Famous Awoken Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Awoken poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous awoken poems. These examples illustrate what a famous awoken poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Petrarch, Francesco
...appear'd my dream—the spell was broken.Then came distress: to the consciousness of life I had awoken. Father Prout....Read more of this...
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Brooke, Rupert
...you, this they might not do.
One last shame's spared me, one black word's unspoken;
And I'm alone; and you have not awoken....Read more of this...
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Murray, Les
...flowers and phone calls and letters,
concern I'd never dreamed was there
when black kelp boiled in my head.
I'd awoken amid my State funeral,
nevermore to eat my liver
or feed it to the Black Dog, depression
which the three Johns Hunter seem
to have killed with their scalpels:
it hasn't found its way home,
where I now dodder and mend
in thanks for devotion, for the ambulance
this time, for the hospital fork lift,
for pethidine, and this face of deity:
not...Read more of this...
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