Famous Inducing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Original Preface

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a 
work of the character of that indicated by the title-page to the 
present volume; for, difficult as it must always be to render satisfactorily 
into one's own tongue the writings of the bards of other lands, 
the responsibility assumed by the translator is immeasurably increased 
when...Read more of this...

(Greek Title)

by Thomas Hardy
 Long have I framed weak phantasies of Thee, 
 O Willer masked and dumb! 
 Who makest Life become, - 
As though by labouring all-unknowingly, 
 Like one whom reveries numb. 

How much of consciousness informs Thy will 
 Thy biddings, as if blind, 
 Of death-inducing kind, 
Nought shows to us ephemeral ones who fill 
 But moments...Read more of this...

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