Famous Immature Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A poem on the rising glory of America

...o lay. 
'Twas there O Halkut! thou so nobly fell, 
Thrice valiant Halkut early son of fame! 
We still deplore a fate so immature, 
Fair Albion mourns thy unsuccesful end, 
And Caledonia sheds a tear for him 
Who led the bravest of her sons to war. 



EUGENIO. 
But why alas commemorate the dead? 
And pass those glorious heroes by, who yet 
Breathe the same air and see the light with us? 
The dead, Acasto are but empty names 
And he who dy'd to day the same to us 
As he who dy...Read more of this...
by Brackenridge, Hugh Henry


Crossing Nation

...ry Rubin arrested! Beaten, jailed,
 coccyx broken--
Leary out of action--"a public menace...
 persons of tender years...immature
 judgement...pyschiatric examination..."
i.e. Shut up or Else Loonybin or Slam

Leroi on bum gun rap, $7,000
 lawyer fees, years' negotiations--
SPOCK GUILTY headlined temporary, Joan Baez'
 paramour husband Dave Harris to Gaol
Dylan silent on politics, & safe--
 having a baby, a man--
Cleaver shot at, jail'd, maddened, parole revoked,

Vietnam War ...Read more of this...
by Ginsberg, Allen

Paradise Lost: Book 07

...ent: So even 
And morning chorus sung the second day. 
The Earth was formed, but in the womb as yet 
Of waters, embryon immature involved, 
Appeared not: over all the face of Earth 
Main ocean flowed, not idle; but, with warm 
Prolifick humour softening all her globe, 
Fermented the great mother to conceive, 
Satiate with genial moisture; when God said, 
Be gathered now ye waters under Heaven 
Into one place, and let dry land appear. 
Immediately the mountains huge appear 
Em...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Rabbi Ben Ezra

...:

But all, the world's coarse thumb
And finger failed to plumb,
So passed in making up the main account;
All instincts immature,
All purposes unsure,
That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount:

Thoughts hardly to be packed
Into a narrow act,
Fancies that broke through language and escaped;
All I could never be,
All, men ignored in me,
This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.

Ay, note that Potter's wheel,
That metaphor! and feel
Why time spi...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

The Pros and Cons

...s
And begins (or continues) to suspect that there’s something
Between us.

If I want to and don’t, aren’t I being a bit immature?
We’re both adults. Does it matter, with adults, who makes the
First move?

But there’s always the chance he’ll back off if I come on too strong.
The less keen I appear, the more keen he’s likely to be,

And I phoned him twice on Thursday and once on Friday.
He must therefore be fully aware that it’s his turn, not mine.

If I make it too easy for hi...Read more of this...
by Hannah, Sophie


You

...ou to stay with me

So I could look after you and be there for the birth but your mind

Was set elsewhere end I was too immature to understand or care.



When I saw you again you had Sarah and I had Brenda, my wife-to-be;

Three decades of nightmare ahead with neither of our ‘adult children’

Quite right, both drink to excess and have been on wards.

Nor has your life been a total success, full-time teaching till you retired

Then Victim Support: where’s that sharp mind, tha...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

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