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Famous Suprise Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...cal concern,
buttoned, attentive,

permit yourself anger
and permit me mine

which needs neither
your approval nor your suprise

which does not need to be made legal
which is not against a disease

but agaist you,
which does not need to be understood

or washed or cauterized,
which needs instead

to be said and said.
Permit me the present tense....Read more of this...
by Atwood, Margaret



...untains flash in the rose-white dusk, 
Their shoulders black with rains. . . 
It is morning. I stand by the mirror 
And suprise my soul once more; 
The blue air rushes above my ceiling, 
There are suns beneath my floor. . . 
. . . It is morning, Senlin says, I ascend from darkness 
And depart on the winds of space for I know not where, 
My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket, 
And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair. 
There are shadows across the windows, clouds in h...Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad
...forgot 
That all is here to change, 
A shadow on the commonplace 
Was for a moment strange. 
Yet there was nothing for suprise, 
Nor much that need be told: 
Love, with its gift of pain, had given 
More than one heart could hold....Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...Sunder me from my bones, O sword of God 
Till they stand stark and strange as do the trees; 
That I whose heart goes up with the soaring woods 
May marvel as much at these. 

Sunder me from my blood that in the dark 
I hear that red ancestral river run 
Like branching buried floods that find the sea 
But never see the sun. 

Give me miraculous eyes to see ...Read more of this...
by Chesterton, G K

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