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Famous Deepness Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Wei, Wang
...d forgets that cliffs and peaks may vary their appearance. 
...It is certain that to enter through the deepness of the mountain, 
A green river leads you, into a misty wood. 
But now, with spring-floods everywhere and floating peachpetals -- 
Which is the way to go, to find that hidden source? ...Read more of this...



by Wei, Wang
...nd forgets that cliffs and peaks may vary their appearance. 
...It is certain that to enter through the deepness of the mountain, 
A green river leads you, into a misty wood. 
But now, with spring-floods everywhere and floating peachpetals -- 
Which is the way to go, to find that hidden source?...Read more of this...

by Keats, John
..., said: "My child,
Favour this gentle youth; his days are wild
With love--he--but alas! too well I see
Thou know'st the deepness of his misery.
Ah, smile not so, my son: I tell thee true,
That when through heavy hours I used to rue
The endless sleep of this new-born Adon',
This stranger ay I pitied. For upon
A dreary morning once I fled away
Into the breezy clouds, to weep and pray
For this my love: for vexing Mars had teaz'd
Me even to tears: thence, when a little ea...Read more of this...

by Rilke, Rainer Maria
...Night. O you whose countenance, dissolved
in deepness, hovers above my face.
You who are the heaviest counterweight
to my astounding contemplation.

Night, that trembles as reflected in my eyes,
but in itself strong;
inexhaustible creation, dominant,
enduring beyond the earth's endurance;

Night, full of newly created stars that leave
trails of fire streaming from their seams
as they soar in in...Read more of this...

by Spenser, Edmund
...Him needeth not to seek for usage right 
Of line, or lead, or rule, or square, to measure 
Her length, her breadth, her deepness, or her height: 
But him behooves to view in compass round 
All that the ocean grasps in his long arms; 
Be it where the yearly star doth scorch the ground, 
Or where cold Boreas blows his bitter storms. 
Rome was th' whole world, and all the world was Rome, 
And if things nam'd their names do equalize, 
When land and sea ye name, then name ye R...Read more of this...



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