Famous Obstructs Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Mignon

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Poet's art is ever able
To endow with truth mere fable.
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MIGNON.
[This universally known poem is also to be found 
in Wilhelm Meister.]

KNOW'ST thou the land where the fair citron blows,
Where the bright orange midst the foliage glows,
Where soft winds greet us from the azure skies,
Where silent myrtles, stately laurels rise,
Know'st thou it well?

'Tis 
there, 'tis there,
That I with thee, beloved...Read more of this...

Hap

by Thomas Hardy
If but some vengeful god would call to me
From up the sky, and laugh:  "Thou suffering thing,
Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,
That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!"

Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die,
Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;
Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I
Had willed and meted me the tears I shed.

But not...Read more of this...

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