Famous Unfurnished Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Did Our Best Moment last

by Emily Dickinson
 Did Our Best Moment last --
'Twould supersede the Heaven --
A few -- and they by Risk -- procure --
So this Sort -- are not given --

Except as stimulants -- in
Cases of Despair --
Or Stupor -- The Reserve --
These Heavenly Moments are --

A Grant of the Divine --
That Certain as it Comes --
Withdraws -- and leaves the dazzled Soul
In her...Read more of this...

Solar

by Philip Larkin
 Suspended lion face
Spilling at the centre
Of an unfurnished sky
How still you stand,
And how unaided
Single stalkless flower
You pour unrecompensed.

The eye sees you
Simplified by distance
Into an origin,
Your petalled head of flames
Continuously exploding.
Heat is the echo of your
Gold.

Coined there among
Lonely horizontals
You exist openly.
Our needs hourly
Climb and return like angels.
Unclosing like a hand,
You give for ever....Read more of this...

To own the Art within the Soul

by Emily Dickinson
 To own the Art within the Soul
The Soul to entertain
With Silence as a Company
And Festival maintain

Is an unfurnished Circumstance
Possession is to One
As an Estate perpetual
Or a reduceless Mine....Read more of this...

Not Revelation -- tis -- that waits

by Emily Dickinson
 Not "Revelation" -- 'tis -- that waits,
But our unfurnished eyes --...Read more of this...

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