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Famous Portended Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Alighieri, Dante
...ed herein - 
 How long before he cometh!" And plain I knew 
 His words turned sideward from the ending due 
 They first portended. Faster beat my fear, 
 Methinks, than had he framed in words more clear 
 The meaning that his care withheld. 

 I said, 
 "Do others of the hopeless, sinless, dead, 
 Who with thee in the outmost circle dwell, 
 Come ever downward to the narrowing hell 
 That now we traverse?" 
 "Once Erichtho
 fell," 
 He answered, "conjured to such end ...Read more of this...



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