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Famous Openness Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...he grace 
Of youth, in those fair eyes and clustering hair, 
That brow untouched by one faint line of care, 
To mar its openness, we seem to trace 
The front of the first lord of the human race, 
Mid thine own Paradise portrayed so fair, 
Ere Sin or Sorrow scathed it: such the air 
That characters thy youth. Shall time efface 
These lineaments as crowding cares assail! 
It is the lot of fallen humanity. 
What boots it! armed in adamantine mail, 
The unconquerable mind, and ge...Read more of this...
by Bowles, William Lisle



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What is it then? Why, why do you resist? 
Why does your heart host so much cowardice? 
Where are your daring and your openness 


poscia che tai tre donne benedette 
curan di te ne la corte del cielo, 
e 'l mio parlar tanto ben ti promette? ». 

as long as there are three such blessed women 
concerned for you within the court of Heaven 
and my words promise you so great a good?" 


Quali fioretti dal notturno gelo 
chinati e chiusi, poi che 'l sol li 'mbianca 
si drizzan tu...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante
...ng to the rules,
the wool gabardine mix, with its grammatical weave, 
never never destined to lose its elasticity, 
its openness to abandonment, 
its willingness to be disturbed.

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July 11 ... Oaks: the organization of this tree is difficult. Speaking generally 
no doubt the determining planes are concentric, a system of brief contiguous and 
continuous tangents, whereas those of the cedar wd. roughly be called horizontals 
and those of the beech radiating but modified by...Read more of this...
by Graham, Jorie
...came your new friend: you began to change-- 
I saw it and grieved--to slacken and to cool; 
Till taken with her seeming openness 
You turned your warmer currents all to her, 
To me you froze: this was my meed for all. 
Yet I bore up in part from ancient love, 
And partly that I hoped to win you back, 
And partly conscious of my own deserts, 
And partly that you were my civil head, 
And chiefly you were born for something great, 
In which I might your fellow-worker be, 
When t...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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