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Famous Bewilder Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
...ll.

The erring painter made Love blind,
Highest Love who shines on all;
Him radiant, sharpest-sighted god
None can bewilder;
Whose eyes pierce
The Universe,
Path-finder, road-builder,
Mediator, royal giver,
Rightly-seeing, rightly-seen,
Of joyful and transparent mien.
'Tis a sparkle passing
From each to each, from me to thee,
Perpetually,
Sharing all, daring all,
Levelling, misplacing
Each obstruction, it unites
Equals remote, and seeming opposites.
And ever and ...Read more of this...



by Moore, Thomas
...ed for Helen! 
Her cup was a fiction, but this is reality. 

Never was philter form'd with such power 
To charm and bewilder as this we are quaffing; 
Its magic began when, in Autumn's rich hour, 
A harvest of gold in the fields it stood laughing. 
There having, by Nature's enchantment, been fill'd 
With the balm and the bloom of her kindliest weather, 
This wonderful juice from its core was distill'd 
To enliven such hearts as are here brought together. 
Then dri...Read more of this...

by Carroll, Lewis
...ing the ocean
And that was to tingle his bell. 

He was thoughtful and grave--but the orders he gave
Were enough to bewilder a crew.
When he cried "Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!"
What on earth was the helmsman to do? 

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes:
A thing, as the Bellman remarked,
That frequently happens in tropical climes,
When a vessel is, so to speak, "snarked". 

But the principal failing occurred in the sailing,
And...Read more of this...

by Yeats, William Butler
...ering sword out of the east. A puff of wind
And those white glimmering fragments of the mist sweep by.
Frenzies bewilder, reveries perturb the mind;
Monstrous familiar images swim to the mind's eye.

'Vengeance upon the murderers,' the cry goes up,
'Vengeance for Jacques Molay.' In cloud-pale rags, or in lace,
The rage-driven, rage-tormented, and rage-hungry troop,
Trooper belabouring trooper, biting at arm or at face,
Plunges towards nothing, arms and fingers...Read more of this...

by Carroll, Lewis
...." So remon{-} strance was impossible, and no steering could be done till the next varnishing day. During these bewildering intervals the ship usually sailed backwards. 

As this poem is to some extent connected with the lay of the Jabberwock, let me take this opportunity of answering a question that has often been asked me, how to pronounce "slithy toves." The "i" in "slithy" is long, as in "writhe"; and "toves" is pronounced so as to rhyme with "groves."...Read more of this...



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