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Famous Tainting Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ts after deserts, voidly one,

Doth undermine the very dreaming powers

And dull even thought's active inaction,

Tainting with fore-unwilled will the dreamed act

Twice thus removed from the unobtained fact....Read more of this...
by Pessoa, Fernando



...nd not my scornèd self who prayed to thee!

ROSALIND
Is it a dream, or do I see 
And hear frail Helen? I would flee
Thy tainting touch; but former years
Arise, and bring forbidden tears;
And my o'erburdened memory
Seeks yet its lost repose in thee.
I share thy crime. I cannot choose
But weep for thee; mine own strange grief
But seldom stoops to such relief;
Nor ever did I love thee less,
Though mourning o'er thy wickedness 
Even with a sister's woe. I knew
What to the evil wo...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...;
Only not within seeing of the sun,
Not within the singeing of the strong sun,
Tall sun's tingeing, or treacherous the tainting of the earth's air,
Somewhere elsewhere there is ah well where! one,
Oné. Yes I can tell such a key, I do know such a place,
Where whatever's prized and passes of us, everything that 's fresh and fast flying of us, seems to us sweet of us and swiftly away with, done away with, undone,
Undone, done with, soon done with, and yet dearly and dangerously...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

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