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Famous Transfiguration Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...Rapt in the expectation of the birth
Of a new Beauty,
Sprung from Brotherhood and Wisdom.
I with eyes of spirit see the Transfiguration
Before you see it.
But ye infinite brood of golden eagles nesting ever higher,
Wheeling ever higher, the sun-light wooing
Of lofty places of Thought,
Forgive the blindness of the departed owl....Read more of this...
by Masters, Edgar Lee



...e) for hope to be re-stashed

as cosmos and the throbbing crumb of dirt
share each other’s suits and blindly will
a raw transfiguration to assert
what wasn’t is - then this the only skill

as plodding snail and spiralling through space
unite in common pattern (daily blent) 
to tie truth down to gastropodic pace
and who goes faster loses what is meant...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg
...Immortal clothing I put on
So soon as, Julia, I am gone
To mine eternal mansion.

Thou, thou art here, to human sight
Clothed all with incorrupted light;
--But yet how more admir'dly bright

Wilt thou appear, when thou art set
In thy refulgent thronelet,
That shin'st thus in thy counterfeit!...Read more of this...
by Herrick, Robert
...Mysterious death! who in a single hour 
Life's gold can so refine 
And by thy art divine 
Change mortal weakness to immortal power! 

Bending beneath the weight of eighty years 
Spent with the noble strife 
of a victorious life 
We watched her fading heavenward, through our tears. 

But ere the sense of loss our hearts had wrung 
A miracle was wrought; 
An...Read more of this...
by Alcott, Louisa May

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