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Famous Unbind Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Morris, William
...f she not long enough behind will bide.

"Farewell, and when has come the happy time 
That she Diana's raiment must unbind 
And all the world seems blessed with Saturn's clime, 
And thou with eager arms about her twined 
Beholdest first her gray eyes growing kind,
Surely, O trembler, thou shalt scarcely then 
Forget the Helper of unhappy men."

Milanion raised his head at this last word
For now so soft and kind she seemed to be
No longer of her Godhead was he feared;
...Read more of this...



by Lanier, Sidney
...waters cover thee!
For I am living but thou art dead;
Thou drawest back, I strive ahead
The Day to find.
Thy shells unbind! Night comes behind,
I needs must hurry with the wind
And trim me best for sailing....Read more of this...

by Du Bois, W. E. B.
...gainst the skies,
And shouted:
"Up, I say, build and slay;
Fight face foremost, force a way,
Unloose, unfetter, and unbind;
Be men and free!"
Dumbly they shrank,
Muttering they pointed toward that peak,
Than vastness vaster,
Whereon a darkness brooded,
"Who shall look and live," they sighed;
And I sensed
The folding and unfolding of almighty wings.
Yet did we build of iron, bricks, and blood;
We built a day, a year, a thousand years,
Blood was the mortar,—blood...Read more of this...

by Khayyam, Omar
...thou of wine before thy name shall vanish from
this world, for, when this nectar enters thy heart, sorrow
disappears. Unbind strand by strand the hair of thy
charming idol, before the jointure of thy frame itself is
loosed....Read more of this...

by Moore, Thomas
...in, and unwaked by the wind, 
The lily lies sleeping through winter's cold hour, 
Till Spring's light touch her fetters unbind, 
And daylight and liberty bless the young flower.
Thus Erin, oh Erin, thy winter is past, 
And the hope that lived through it shall blossom at last....Read more of this...



by Yeats, William Butler
...times-troubled years,
Could ever come between
Mind and delighted mind;
And one because her hand
Had strength that could unbind
What none can understand,
What none can have and thrive,
Youth's dreamy load, till she
So changed me that I live
Labouring in ecstasy.
And what of her that took
All till my youth was gone
With scarce a pitying look?
How could I praise that one?
When day begins to break
I count my good and bad,
Being wakeful for her sake,
Remembering what she had,
...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...Late, so late!' 
Which when she heard, the Queen looked up, and said, 
`O maiden, if indeed ye list to sing, 
Sing, and unbind my heart that I may weep.' 
Whereat full willingly sang the little maid. 

`Late, late, so late! and dark the night and chill! 
Late, late, so late! but we can enter still. 
Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now. 

`No light had we: for that we do repent; 
And learning this, the bridegroom will relent. 
Too late, too late! ye can...Read more of this...

by Donne, John
...uff sold, must lose or buy 't again:
The Son of glory came down, and was slain,
Us whom he'd made, and Satan stol'n, to unbind.
'Twas much that man was made like God before,
But, that God should be made like man, much more....Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...Lady, peace: is he not thine and mine?' 
`Thou fool,' she said, `I never heard his voice 
But longed to break away. Unbind him now, 
And thrust him out of doors; for save he be 
Fool to the midmost marrow of his bones, 
He will return no more.' And those, her three, 
Laughed, and unbound, and thrust him from the gate. 

And after this, a week beyond, again 
She called them, saying, `There he watches yet, 
There like a dog before his master's door! 
Kicked, he retu...Read more of this...

by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...ir grief. They sate
With linkèd hands, for unrepelled
Had Helen taken Rosalind's.
Like the autumn wind, when it unbinds
The tangled locks of the nightshade's hair
Which is twined in the sultry summer air
Round the walls of an outworn sepulchre, 
Did the voice of Helen, sad and sweet,
And the sound of her heart that ever beat
As with sighs and words she breathed on her,
Unbind the knots of her friend's despair,
Till her thoughts were free to float and flow;
And from he...Read more of this...

by Petrarch, Francesco
...AN>And with a snare so powerful bound my heart,Death from its fetters only can unbind. Macgregor....Read more of this...

