Famous Undertaken Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Alexandreis

...t a debt Time owes unto thy Fame. 

This was the first Essay of this young Lady in Poetry, but finding the Task she had undertaken hard, she laid it by till Practice and more time should make her equal to so great a Work....Read more of this...
by Killigrew, Anne


Dream Song 46: I am outside. Incredible

...ce of love & law.
Millenia whift & waft-”one, one-”er, er. . .
Their glasses were taken from them, & they saw.

Man has undertaken the top job of all,
son fin. Good luck.
I myself walked at the funeral of tenderness.
Followed other deaths. Among the last,
like the memory of a lovely ****,
was: Do, ut des....Read more of this...
by Berryman, John

Inferno Canto02

...tosta. 

so was I in the midst of that dark land, 
because, with all my thinking, I annulled 
the task I had so quickly undertaken. 


«S'i' ho ben la parola tua intesa», 
rispuose del magnanimo quell'ombra; 
«l'anima tua ? da viltade offesa ; 

"If I have understood what you have said," 
replied the shade of that great-hearted one, 
"your soul has been assailed by cowardice, 


la qual molte fiate l'omo ingombra 
s? che d'onrata impresa lo rivolve, 
come falso veder bestia q...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Light Hearted Author

...with their green.
The world is gone, torn into shreds 
with this blessing. What have I left undone 
that I should have undertaken? 
O my brother, you redfaced, living man 
ignorant, stupid whose feet are upon 
this same dirt that I touch—and eat. 
We are alone in this terror, alone, 
face to face on this road, you and I, 
wrapped by this flame! 
Let the polished plows stay idle, 
their gloss already on the black soil.
But that face of yours—! 
Answer me. I will clutch you. I...Read more of this...
by Williams, William Carlos (WCW)

Preface to Hunting of the Snark

...next 
varnishing day. During these bewildering intervals the ship usually 
sailed backwards. 

This office was usually undertaken by the Boots, who found in it 
a refuge from the Baker's constant complaints about the insufficient 
blacking of his three pairs of boots. 

As this poem is to some extent connected with the lay of the 
Jabberwock, let me take this opportunity of answering a question that 
has often been asked me, how to pronounce ``slithy toves''. The 
``i'' in `...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis


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