Famous Secreted Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Who abdicated Ambush

by Emily Dickinson
 Who abdicated Ambush
And went the way of Dusk,
And now against his subtle Name
There stands an Asterisk
As confident of him as we --
Impregnable we are --
The whole of Immortality
Secreted in a Star....Read more of this...

Not One by Heaven defrauded stay --

by Emily Dickinson
 Not One by Heaven defrauded stay --
Although he seem to steal
He restitutes in some sweet way
Secreted in his will --...Read more of this...

In Winter in my Room

by Emily Dickinson
 In Winter in my Room
I came upon a Worm --
Pink, lank and warm --
But as he was a worm
And worms presume
Not quite with him at home --
Secured him by a string
To something neighboring
And went along.

A Trifle afterward
A thing occurred
I'd not believe it if I heard
But state with creeping blood --
A snake with mottles rare
Surveyed my chamber floor
In feature as...Read more of this...

Oh Future! thou secreted peace

by Emily Dickinson
 Oh Future! thou secreted peace
Or subterranean woe --
Is there no wandering route of grace
That leads away from thee --
No circuit sage of all the course
Descried by cunning Men
To balk thee of thy sacred Prey --
Advancing to thy Den --...Read more of this...

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