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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The Leaden Echo And The Golden Echo

by Gerard Manley Hopkins
 (Maidens' song from St. Winefred's Well) 


 THE LEADEN ECHO

How to kéep—is there ány any, is there none such, nowhere known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, láce, latch or catch or key to keep
Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty, ... from vanishing away?
Ó is there no frowning of these wrinkles, rankéd wrinkles deep,
Dówn? no waving...Read more of this...

My weary life, that lives unsatisfied

by Fernando Pessoa
My weary life, that lives unsatisfied

On the foiled off-brink of being e'er but this,

To whom the power to will hath been denied

And the will to renounce doth also miss;

My sated life, with having nothing sated,

In the motion of moving poisèd aye,

Within its dreams from its own dreams abated--

This life let the Gods change or take away.

For this endless succession of...Read more of this...

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