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Famous Unacquainted Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...hould be loth
To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence
Of such late wassailers; yet, oh! where else
Shall I inform my unacquainted feet
In the blind mazes of this tangled wood?
My brothers, when they saw me wearied out
With this long way, resolving here to lodge
Under the spreading favour of these pines,
Stepped, as they said, to the next thicket-side
To bring me berries, or such cooling fruit
As the kind hospitable woods provide.
They left me then when the grey-hooded Even...Read more of this...
by Milton, John



...y, or disposition of the fable as may stand best with
verisimilitude and decorum; they only will best judge who are not
unacquainted with Aeschulus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three
Tragic Poets unequall'd yet by any, and the best rule to all who
endeavour to write Tragedy. The circumscription of time wherein
the whole Drama begins and ends, is according to antient rule, and
best example, within the space of 24 hours.



The ARGUMENT.


Samson made Captive, Blind, and now ...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...wn portrait painted.
A cave of mirror
placed on the south wall;
matching smile, matching contour.
And you resembled me; unacquainted
with my face, you wore it. But you were mine
after all.

I wintered in Boston,
childless bride,
nothing sweet to spare
with witches at my side.
I missed your babyhood,
tried a second suicide,
tried the sealed hotel a second year.
On April Fool you fooled me. We laughed and this
was good.

5.

I checked out for the last time
on the first of May;
...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne
...an amazed and overwhelming indignation
At a measureless malfeasance that obscurely willed it thus, 
They were lost and unacquainted—till they found themselves in others, 
Who had groped as they were groping where dim ways were perilous. 

There were lives that were as dark as are the fears and intuitions 
Of a child who knows himself and is alone with what he knows;
There were pensioners of dreams and there were debtors of illusions, 
All to fail before the triumph of a weed...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...hinking how you'll reach to-morrow night, 
You may be a man of sorrows, and on speaking terms with Care, 
And as yet be unacquainted with the Demon of Despair; 
For I rather think that nothing heaps the trouble on your mind 
Like the knowledge that your trousers badly need a patch behind. 

I have noticed when misfortune strikes the hero of the play, 
That his clothes are worn and tattered in a most unlikely way; 
And the gods applaud and cheer him while he whines and loafs a...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry



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