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Famous Undergone Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...own.
O supreme Love, chief misery,
The sharp regalia are for Thee
Whose days eternally go on!

XXI

For us, —whatever's undergone,
Thou knowest, willest what is done,
Grief may be joy misunderstood; 
Only the Good discerns the good. 
I trust Thee while my days go on.

XXII

Whatever's lost, it first was won; 
We will not struggle nor impugn. 
Perhaps the cup was broken here, 
That Heaven's new wine might show more clear. 
I praise Thee while my days go on.

XXIII

I praise Th...Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett



...left alone together, and he said: 

'Enid, I have used you worse than that dead man; 
Done you more wrong: we both have undergone 
That trouble which has left me thrice your own: 
Henceforward I will rather die than doubt. 
And here I lay this penance on myself, 
Not, though mine own ears heard you yestermorn-- 
You thought me sleeping, but I heard you say, 
I heard you say, that you were no true wife: 
I swear I will not ask your meaning in it: 
I do believe yourself against...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...
Litigious hands did her of Right deprive, 
That after all 'twas Penance to survive. 
She still these Griefs hath nobly undergone, 
Which few support at all, but better none. 
Such a submissive Greatness who can find? 
A tender Heart with so resolv'd a Mind? 
But she, though sensible, was still the same, 
Of a resigned Soul, untainted Fame, 
Nor were her Vertues coarsly set, for she 
Out-did Example in Civility. 
To bestow blessings, to oblige, relieve, 
Was all for which she...Read more of this...
by Philips, Katherine
...te
Consenting in full frequence was impowered, 
Have found him, viewed him, tasted him; but find
Far other labour to be undergone
Than when I dealt with Adam, first of men,
Though Adam by his wife's allurement fell,
However to this Man inferior far—
If he be Man by mother's side, at least
With more than human gifts from Heaven adorned,
Perfections absolute, graces divine,
And amplitude of mind to greatest deeds.
Therefore I am returned, lest confidence 
Of my success with Eve...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...even interested.

Once on a far off time when I was young, 
I felt with your assurance, and all through me, 
That I had undergone the last and worst 
Of love’s inventions. There was a boy who brought 
The sun with him and woke me up with it,
And that was every morning; every night 
I tried to dream of him, but never could, 
More than I might have seen in Adam’s eyes 
Their fond uncertainty when Eve began 
The play that all her tireless progeny
Are not yet weary of. One scene ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



...food--even from the thirst
Of death, and nothingness, and rest,
Strange inmate of a living breast,
Which all that I had undergone
Of grief and shame, since she who first
The gates of that dark refuge closed
Came to my sight, and almost burst
The seal of that Lethean spring--
But these fair shadows interposed. 
For all delights are shadows now!
And from my brain to my dull brow
The heavy tears gather and flow.
I cannot speak--oh, let me weep!

The tears which fell from her wan...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...gh they pleased, they were not heard at all.

This was the lock that lay upon our lips,
 This was the yoke that we have undergone,
Denying us all pleasant fellowships
 As in our time and generation.
Our pleasures unpursued age past recall,
And for our pains--we are not heard at all.

What man hears aught except the groaning guns?
 What man heeds aught save what each instant brings?
When each man's life all imaged life outruns,
 What man shall pleasure in imaginings?
So it hat...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard
...
Meanwhile, we suffer; and I come to you, 
At last, through many storms and through much night.

Yet whatsoever I have undergone, 
My keepers in this instance are not hard. 
But for the chance of an ingratitude, 
I might indeed be curious of their mercy, 
And fearful of their leisure while I wait,
A few leagues out of Rome. Men go to Rome, 
Not always to return—but not that now. 
Meanwhile, I seem to think you look at me 
With eyes that are at last more credulous 
Of my iden...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...poorly run away from fate;
'Tis braver much t'out-ride the storm,
Endure its rages and shun his harm;
Affliction nobly undergone,
More Greatness shews than having none.
But yet the Wheel in turning round,
At last may lift us from the ground,
And when our Fortune's most severe,
The less we have, the less we fear.
And why should we that grief permit,
Which can nor mend nor shorten it?
Let's wait for a succeeding good,
Woes have their Ebb as well as flood:
And since Parliament ...Read more of this...
by Philips, Katherine

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