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Famous Unclench Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ape,
Trembles, as, doubly terrible, at length,
Thy steps o'ertake him, and there is no time
For parley--nor will bribes unclench thy grasp.
Oft, too, dost thou reform thy victim, long
Ere his last hour. And when the reveller,
Mad in the chase of pleasure, stretches on,
And strains each nerve, and clears the path of life
Like wind, thou point'st him to the dreadful goal,
And shak'st thy hour-glass in his reeling eye,
And check'st him in mid course. Thy skeleton hand
Shows to t...Read more of this...
by Bryant, William Cullen



...headland—my own hands carried me there. 

You villian touch! what are you doing? My breath is tight in its throat; 
Unclench your floodgates! you are too much for me. 

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Blind, loving, wrestling touch! sheath’d, hooded, sharp-tooth’d touch!

Did it make you ache so, leaving me?

Parting, track’d by arriving—perpetual payment of perpetual loan; 
Rich, showering rain, and recompense richer afterward. 

Sprouts take and accumulate—stand by the curb prolific and v...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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