Famous Wordlessly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Baptism

...fate to meet,
My mouth give utterance to any moan.
The yawning oven spits forth fiery spears;
Red aspish tongues shout wordlessly my name.
Desire destroys, consumes my mortal fears,
Transforming me into a shape of flame.
I will come out, back to your world of tears,
A stronger soul within a finer frame....Read more of this...
by McKay, Claude


Elegy For My Father

..., “Voyages”

“If a lion could talk, we couldn’t understand it”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein

Under the ocean that stretches out wordlessly
past the long edge of the last human shore,
there are deep windows the waves haven't opened,
where night is reflected through decades of glass.
There is the nursery, there is the nanny,
there are my father’s unreachable eyes
turned towards the window. Is the child uneasy?
His is the death that is circling the stars.

In the deep room where candles...Read more of this...
by Finch, Annie

Shore Twilight

...ine,
A jewelled flagon brimmed with purple wine. 

Like a dumb poet's soul the troubled sea
Moans of its joy and sorrow wordlessly; 

But the glad winds that utter naught of grief
Make silver speech by headland and by reef. 

Saving for such there is no voice or call
To mar the gracious silence over all­ 

Silence so tender 'tis a sweet caress,
A most beguiling and dear loneliness. 

Lo, here we find a beckoning solitude,
A winsome presence to be mutely wooed, 

Which, being ...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Something Has Fallen

...Something has fallen wordlessly 
and holds still on the black driveway. 

You find it, like a jewel, 
among the empty bottles and cans 

where the dogs toppled the garbage. 
You pick it up, not sure 

if it is stone or wood 
or some new plastic made 

to replace them both. 
When you raise your sunglasses 

to see exactly what you have 
you see it is only a shadow 

that has dark...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip

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