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Famous Foretaste Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...rued arrears of ancestors
Who throve on debts that I was here to pay, 
Or sins within me that I knew not of, 
Or just a foretaste of what waits in hell 
For those of us who cannot love a worm,— 
Whatever it was, or whence or why it was,
One day there came a stranger to the school. 
And having had one mordacious glimpse of him 
That filled my eyes and was to fill my life, 
I have known Peace only as one more word 
Among the many others we say over
That have an airy credit of n...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



...d come where he was ascended
to reign over men's hearts in the Kingdom of God.
Our happiest earthly comradeships hold a foretaste
of the feast of salvation and by thatt virtue in them
provoke desire beyond them to out-reach and surmount
their humanity in some superhumanity
and ultimat perfection: which, howe'ever 'tis found
or strangeley imagin'd, answereth to the need of each
and pulleth him instinctivly as to a final cause.
Thus unto all who hav found their high ideal in Ch...Read more of this...
by Bridges, Robert Seymour
...itant 
Of increase or of want 
Has made an otherwise insensate waste
Of ages overthrown 
A ruthless, veiled, implacable foretaste 
Of other ages that are still to be 
Depleted and rewarded variously 
Because a few, by fate’s economy,
Shall seem to move the world the way it goes; 
No soft evangel of equality, 
Safe-cradled in a communal repose 
That huddles into death and may at last 
Be covered well with equatorial snows—
And all for what, the devil only knows— 
Will aggregat...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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All peoples are at times cat in water with this language
but it does promote international bird on shoulder.
This foretaste now lays its knife and fork parallel....Read more of this...
by Murray, Les

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