Famous Unbeaten Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Full Fathom Five

by Sylvia Plath
 Old man, you surface seldom.
Then you come in with the tide's coming
When seas wash cold, foam-

Capped: white hair, white beard, far-flung,
A dragnet, rising, falling, as waves
Crest and trough. Miles long

Extend the radial sheaves
Of your spread hair, in which wrinkling skeins
Knotted, caught, survives

The old myth of orgins
Unimaginable. You float near
As kneeled ice-mountains

Of the north, to be steered clear
Of, not fathomed....Read more of this...

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