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Famous Impedes Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Robinson, Mary Darby
...nheeded play,
While we hope our pangs concealing,
Vainly hope to check his sway. 

If amidst the glassy river
Aught impedes its placid course,
Ah ! it glides more swift than ever,
While opposing gives it force;
So when HOPE and PASSION blending,
Warm the feeble trembling frame;
REASON sickens by contending,
Fanning only feeds the flame....Read more of this...



by Alighieri, Dante
...ore whom Hell quietened and cowered. My theme, 
 With thronging recollections of mighty names 
 That there I marked impedes me. All too long 
 They chase me, envious that my burdened song 
 Forgets. - But onward moves my guide anew: 
 The light behind us fades: the six are two: 
 Again the shuddering air, the cries of Hell 
 Compassed, and where we walked the darkness fell. 





Canto V 



 MOST like the spirals of a pointed shell, 
 But separate each, go do...Read more of this...

by Cowper, William
...me,
And we are weeds without it. All constraint,
Except what wisdom lays on evil men,
Is evil; hurts the faculties, impedes
Their progress in the road of science; blinds
The eyesight of discovery, and begets,
In those that suffer it, a sordid mind
Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit
To be the tenant of man's noble form.
Thee therefore, still, blameworthy as thou art,
With all thy loss of empire, and though squeez'd
By public exigence till annual food
Fails for the crav...Read more of this...

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