Famous Obscuring Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Obscuring poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous obscuring poems. These examples illustrate what a famous obscuring poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...h sleep-filled hearts and drowsy feet.
Oh, far away and wonderful and sweet
All this, all this. But far too many things
Obscuring, as a cloud of seraph wings
Blinding the seeker for the Lord behind,
I fall away in weariness of mind.
And think how far apart are I and you,
Beloved, from those spirit children who
Felt but one single Being long ago,
Whispering in gentleness and leaning low
Out of its majesty, as child to child.
I think upon it all with heart grown wild.
Hearing n...Read more of this...
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Russell, George William
...Rocks, which, in unimaginable forms,
Lifted their black and barren pinnacles
In the light of evening, and its precipice
Obscuring the ravine, disclosed above,
'Mid toppling stones, black gulfs and yawning caves,
Whose windings gave ten thousand various tongues
To the loud stream. Lo! where the pass expands
Its stony jaws, the abrupt mountain breaks,
And seems with its accumulated crags
To overhang the world; for wide expand
Beneath the wan stars and descending moon
Islanded ...Read more of this...
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Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...less in my Redeemer's Face
I recognize your own --
Of Immortality who doubts
He may exchange with me
Curtailed by your obscuring Face
Of everything but He --
Of Heaven and Hell I also yield
The Right to reprehend
To whoso would commute this Face
For his less priceless Friend.
If "God is Love" as he admits
We think that me must be
Because he is a "jealous God"
He tells us certainly
If "All is possible with" him
As he besides concedes
He will refund us finally
Our confiscat...Read more of this...
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Dickinson, Emily
...cassian -- He is careless --
If He put away
Chrysalis of Blonde -- or Umber --
Equal Butterfly --
They emerge from His Obscuring --
What Death -- knows so well --
Our minuter intuitions --
Deem unplausible --...Read more of this...
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Dickinson, Emily
...having a vital election here.
Save the market? Tear it down? The forces of evil
maintain they're trying to save it too, obscuring,
of course, the issue. The forces of righteousness,
me and my friends, are praying for a storm, one
of those grim dark rolling southwest downpours
that will leave the electorate sane. I'm the last poet
to teach the Roethke chair under Heilman.
He's retiring after 23 years. Most of the old gang
is gone. Sol Katz is aging. Who isn't? It's close now
t...Read more of this...
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Hugo, Richard
...s now in her appears.As oft the face, betrays the heart, we sawClouds that, obscuring her high beauty, came,And in her eyes the dewy trace of tears. Macgregor....Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...ad lap all rivers fall,Nor shadow of high hill, or wood, or wall,Nor heaven-obscuring clouds which torrents make,Nor other obstacles my grief so wake,Whatever most that lovely face may pall,As hiding the bright eyes which me enthrall,That veil which bids my heart "Now burn or break,"And, whether by humility or pride,<...Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...y must,
And only with a furtive recognition
See dust where there is dust,—
Be sure you like it always in your faces,
Obscuring your best graces,
Blinding your speech and sight,
Before you seek again your dusty places
Where the old wrong seems right.
Longer ago than cave-men had their changes
Our fathers may have slain a son o two,
Discouraging a further dialectic
Regarding what was new;
And after their unstudied admonition
Occasional contrition
For their old-fashi...Read more of this...
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Robinson, Edwin Arlington
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