Famous Undefined Poems by Famous Poets

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As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free

...onstructed here, 
(The true New World—the world of orbic Science, Morals, Literatures to come,) 
Thou Wonder World, yet undefined, unform’d—neither do I define thee;
How can I pierce the impenetrable blank of the future? 
I feel thy ominous greatness, evil as well as good; 
I watch thee, advancing, absorbing the present, transcending the past; 
I see thy light lighting and thy shadow shadowing, as if the entire globe; 
But I do not undertake to define thee—hardly to comprehen...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt


I dedicate to your tears

...I dedicate to your tears, to your smile, my gentlest thoughts, those I tell you, those also that remain undefined and too deep to tell.
I dedicate to your tears, to your smile, to your whole soul, my soul, with its tears and its smiles and its kiss.
See, the dawn whitens the ground that is the colour of lees of wine; shadowy bonds seem to slip and glide away with melancholy; the water of the ponds grows bright and sifts its noise; the grass glitters and the ...Read more of this...
by Verhaeren, Emile

In Memory of a Happy Day in February

...m glow?
'Twas sweet, but neither sun nor wind
Could raise my spirit so. 

Was it some feeling of delight,
All vague and undefined?
No, 'twas a rapture deep and strong,
Expanding in the mind! 

Was it a sanguine view of life
And all its transient bliss­-
A hope of bright prosperity?
O no, it was not this! 

It was a glimpse of truth divine
Unto my spirit given
Illumined by a ray of light
That shone direct from heaven! 

I felt there was a God on high
By whom all things were ma...Read more of this...
by Bronte, Anne

Instans Tyrannus

...I.

Of the million or two, more or less,
I rule and possess,
One man, for some cause undefined,
Was least to my mind.

II.

I struck him, he grovelled of course---
For, what was his force?
I pinned him to earth with my weight
And persistence of hate:
And he lay, would not moan, would not curse,
As his lot might be worse.

III.

``Were the object less mean, would he stand
``At the swing of my hand!
``For obscurity helps him and blots
``The ho...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

Renascence

...me down and settled over me;
Forced back my scream into my chest,
Bent back my arm upon my breast,
And, pressing of the Undefined
The definition on my mind,
Held up before my eyes a glass
Through which my shrinking sight did pass
Until it seemed I must behold
Immensity made manifold;
Whispered to me a word whose sound
Deafened the air for worlds around,
And brought unmuffled to my ears
The gossiping of friendly spheres,
The creaking of the tented sky,
The ticking of Eternity....Read more of this...
by St. Vincent Millay, Edna


The Lay of a Golden Goose

...ks. 

They were content to swim and scratch, 
And not at all inclined 
For any wild goose chase in search 
Of something undefined. 

Hard times she had as one may guess, 
That young aspiring bird, 
Who still from every fall arose 
Saddened but undeterred. 

She knew she was no nightingale 
Yet spite of much abuse, 
She longed to help and cheer the world, 
Although a plain gray goose 

She could not sing, she could not fly, 
Nor even walk, with grace, 
And all the farmyard had...Read more of this...
by Alcott, Louisa May

The Siege of Corinth

...lsy unknown. 
It seem'd to those within the wall 
A cry prophetic of their fall: 
It struck even the besieger's ear 
An undefined and sudden thrill, 
Which makes the heart a moment still, 
Then beat with quicker pulse, ashamed 
Of that strange sense its silence framed: 
Such as a sudden passing-bell 
Wakes though but for a stranger's knell. 

XII. 

The tent of Alp was on the shore; 
The sound was hush'd, the prayer was o'er; 
The watch was set, the night-round made, 
All man...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

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