Famous High Risk Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Sonnet: I said I splendidly loved you; its not true

by Rupert Brooke
 I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true.
Such long swift tides stir not a land-locked sea.
On gods or fools the high risk falls -- on you --
The clean clear bitter-sweet that's not for me.
Love soars from earth to ecstasies unwist.
Love is flung Lucifer-like from Heaven to Hell.
But -- there are wanderers in the middle mist,
Who cry for shadows,...Read more of this...

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