by Robinson, Mary Darby
...that dim thy boasted flame, 
While Folly's torch consumes the wreath of fame,
And Pleasure's hands the sheaves of truth unbind.
Press'd by the storms of Fate, hope shrinks and dies;
Frenzy darts forth in mightiest ills array'd;
Around thy throne destructive tumults rise,
And hell-fraught jealousies, thy rights invade!
Then, what art thou? O! Idol of the wise!
A visionary theme!--a gorgeous shade!...Read more of this...

by Petrarch, Francesco
...N class=i0>That mortal bliss must doubtful still remainTill death from earthly bonds the soul unbind. Charlemont.  Counting the hours, lest I myself misleadBy blind desire wherewith my heart is torn,E'en while I speak away the moments speed,To m...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Mary Darby
...ugh each fibre creeps the subtle pain,
'Till closely round the yielding bosom twin'd.
Vain is the hope the magic to unbind,
The potent mischief riots in the brain,
Grasps ev'ry thought, and burns in ev'ry vein,
'Till in the heart the Tyrant lives enshrin'd.
Oh! Victor strong! bending the vanquish'd frame;
Sweet is the thraldom that thou bid'st us prove!
And sacred is the tear thy victims claim,
For blest are those whom sighs of sorrow move!
Then nymphs beware how ye p...Read more of this...

by Benet, Stephen Vincent
...or all unhonored years. 

"Whether the wanton laughs amain, 
With one white shoulder bare, 
Or in a sacked room you unbind 
Some crouching maiden's hair; 

"This is the only good for man, 
Like spices of the South -- 
To see the glimmering body laid 
As pasture to his mouth! 

"To leave no lees within the cup, 
To see and take and rend; 
To lap a girl's limbs up like wine, 
And laugh, knowing the end!" 

Only, like low, still breathing, 
I heard one voice, one word; 
And ...Read more of this...

by Scott, Sir Walter
...rong,
     My sense of public weal so low,
     That, for mean vengeance on a foe,
     Those cords of love I should unbind
     Which knit my country and my kind?
     O no! Believe, in yonder tower
     It will not soothe my captive hour,
     To know those spears our foes should dread
     For me in kindred gore are red:
     'To know, in fruitless brawl begun,
     For me that mother wails her son,
     For me that widow's mate expires,
     For me that orphan...Read more of this...

by Bronte, Charlotte
...Lough, vessel, plough the British main,
Seek the free ocean's wider plain; 
Leave English scenes and English skies,
Unbind, dissever English ties; 
Bear me to climes remote and strange, 
Where altered life, fast-following change,
Hot action, never-ceasing toil, 
Shall stir, turn, dig, the spirit's soil; 
Fresh roots shall plant, fresh seed shall sow, 
Till a new garden there shall grow, 
Cleared of the weeds that fill it now,­ 
Mere human love, mere selfish yearning, 
Whi...Read more of this...

by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...and fire, the ocean and the wind,
And all their shapes, and man's imperial will;--
And other scrolls whose writings did unbind
The inmost lore of love--let the profane
Tremble to ask what secrets they contain.

And wondrous works of substances unknown,
To which the enchantment of her Father's power
Had changed those ragged blocks of savage stone,
Were heaped in the recesses of her bower;
Carved lamps and chalices, and phials which shone
In their own golden beams--each lik...Read more of this...

by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
...e's glowing revolution pause? 
High omens ask diviner guess; 
Not to be conned to tediousness 
And know my higher gifts unbind 
The zone that girds the incarnate mind. 
When the scanty shores are full 
With Thought's perilous, whirling pool; 
When frail Nature can no more, 
Then the Spirit strikes the hour: 
My servant Death, with solving rite, 
Pours finite into infinite. 
Wilt thou freeze love's tidal flow, 
Whose streams through Nature circling go? 
Nail the wild s...Read more of this...

by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
...glowing revolution pause?
High omens ask diviner guess,
Not to be conned to tediousness.
And know, my higher gifts unbind
The zone that girds the incarnate mind,
When the scanty shores are full
With Thought's perilous whirling pool,
When frail Nature can no more,—
Then the spirit strikes the hour,
My servant Death with solving rite
Pours finite into infinite.
Wilt thou freeze love's tidal flow,
Whose streams through nature circling go?
Nail the star struggling to its...Read more of this...

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