...way,And Time will have his fancyTo-morrow or to-day. 'Into many a green valleyDrifts the appalling snow;Time breaks the threaded dancesAnd the diver's brilliant bow. 'O plunge your hands in water,Plunge them in up to the wrist;Stare, stare in the basinAnd wonder what you've missed. 'The glacier knocks in the cupboard,The desert sighs in the bed,And the crack in the tea-cup opensA lane to the land of the dead. 'Where the beggars raffle the banknotesAnd the Giant is enchanting ...Read more of this...
by Auden, Wystan Hugh (W H)

Bridge Over The Aire Book 1

...nse like choking fog

The procession to the altar a parade

Of the dead and God was over the road

In the pink and blue threaded lupins

Massed behind the rusted padlock of

The gate to the unused path by the

Bridge over the railway.



I began this prayer of poetry in poverty

And this never-ending song started in silence

After the bells quietened and Sunday was in

Church or still in bed as I watched the tusky

Growing in the fecund darkness. The shed was

Holy, warm and ...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry


Bridge Over The Aire Book 2

...megaliths to memory.





37



By the railway cutting

Chained and padlocked

Rusty gates made

My private garden

Of threaded lupins

Pink and blue.





38



My Madeleine

Was Angel Cake

In Marks and Sparks.





39



By what was once

Ben’s Cycle Shop

I stop and stare

Across Leeds Nine

A broken wall

By Crossgreen is

All that’s left

To build on.



40



I speak like the dumb

Hear like the deaf

I have the blindman’s vision.How do I see you?

How and where?

The...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

Charmides

...sp and rustling fern the heavy cattle strayed.

And when the light-foot mower went afield
Across the meadows laced with threaded dew,
And the sheep bleated on the misty weald,
And from its nest the waking corncrake flew,
Some woodmen saw him lying by the stream
And marvelled much that any lad so beautiful could seem,

Nor deemed him born of mortals, and one said,
'It is young Hylas, that false runaway
Who with a Naiad now would make his bed
Forgetting Herakles,' but others, '...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar

Easter Communion

...res you have spent
With oil of gladness, for sackcloth and frieze
And the ever-fretting shirt of punishment
Give myrrhy-threaded golden folds of ease.
Your scarce-sheathed bones are weary of being bent: 
Lo, God shall strengthen all the feeble knees....Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Goblin Market

...n a smart, ache, tingle,
Lizzie went her way;
Knew not was it night or day;
Sprang up the bank, tore through the furze,
Threaded copse and dingle,
And heard her penny jingle
Bouncing in her purse, --
Its bounce was music to her ear.
She ran and ran
As if she feared some goblin man
Dogged her with gibe or curse
Or something worse:
But not one goblin skurried after,
Nor was she pricked by fear;
The kind heart made her windy-paced
That urged her home quite out of breath with has...Read more of this...
by Rossetti, Christina

In the Neolithic Age

...histic etcher at Grenelle.


Then I stripped them, scalp from skull, and my hunting-dogs
 fed full, 
 And their teeth I threaded neatly on a thong;
And I wiped my mouth and said, "It is well that they are dead,
 For I know my work is right and theirs was wrong."

But my Totem saw the shame; from his ridgepole-shrine he came,
 And he told me in a vision of the night: --
"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,
 "And every single one of them is right!"

 . . ...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

Pickthorn Manor

...he white petals shiver,
And one or two would flutter prone and lie Spotting the smooth-clipped 
grass. The days went by
Threaded with talk and verses. Green 
leaves pushed Through blossoms stubbornly.
Gervase, unconscious of dishonesty,
Fell into strong and watchful loving, free
He thought, since always would his lips be hushed.

XXVII
But lips do not stay silent at command, And 
Gervase strove in vain to order his.
Luckily Eunice did not understand That he but read himself 
...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

Song of Myself

...ok at the farmer’s girl
 boiling her iron tea-kettle and baking shortcake. 

I find I incorporate gneiss, coal, long-threaded moss, fruits, grains, esculent
 roots, 
And am stucco’d with quadrupeds and birds all over, 
And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
And call anything close again, when I desire it. 

