Famous Undoubted Poems by Famous Poets

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

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388. Extempore on some commemorations of Thomson

by Robert Burns
 DOST thou not rise, indignant shade,
 And smile wi’ spurning scorn,
When they wha wad hae starved thy life,
 Thy senseless turf adorn?


Helpless, alane, thou clamb the brae,
 Wi’ meikle honest toil,
And claught th’ unfading garland there—
 Thy sair-worn, rightful spoil.


And wear it thou! and call aloud
 This axiom undoubted—
Would thou hae Nobles’ patronage?
 First learn to live without it!


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On Death

by Percy Bysshe Shelley
 The pale, the cold, and the moony smile
Which the meteor beam of a starless night
Sheds on a lonely and sea-girt isle,
Ere the dawning of morn's undoubted light,
Is the flame of life so fickle and wan
That flits round our steps till their strength is gone.

O man! hold thee on in courage of soul
Through the stormy shades of thy wordly way,
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