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Famous Unconfessed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lowell, Amy
....
You blazon me with jewelled insignia.
A flaming nebula
Rims in my life. And yet
You set
The word upon me, unconfessed
To go unguessed....Read more of this...



by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...ay with others, who say more, 
That you are groping on a phantom trail 
Determining a dusky way to nowhere;
That errors unconfessed and obstinate 
Have teemed and cankered in you for so long 
That even your eyes are sick, and you see light 
Only because you dare not see the dark 
That is around you and ahead of you.
She might have come, by ruinous estimation 
Of old applause and outworn vanities, 
To clothe you over in a shroud of dreams, 
And so be nearer to the counterf...Read more of this...

by Scott, Sir Walter
...fatal night,
     Or holy church or blessed rite
     But locked her secret in her breast,
     And died in travail, unconfessed.
     VI.

     Alone, among his young compeers,
     Was Brian from his infant years;
     A moody and heart-broken boy,
     Estranged from sympathy and joy
     Bearing each taunt which careless tongue
     On his mysterious lineage flung.
     Whole nights he spent by moonlight pale
     To wood and stream his teal, to wail,
     T...Read more of this...

by Russell, George William
...the deep the deep heart goes,
It lays its sadness nigh the breast:
Only the Mighty Mother knows
The wounds that quiver unconfessed.


It seeks a deeper silence still;
It folds itself around with peace,
Where thoughts alike of good or ill
In quietness unfostered cease.


It feels in the unwounding vast
For comfort for its hopes and fears:
The Mighty Mother bows at last;
She listens to her children’s tears.


Where the last anguish deepens—there
The fire of beauty ...Read more of this...

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