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Famous Portrays Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...but the spirit fails in strength of will,--

Fails in conception; wherefore fails it so?

A thousand times her image it portrays;
Enchanting now, and now compell'd to go,

Now indistinct, now clothed in purest rays!
How could the smallest comfort here be flowing?
The ebb and flood, the coming and the going!


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Leave me here now, my life's companions true!

Leave me alone on rock, in moor and heath;
But courage! open lies the world to you,

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