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Famous Undreamed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
...wer believing,
Because thou didst not fail.

Not thine alone the glory, nor the sorrow,
If thou doth miss the goal,
Undreamed of lives in many a far to-morrow
From thee their weakness or their force shall borrow –
On, on, ambitious soul....Read more of this...



by Browning, Robert
...stes starved small, 
And take at once to his impoverished brain 
The sudden element that changes things, 
That sets the undreamed-of rapture at his hand 
And puts the cheap old joy in the scorned dust? 
Is he not such an one as moves to mirth-- 
Warily parsimonious, when no need, 
Wasteful as drunkenness at undue times? 
All prudent counsel as to what befits 
The golden mean, is lost on such an one 
The man's fantastic will is the man's law. 
So here--we call the treasure...Read more of this...

by Browning, Robert
...? 

You meet me at this issue: you declare,-- 
All special-pleading done with--truth is truth, 
And justifies itself by undreamed ways. 
You don't fear but it's better, if we doubt, 
To say so, act up to our truth perceived 
However feebly. Do then,--act away! 
'T is there I'm on the watch for you. How one acts 
Is, both of us agree, our chief concern: 


And how you'll act is what I fain would see 
If, like the candid person you appear, 
You dare to make the most...Read more of this...

by Levine, Philip
...guaranteed programs of
exercise, the elaborate lies
of conquest no one believed,
forms of sexual torture and
rejection undreamed of. Ahead
lay our fifteenth birthdays,
acne, deodorants, crabs, salves,
butch haircuts, draft registration,
the military and political victories
of Dwight Eisenhower, who brought us
Richard Nixon with wife and dog.
Any wonder we tried gin....Read more of this...

by Browning, Robert
...ust,
If I gave him what he praised
Was it strange?

VIII.

Would he loved me yet,
On and on,
While I found some way undreamed
---Paid my debt!
Gave more life and more,
Till, all gone,
He should smile ``She never seemed
``Mine before.

IX.

``What, she felt the while,
``Must I think?
``Love's so different with us men!''
He should smile:
``Dying for my sake---
``White and pink!
``Can't we touch these bubbles then
``But they break?''

X.

Dear, the pang is brief,...Read more of this...



by Kipling, Rudyard
...Through learned and laborious years
 They set themselves to find
Fresh terrors and undreamed-of fears
 To heap upon mankind.

ALl that they drew from Heaven above
 Or digged from earth beneath,
They laid into their treasure-trove
 And arsenals of death:

While, for well-weighed advantage sake,
 Ruler and ruled alike
Built up the faith they meant to break
 When the fit hour should strike.

They traded with the careless earth,
 And g...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...one 
Two gardens that are now his own; 
’Tis Oliver who sows and reaps 
And listens, while the other sleeps, 
For songs undreamed of and unknown.

’Tis he, the gentle anchorite, 
Who listens for them day and night; 
But most he hears them in the dawn, 
When from his trees across the lawn 
Birds ring the chorus of the light.

He cannot sing without the voice, 
But he may worship and rejoice 
For patience in him to remain, 
The chosen heir of age and pain, 
Instead of O...Read more of this...

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