Famous Heartedness Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Two Octaves

by Edwin Arlington Robinson
 I

Not by the grief that stuns and overwhelms 
All outward recognition of revealed 
And righteous omnipresence are the days 
Of most of us affrighted and diseased, 
But rather by the common snarls of life 
That come to test us and to strengthen us 
In this the prentice-age of discontent, 
Rebelliousness, faint-heartedness, and shame. 


II

When through hot fog the fulgid...Read more of this...

I Approach and I Withdraw

by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
I Approach and I Withdraw (Español)

    Me acerco y me retiro:
¿quién sino yo hallar puedo
a la ausencia en los ojos
la presencia en lo lejos?

    Del desprecio de Filis,
infelice, me ausento.
¡Ay de aquel en quien es
aun pérdida el desprecio!

    Tan atento la adoro
que, en el mal que padezco,
no siento sus rigores
tanto como...Read more of this...

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