Famous Tunneled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Overture To A Dance Of Locomotives

...windows. Colored cooks sweating 
in a small kitchen. Taillights— 

In time: twofour! 
In time: twoeight! 

—rivers are tunneled: trestles 
cross oozy swampland: wheels repeating 
the same gesture remain relatively 
stationary: rails forever parallel 
return on themselves infinitely. 
...Read more of this...
by Williams, William Carlos (WCW)


The Castle

...here was a little private gate,
A little wicked wicket gate.
The wizened warder let them through. 

Oh then our maze of tunneled stone
Grew thin and treacherous as air.
The cause was lost without a groan,
The famous citadel overthrown,
And all its secret galleries bare. 

How can this shameful tale be told?
I will maintain until my death
We could do nothing, being sold;
Our only enemy was gold,
And we had no arms to fight it with. 

...Read more of this...
by Muir, Edwin

The End Of Your Life

...First light. This misted field 
 is the world, that man 
 slipping the greased bolt 

back and forth, that man 
 tunneled with blood 
 the dark smudges of whose eyes 

call for sleep, calls 
 for quiet, and the woman 
 down your line, 

the woman who screamed the loudest, 
 will be quiet. 
 The rushes, the grassless shale, 

the dust, whiten like droppings. 
 One blue 
 grape hyacinth whistles 

in the thin and birdless air 
 without breath. 
 Ten minutes later 

a los...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip

Underground System

...Set the foot down with distrust upon the crust of the
 world—it is thin.
Moles are at work beneath us; they have tunneled the
 sub-soil
With separate chambers; which at an appointed knock
Could be as one, could intersect and interlock. We walk
 on the skin
Of life. No toil
Of rake or hoe, no lime, no phosphate, no rotation of
 crops, no irrigation of the land,
Will coax the limp and flattened grain to stand
On that bad day, or feed to strength the nibbled root's of
 ou...Read more of this...
by St. Vincent Millay, Edna

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