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Famous Unachieved Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...being made; 

I think of him as one who fared, 
Unfaltering and undeceived, 
Amid mirages of renown
And urgings of the unachieved; 

I think of him as one who gave 
To Lingard leave to be amused, 
And listened with a patient grace 
That we, the wise ones, had refused;

I think of metres that he wrote 
For Cubit, the ophidian guest: 
“What Lilith, or Dark Lady”… Well, 
Time swallows Cubit with the rest. 

I think of last words that he said
One midnight over Calverly: 
“Go...Read more of this...



by Seeger, Alan
...ed; 
But sometimes, musing sorrowfully there, 
That flowered wreck has seemed to me so fair 
I scarce regret the temple unachieved. 

III 


For there were nights . . . my love to him whose brow 
Has glistened with the spoils of nights like those, 
Home turning as a conqueror turns home, 
What time green dawn down every street uprears 
Arches of triumph! He has drained as well 
Joy's perfumed bowl and cried as I have cried: 
Be Fame their mistress whom Love pa...Read more of this...

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