In vain the speeding or shyness; 
In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach; 
In vain the mastodon retreats beneath its...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Song of the Broad-Axe

...ng passages through the ice. 

The shapes arise! 
Shapes of factories, arsenals, foundries, markets; 
Shapes of the two-threaded tracks of railroads; 
Shapes of the sleepers of bridges, vast frameworks, girders, arches;
Shapes of the fleets of barges, towns, lake and canal craft, river craft. 

The shapes arise! 
Ship-yards and dry-docks along the Eastern and Western Seas, and in many a bay and
 by-place, 
The live-oak kelsons, the pine planks, the spars, the hackmatack-roots...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Cremona Violin

...heep.
The notes are asleep,
Lying adrift on the air
In level lines
Like sunlight hanging in pines and pines,
Strung and threaded,
All imbedded
In the blue-green of the hazy pines.
Lines -- long, straight lines!
And stems,
Long, straight stems
Pushing up
To the cup of blue, blue sky.
Stems growing misty
With the many of them,
Red-green mist
Of the trees,
And these
Wood-flavoured notes.
The back is maple and the belly is pine.
The rich notes twine
As though weaving in and out o...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

The Opening of the Piano

...h of music such as none before,
Steals from her mother's chamber and peeps at the open door.

Just as the "Jubilate" in threaded whisper dies,
"Open it! open it, lady!" the little maiden cries,
(For she thought 't was a singing creature caged in a box she heard,)
"Open it! open it, lady! and let me see the bird!"...Read more of this...
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The Princess (part 1)

...clamour at our backs 
With Ho! from some bay-window shake the night; 
But all was quiet: from the bastioned walls 
Like threaded spiders, one by one, we dropt, 
And flying reached the frontier: then we crost 
To a livelier land; and so by tilth and grange, 
And vines, and blowing bosks of wilderness, 
We gained the mother city thick with towers, 
And in the imperial palace found the king. 

His name was Gama; cracked and small his voice, 
But bland the smile that like a wrink...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Task: Book IV The Winter Evening (excerpts)

...distinct,
And in the charming strife triumphant still;
Beguile the night, and set a keener edge
On female industry: the threaded steel
Flies swiftly, and, unfelt, the task proceeds.
The volume clos'd, the customary rites
Of the last meal commence. A Roman meal;
Such as the mistress of the world once found
Delicious, when her patriots of high note,
Perhaps by moonlight, at their humble doors,
And under an old oak's domestic shade,
Enjoy'd--spare feast!--a radish and an egg!
Di...Read more of this...
by Cowper, William

The Transparent Man

...ntages
Back in those days. Anyway, I was struck
Right from the start by the sea-weed intricacy,
The fine-haired, silken-threaded filiations
That wove, like Belgian lace, throughout the head.
But this last week it seems I have found myself
Looking beyond, or through, individual trees
At the dense, clustered woodland just behind them,
Where those great, nameless crowds patiently stand.
It's become a sort of complex, ultimate puzzle
And keeps me fascinated. My eyes are twenty-tw...Read more of this...
by Hecht, Anthony

The Triumph of Life

...rient cavern flowed,
And the Sun's image radiantly intense
"Burned on the waters of the well that glowed
Like gold, and threaded all the forest maze
With winding paths of emerald fire--there stood
"Amid the sun, as he amid the blaze
Of his own glory, on the vibrating
Floor of the fountain, paved with flashing rays,
"A shape all light, which with one hand did fling
Dew on the earth, as if she were the Dawn
Whose invisible rain forever seemed to sing
"A silver music on the moss...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The West Wind

...eneath the forest's skirts I rest,
Whose branching pines rise dark and high,
And hear the breezes of the West
Among the threaded foliage sigh.

Sweet Zephyr! why that sound of wo?
Is not thy home among the flowers?
Do not the bright June roses blow,
To meet thy kiss at morning hours?

And lo! thy glorious realm outspread--
Yon stretching valleys, green and gay,
And yon free hilltops, o'er whose head
The loose white clouds are borne away.

And there the full broad river runs,
...Read more of this...
by Bryant, William Cullen

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