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Famous Obtrusive Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Service, Robert William
...MUD,
 MUD,
 MUD.

It isn't the melee we mind.
That often is rather good fun.
 It isn't the shrapnel we find
Obtrusive when rained by the ton;
 It isn't the bounce of the bombs
That gives us a positive pain:
 It's the strafing we get
When the weather is wet --
 It's the RAIN,
 RAIN,
 RAIN.

It isn't because we lack grit
 We shrink from the horrors of war.
We don't mind the battle a bit;
 In fact that is what we are for;
It isn't the rum-jars and things
 Mak...Read more of this...



by Robinson, Mary Darby
...pt in REFLECTION, let me trace 
O'er the vast ethereal space, 
Stars, whose twinkling fires illume 
Dark-brow'd NIGHT'S obtrusive gloom; 
Where across the concave wide; 
Flaming METEORS swiftly glide; 
Or along the milky way, 
Vapours shoot a silvery ray;
And as I mark, thy faint reclining head, 
Sinking on Ocean's pearly bed;
Let REASON tell my soul, thus all things fade. 

The Seasons change, the "garish SUN"
When Day's burning car hath run
Its fiery course, no more we ...Read more of this...

by Milton, John
...modesty, 
Her virtue, and the conscience of her worth, 
That would be wooed, and not unsought be won, 
Not obvious, not obtrusive, but, retired, 
The more desirable; or, to say all, 
Nature herself, though pure of sinful thought, 
Wrought in her so, that, seeing me, she turned: 
I followed her; she what was honour knew, 
And with obsequious majesty approved 
My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower 
I led her blushing like the morn: All Heaven, 
And happy constellations, o...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Mary Darby
...or ah ! where'er the virgin goes, 
Each flow'ret greets her with a tear 
To sympathetic sorrow dear; 
And when in black obtrusive clouds 
The chilly MOON her pale cheek shrouds, 
I mark the twinkling starry train 
Exulting glitter in her wane, 
And proudly gleam their borrow'd light 
To gem the sombre dome of night. 
Then o'er the meadows cold and bleak, 
The glow-worm's glimm'ring lamp I seek. 
Or climb the craggy cliff to gaze 
On some bright planet's azure blaze, 
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by Browning, Robert
...owing it:
For though the moment I began setting
His saddle on my own nag of Berold's begetting,
(Not that I meant to be obtrusive)
She stopped me, while his rug was shifting,
By a single rapid finger's lifting,
And, with a gesture kind but conclusive,
And a little shake of the head, refused me,---
I say, although she never used me,
Yet when she was mounted, the Gipsy behind her,
And I ventured to remind her,
I suppose with a voice of less steadiness
Than usual, for my feeling...Read more of this...



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