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Famous Hidden Meaning Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...rength Upright reason creator skill Big hall if upset want rafter beam 10,000 oxen turn head mountain weight Not reveal hidden meaning world already amazed Without evade cut down who can send Bitter heart how avoid contain mole crickets ants Fragrant leaves all through reside phoenix Aim scholar secluded person not resent sigh Always timber big hard to use Before Kongming's shrine stands an ancient cypress, Its branches are like green bronze, its r...Read more of this...
by Fu, Du



...ould bring thee night 
 From which were no returning." 
 Ye
 that read 
 With wisdom to discern, ye well may heed 
 The hidden meaning of the truth that lies 
 Beneath the shadow-words of mysteries 
 That here I show ye. 
 While I turned away,

 Across the blackness of the putrid bay, 
 There crashed a thunder of most fearful sound, 
 At which the opposing shores, from bound to bound, 
 Trembled. 
 As when an entering tempest rends 
 The brooding heat, and nought its course c...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante
...all-thoughtfully,
While the dream of the past stood before him;
And when on the minstrel he turned his eye,
His words' hidden meaning stole o'er him;
For seeing the traits of the priest there revealed,
In the folds of his purple-dyed robe he concealed
His tears as they swiftly coursed down.
And all on the emperor wonderingly gazed,
And the blest dispensations of Providence praised,
For the Count and the Caesar were one....Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von
...THE DOUBTERS.

YE love, and sonnets write! Fate's strange behest!

The heart, its hidden meaning to declare,

Must seek for rhymes, uniting pair with pair:
Learn, children, that the will is weak, at best.

Scarcely with freedom the o'erflowing breast

As yet can speak, and well may it beware;

Tempestuous passions sweep each chord that's there,
Then once more sink to night and gentle rest.

Why vex yourselves and us, the heavy stone

Up t...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry