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Famous Whorl Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Yeats, William Butler
...uropa played the fool
That changed a lover for a bull.
Fol de rol, fol de rol.

To round that shell's elaborate whorl,
Adorning every secret track
With the delicate mother-of-pearl,
Made the joints of Heaven crack:
So never hang your heart upon
A roaring, ranting journeyman.
Fol de rol, fol de rol....Read more of this...



by Alighieri, Dante
...ut each 
 Smaller, concentrate in its greater pain, 
 Than that which overhangs it. 
 Those
 who reach 
 The second whorl, on entering, learn their bane 
 Where Minos, hideous, sits and snarls. He hears, 
 Decides, and as he girds himself they go. 

 Before his seat each ill-born spirit appear, 
 And tells its tale of evil, loath or no, 
 While he, their judge, of all sins cognizant, 
 Hears, and around himself his circling tail 
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by Brooke, Rupert
...ctuant mutable world and dim,
Where wavering masses bulge and gape
Mysterious, and shape to shape
Dies momently through whorl and hollow,
And form and line and solid follow
Solid and line and form to dream
Fantastic down the eternal stream;
An obscure world, a shifting world,
Bulbous, or pulled to thin, or curled,
Or serpentine, or driving arrows,
Or serene slidings, or March narrows.
There slipping wave and shore are one,
And weed and mud. No ray of sun,
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by Hardy, Thomas
...e robin-song, 
 When flowers are in their tombs. 

Through the slow summer, when the sun 
 Called to each frond and whorl 
That all he could for flowers was being done, 
 Why did it not uncurl? 

It must have felt that fervid call 
 Although it took no heed, 
Waking but now, when leaves like corpses fall, 
 And saps all retrocede. 

Too late its beauty, lonely thing, 
 The season's shine is spent, 
Nothing remains for it but shivering 
 In tempests turbulent. 

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