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Famous Obscurities Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...ld not fail to find
      Much proof of ancientry,
Hints at a Pedigree withdrawn and vast,
  Terrible deeps, and old obscurities,
Or soulless origin, and twilight passed
      In the primeval seas,
Whereof it tells, as thinking it hath been
  Of truth not meant for man inheritor;
As if this knowledge Heaven had ne'er foreseen
      And not provided for!
Knowledge ordained to live! although the fate
  Of much that went before it was—to die,
And be called ignorance ...Read more of this...
by Ingelow, Jean



...God 
That you have that; for you are like enough 
To need it now, my friend, and from now on;
For there are shadows and obscurities 
Immediate or impending on your view, 
That may be worse than you have ever painted 
For the bewildered and unhappy scorn 
Of injured Hollanders in Amsterdam
Who cannot find their fifty florins’ worth 
Of Holland face where you have hidden it 
In your new golden shadow that excites them, 
Or see that when the Lord made color and light 
He made no...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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