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Famous Intruded Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Manrique, Jorge
...are to gain them?—
That were but as the dews around
The meadow places.

His brother then, the unoffending,
Who was intruded on his reign
To act as heir,—
What gallant court was round him bending,
How many a haughty lord was fain
To tend him there!

Yet as but mortal was his station,
Death for his goblet soon distilled
A draught for draining;
O Thou Divine Predestination!—
When most his blaze the world had filled
Thou sent'st the raining!

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by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...des in all the shelves of knowledge
Of how little you found that’s in me and was in me all along. 
I believed, if I intruded nothing on you that I cared for, 
I’d be half as much as horses,—and it seems that I was wrong; 
I believed there was enough of earth in me, with all my nonsense 
Over things that made you sleepy, to keep something still awake;
But you taught me soon to read my book, and God knows I have read it— 
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