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Famous Porous Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...s first nature, boneless and absurd.

 The moon lifts him up into its white field, a cloud 
shaped like an old man, porous with stars.

 He floats through high dark branches, a corpse tangled 
in a tree on a river....Read more of this...
by Edson, Russell



...ed; for God had thrown 
That mountain as his garden-mould high raised 
Upon the rapid current, which, through veins 
Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, 
Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill 
Watered the garden; thence united fell 
Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, 
Which from his darksome passage now appears, 
And now, divided into four main streams, 
Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm 
And country, whereof here needs no account; 
But r...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...ld: 
Of light by far the greater part he took, 
Transplanted from her cloudy shrine, and placed 
In the sun's orb, made porous to receive 
And drink the liquid light; firm to retain 
Her gathered beams, great palace now of light. 
Hither, as to their fountain, other stars 
Repairing, in their golden urns draw light, 
And hence the morning-planet gilds her horns; 
By tincture or reflection they augment 
Their small peculiar, though from human sight 
So far remote, with dim...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...keness of the shirt.
And perhaps also by a flush rising into my face,
for a word -- one with a thick sound,
as if a porous vowel had sat soaking up
saliva while waiting to get spoken,
possibly the name of some flower
that hummingbirds love, perhaps
"honeysuckle" or "hollyhock"
or "phlox" -- just then shocked me
with its suddenness, and this time
apparently did burst the insulation,
letting the word sound in the open
where all could hear, for these tiny, irascible,
nectar-...Read more of this...
by Kinnell, Galway
...THERE are some powerful odours that can pass 
Out of the stoppard flagon; even glass 
To them is porous. Oft when some old box 
Brought from the East is opened and the locks 
And hinges creak and cry; or in a press 
In some deserted house, where the sharp stress 
Of odours old and dusty fills the brain; 
An ancient flask is brought to light again, 
And forth the ghosts of long-dead odours creep. 
There, softly trembling in the shadows, sleep 
A ...Read more of this...
by Baudelaire, Charles



...THERE are some powerful odours that can pass 
Out of the stoppard flagon; even glass 
To them is porous. Oft when some old box 
Brought from the East is opened and the locks 
And hinges creak and cry; or in a press 
In some deserted house, where the sharp stress 
Of odours old and dusty fills the brain; 
An ancient flask is brought to light again, 
And forth the ghosts of long-dead odours creep. 
There, softly trembling in the shadows, sleep 
A ...Read more of this...
by Baudelaire, Charles
...n to any lad 
Who’d ride him round the ring. 

And, gentle reader, do not scoff 
Nor think a man a fool— 
To buck a porous-plaster off 
Was pastime to that mule. 
The boys got on he bucked like sin; 
He threw them in the dirt. 
What time the clown would raise a grin 
By asking, “Are you hurt?” 
But Johnny Dacey came one night, 
The crack of all the school; 
Said he, “I’ll win the crown all right; 
Bring in your bucking mule.” 


The elephant went off his trunk...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

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