Famous Unveiling Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Unveiling poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous unveiling poems. These examples illustrate what a famous unveiling poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
...rth,
Still must thou strive to follow even there,
That she may know thy valor and thy worth.
Then shall she come unveiling all her charms,
Giving thee joy for pain, and smiles for tears;
Then shalt thou clasp her with possessing arms,
The while she murmurs music in thine ears.
But ere her kiss has faded from thy cheek,
She shall flee from thee over hill and glade,
So must thou seek and ever seek and seek
For each new conquest of this phantom maid....Read more of this...
by
Trumbull, John
...on hallow'd ground,
(That Virtue, as each herald saith,
Of whole blood kin to Punic Faith)
Where all her godlike pow'rs unveiling,
She finds a grateful shrine to dwell in:
And at this altar for her honor,
Chose this High-priest to wait upon her,
Who with just rites, in ancient guise,
Offers the human sacrifice.
Here every day, her vot'ries tell,
She more devours, than th' idol Bel;
And thirsts more rav'nously for gore,
Than any worshipp'd Power before.
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by
Cheney-Coker, Syl
...were promised, when impatient like thirsty cadavers,
we hurried that morning to crown the new emperor,
who was really unveiling his ancient lust?
Even so, someone was saying a new king deserves
vestal virgins, white roosters and the finest harvest—
a crest on his head woven by our hands,
using the most precious leaves; an aged wine
offered to a Messiah, only to be deceived by the false crown
in his teeth, soon after we had silenced the red barbarians.
The chosen ...Read more of this...
by
Lindsay, Vachel
...Solomon,... she came to prove him with hard questions."
[The men's leader rises as he sees the Queen unveiling and approaching a position that gives her half of the stage.]
MEN'S LEADER: :
The Queen of Sheba came to see King Solomon.
I was King Solomon,
[He bows three times.]
I was King Solomon,
I was King Solomon.
WOMEN'S LEADER::
I was the Queen,
[She bows three times.]
I was the Queen,
I was the Queen.
BOTH LEADERS::
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by
Poe, Edgar Allan
...m
The curtain a funeral pall
Comes down with the rush of a storm
And the angels all pallid and wan
Uprising unveiling affirm
That the play is the tragedy "Man"
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
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