Famous Pending Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Examination at the Womb-Door

...m-efficiency eyes? Death.
This wicked little tongue? Death.
This occasional wakefulness? Death.

Given, stolen, or held pending trial?
Held.

Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.
Who owns all of space? Death.

Who is stronger than hope? Death.
Who is stronger than the will? Death.
Stronger than love? Death.
Stronger than life? Death.

But who is stronger than Death?
 Me, evidently.
Pass, Crow....Read more of this...
by Hughes, Ted


Preface To The Second Edition

...this 
country of the incidents of his career, and my sketch was avowedly 
written as a temporary stop-gap, as it were, pending the production 
of some work really deserving the tittle of a life of Goethe. Not 
to mention other contributions to the literature of the subject, 
Mr. Lewis's important volumes give the English reader all the information 
he is likely to require respecting Goethe's career, and my short 
memoir appeared to be no longer required. 

I need scarcely ad...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

The Temporary The All

...ght I,
"Soon a more seemly.

"Then, high handiwork will I make my life-deed,
Truth and Light outshow; but the ripe time pending,
Intermissive aim at the thing sufficeth."
Thus I ... But lo, me!

Mistress, friend, place, aims to be bettered straightway,
Bettered not has Fate or my hand's achieving;
Sole the showance those of my onward earth-track--
Never transcended!...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

To An Unborn Pauper Child

...lt thou take Life so?

Vain vow! No hint of mine may hence
To theeward fly: to thy locked sense
Explain none can
Life's pending plan:
Thou wilt thy ignorant entry make
Though skies spout fire and blood and nations quake.

Fain would I, dear, find some shut plot
Of earth's wide wold for thee, where not
One tear, one qualm,
Should break the calm.
But I am weak as thou and bare;
No man can change the common lot to rare.

Must come and bide. And such are we --
Unreasoning, sangui...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

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