Famous Transpiring Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A single Clover Plank

by Emily Dickinson
 A single Clover Plank
Was all that saved a Bee
A Bee I personally knew
From sinking in the sky --

'Twixt Firmament above
And Firmament below
The Billows of Circumference
Were sweeping him away --

The idly swaying Plank
Responsible to nought
A sudden Freight of Wind assumed
And Bumble Bee was not --

This harrowing event
Transpiring in the Grass
Did not so much as wring from him
A wandering "Alas" --...Read more of this...

Who is now Reading This?

by Walt Whitman
 WHO is now reading this? 
May-be one is now reading this who knows some wrong-doing of my past life, 
Or may-be a stranger is reading this who has secretly loved me, 
Or may-be one who meets all my grand assumptions and egotisms with derision, 
Or may-be one who is puzzled at me.

As if I were not puzzled at myself!...Read more of this...

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