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Famous Unchain Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Bryant, William Cullen
...s and follies by? 
O from these sterner aspects of thy face 
Spare me and mine nor let us need the wrath 
Of the mad unchain¨¨d elements to teach 115 
Who rules them. Be it ours to meditate  
In these calm shades thy milder majesty  
And to the beautiful order of thy works 
Learn to conform the order of our lives. ...Read more of this...



by Petrarch, Francesco
...AN>In toils he holds me not, nor will release;He slays me not, nor yet will he unchain;Nor joy allows, nor lets my sorrow cease.Sightless I see my fair; though mute, I mourn;I scorn existence, and yet court its stay;Detest myself, and for another burn;By grief I'm nurtured; and, though tearful, gay;Read more of this...

by Hardy, Thomas
...

I fared Yell'ham-Firs way, where dimly 
 Came wheeling around me 
Those phantoms obscure and insistent 
 That shadows unchain. 

Till airs from the needle-thicks brought me 
 A low lamentation, 
As 'twere of a tree-god disheartened, 
 Perplexed, or in pain. 

And, heeding, it awed me to gather 
 That Nature herself there 
Was breathing in aerie accents, 
 With dirgeful refrain, 

Weary plaint that Mankind, in these late days, 
 Had grieved her by holding 
Her ancien...Read more of this...

by Moore, Marianne
...had nourished, whereas ants had done
 so. Pangolins are not aggressive animals; between
 dusk and day they have not unchain-like machine-like
 form and frictionless creep of a thing
 made graceful by adversities, con-

versities. To explain grace requires
 a curious hand. If that which is at all were not forever,
why would those who graced the spires
 with animals and gathered there to rest, on cold luxurious
 low stone seats--a monk and monk and monk--between the...Read more of this...

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