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Famous Impounded Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...leep, until 
We are one, smooth-rounded.
Yet closely bitten in to me 
Is this armour of stiff reluctancy 
That keeps me impounded. 

So, dear love, when another night 
Pours on us, lift your fingers white
And strip me naked, touch me light, 
Light, light all over. 
For I ache most earnestly for your touch,
Yet I cannot move, however much 
I would be your lover.

Night after night with a blemish of day 
Unblown and unblossomed has withered away;
Come another night, come a new ...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.



...r neighbor managed to breed
His great sow:
Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid

In the same way
He kept the sow--impounded from public stare,
Prize ribbon and pig show.

But one dusk our questions commended us to a tour
Through his lantern-lit
Maze of barns to the lintel of the sunk sty door

To gape at it:
This was no rose-and-larkspurred china suckling
With a penny slot

For thrift children, nor dolt pig ripe for heckling,
About to be
Glorified for prime flesh and go...Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia
...Blood has been harder to dam back than water.
Just when we think we have it impounded safe 
Behind new barrier walls (and let it chafe!),
It breaks away in some new kind of slaughter.
We choose to say it is let loose by the devil;
But power of blood itself releases blood.
It goes by might of being such a flood
Held high at so unnatural a level.
It will have outlet, brave and not so brave.
weapons of war and implements of peace
Are b...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert

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