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Famous Ideally Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Riley, James Whitcomb
...masterpiece's history.
He turned--REturned--and thus beguiled
Me with the tale of Orlie Wilde:--

"We artists live ideally:
We breed our firmest facts of air;
We make our own reality--
We dream a thing and it is so.
The fairest scenes we ever see
Are mirages of memory;
The sweetest thoughts we ever know
We plagiarize from Long Ago:
And as the girl on canvas there
Is marvelously rare and fair,
'Tis only inasmuch as she
Is dumb and may not speak to me!"
He tapped me wi...Read more of this...



by Hugo, Victor
...ime.") 
 
 {April, 1871.} 


 Upon the grave's cold mouth there ever have caresses clung 
 For those who died ideally good and grand and pure and young; 
 Under the scorn of all who clamor: "There is nothing just!" 
 And bow to dread inquisitor and worship lords of dust; 
 Let sophists give the lie, hearts droop, and courtiers play the worm, 
 Our martyrs of Democracy the Truth sublime affirm! 
 And when all seems inert upon this seething, troublous round, 
 A...Read more of this...

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