Famous Obsolescent Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Obsolescent poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous obsolescent poems. These examples illustrate what a famous obsolescent poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Be thou tonight with all beneath these rafters—be with me.
If I address thee in archaic style—
Words obsolete, words obsolescent,
It is that for a little while
The heart must, oh indeed must from this angry and out-rageous present
Itself withdraw
Into some past in which most crooked Evil,
Although quite certainly conceived and born, was not as yet the Law.
Archaic, or obsolescent at the least,
Be thy grave speaking and the careful words of thy clear song,
For the time wro...Read more of this...
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St. Vincent Millay, Edna
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