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Famous Better Late Than Never Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Better Late Than Never poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous better late than never poems. These examples illustrate what a famous better late than never poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...Between me and the sunset, like a dome 
Against the glory of a world on fire, 
Now burned a sudden hill, 
Bleak, round, and high, by flame-lit height made higher, 
With nothing on it for the flame to kill
Save one who moved and was alone up there 
To loom before the chaos and the glare 
As if he were the last god going home 
Unto his last desire. 

Dark, m...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



...is ills are over; 
You hearken to the lover's say, 
And happy is the lover. 

'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, 
But better late than never; 
I shall have lived a little while 
Before I die for ever....Read more of this...
by Housman, A E

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