Famous Irredeemable Poems by Famous Poets

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

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This night is irredeemable

by Osip Mandelstam
 This night is irredeemable.
Where you are, it is still bright.
At the gates of Jerusalem,
a black sun is alight.

The yellow sun is hurting,
sleep, baby, sleep.
The Jews in the Temple’s burning
buried my mother deep.

Without rabbi, without blessing,
over her ashes, there,
the Jews in the Temple’s burning
chanted the prayer.

Over this mother,
Israel’s voice was sung.
I woke in a glittering cradle,
lit by a black sun....Read more of this...

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