Famous Unravel Poems by Famous Poets

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A poem on the rising glory of America

...c to Pacific shores? 
A glorious theme, but how shall mortals dare 
To pierce the mysteries of future days, 
And scenes unravel only known to fate. 



ACASTO. 
This might we do if warm'd by that bright coal 
Snatch'd from the altar of seraphic fire, 
Which touch'd Isaiah's lips, or if the spirit 
Of Jeremy and Amos, prophets old, 
Should fire the breast; but yet I call the muse 
And what we can will do. I see, I see 
A thousand kingdoms rais'd, cities and men 
Num'rous as sa...Read more of this...
by Brackenridge, Hugh Henry


April

...h to find,
That its worth can rightly treasure.

Whilst I'm lost in studying ever

To explain these cyphers duly,--

To unravel my looks truly
In return be your endeavour!

1820....Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Dream Song 91: Op. posth. no. 14

...a-plagued, with a shovel
digging like mad, Lazarus with a plan
to get his own back, a plan, a stratagem
no newsman will unravel....Read more of this...
by Berryman, John

Evening

...ot calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes
 a star each night, and rises;

and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel)
your life, with its immensity and fear,
so that, now bounded, now immeasurable,
it is alternately stone in you and star....Read more of this...
by Clare, John

Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages

...eters, older
Than time counted by anxious worried women
Lying awake, calculating the future,
Trying to unweave, unwind, unravel
And piece together the past and the future,
Between midnight and dawn, when the past is all deception,
The future futureless, before the morning watch
When time stops and time is never ending;
And the ground swell, that is and was from the beginning,
Clangs
The bell.


II

Where is there an end of it, the soundless wailing,
The silent withering of au...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)


In Excelsis

...differently.
I wish to enter her like a dream,
leaving my roots here on the beach
like a pan of knives.
And my past to unravel, with its knots and snarls,
and walk into ocean,
letting it explode over me
and outward, where I would drink the moon
and my clothes would slip away,
and I would sink into the great mother arms
I never had,
except here where the abyss
throws itself on the sand
blow by blow,
over and over,
and we stand on the shore
loving its pulse
as it swallows the ...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

Marginalia

...reen

On metaphor from Hegel to Lacan and how the colloquium

At Bonneval changed analytic history, a mystery

I’ll not unravel if I live to ninety.

Ignorance isn’t bliss, I know enough to talk the piss

From jumped-up SHO’s and locums who’d miss vital side effects

And think all’s needed is a mother’s kiss.



I’ll wait till the heather’s purple and bring nail scissors

To cut and suture neatly and renew my stocks

Of moor momentoes vased in unsunny Surrey.

Can you believe...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

Ode for the Keats Centenary

...rld
As an irradiant orb self-filled with light,
Who schooled his heart with passionate control
To compass knowledge, to unravel the dense
Web of this tangled life, he would weigh slight
As thistledown blown from his most fairy fancy
That pale self-glory, against the mystery,
The wonder of the various world, the power
Of "seeing great things in loneliness."
Where bloodroot in the clearing dwells
Along the edge of snow;
Where, trembling all their trailing bells,
The sensitive t...Read more of this...
by Scott, Duncan Campbell

Orinda To Lucasia Parting October 1661 At London

...o lost a thing
By all the shocks my daily sorrow bring,
That would'st thou for thy old Orinda call
Thou hardly could'st unravel her at all.
And should I thy clear fortunes interline
With the incessant miseries of mine?
No, no, I never lov'd at such a rate
To tye thee to the rigours of my fate, 
As from my obligations thou art free,
Sure thou shalt be so from my Injury,
Though every other worthiness I miss,
Yet I'le at least be generous in this.
I'd rather perish without sigh ...Read more of this...
by Philips, Katherine

Shake The Superflux!

...ch are keys and then you throw them away
and learn to love the locked rooms, with or without
corpses inside, riddles to unravel, emptiness to possess,
a woman to wake up with a kiss (who is she?
no one knows) who begs your forgiveness (for what?
you cannot know) and then, in the authoritative tone
of one who has weathered the storm of his exile, orders you
to put up your hands and beg the rain to continue
as if it were in your power. And it is,
I feel it with each drop. I am ...Read more of this...
by Lehman, David

The Big Heart

...epeatedly, 
in the way the sea 
places its many fingers on the shore, 
again and again 
and they know me, 
they help me unravel, 
they listen with ears made of conch shells, 
they speak back with the wine of the best region. 
They are my staff. 
They comfort me. 

They hear how 
the artery of my soul has been severed 
and soul is spurting out upon them, 
bleeding on them, 
messing up their clothes, 
dirtying their shoes. 
And God is filling me, 
though there are times of doub...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

The Transparent Man

...rt of complex, ultimate puzzle
And keeps me fascinated. My eyes are twenty-twenty,
Or used to be, but of course I can't unravel
The tousled snarl of intersecting limbs,
That mackled, cinder grayness. It's a riddle
Beyond the eye's solution. Impenetrable.
If there is order in all that anarchy
Of granite mezzotint, that wilderness,
It takes a better eye than mine to see it.
It set me on to wondering how to deal
With such a thickness of particulars,
Deal with it faithfully, you ...Read more of this...
by Hecht, Anthony

To The Man Of The High North

...s men who nameless rivers travel,
 And in strange valleys greet strange deaths alone;
The grim, intrepid ones who would unravel
 The mysteries that shroud the Polar Zone.

These will I sing, and if one of you linger
 Over my pages in the Long, Long Night,
And on some lone line lay a calloused finger,
 Saying: "Lo! It's human-true--it hits me right";
Then will I count this loving toil well spent;
Then will I dream awhile--content, content....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

To Walt Whitman In America

...ire for our sakes.

For a continent bloodless with travail
Here toils and brawls as it can,
And the web of it who shall unravel
Of all that peer on the plan;
Would fain grow men, but they grow not,
And fain be free, but they know not
One name for freedom and man?

One name, not twain for division;
One thing, not twain, from the birth;
Spirit and substance and vision,
Worth more than worship is worth;
Unbeheld, unadored, undivined,
The cause, the centre, the mind,
The secret a...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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