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Famous Unforseen Poems by Famous Poets

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...power to be Flammonde and live.

We cannot know how much we learn 
From those who never will return, 
Until a flash of unforseen 
Remembrance falls on what has been. 
We've each a darkening hill to climb; 
And this is why, from time to time 
In Tilbury Town, we look beyond 
Horizons for the man Flammonde....Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



...No one understood the perfume
of the dark magnolia of your womb.
Nobody knew that you tormented
a hummingbird of love between your teeth.

A thousand Persian little horses fell asleep
in the plaza with moon of your forehead,
while through four nights I embraced
your waist, enemy of the snow.

Between plaster and jasmins, your glance
was a pale branch of se...Read more of this...
by García Lorca, Federico
...hin wash of rain on the roadway 
—I am never afraid when he is driving,— 
interposes new direction, 
rides us sidewise, unforseen 
into the ditch! All threads cut! 
Death! Black. The end. The very end—

I would sit separate weighing a 
small red handful: the dirt of these parts, 
sliding mists sheeting the alders 
against the touch of fingers creeping 
to mine. All stuff of the blind emotions. 
But—stirred, the eye seizes 
for the first time—The eye awake!— 
anything, a dirt ...Read more of this...
by Williams, William Carlos (WCW)
...­a single pin! 

There's hardly anything so small, 
So trifling or so mean,
That we may never want at all, 
For service unforseen: 
And those who venture wilful waste, 
May woeful want expect to taste....Read more of this...
by Taylor, Ann

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