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Famous Ungovernable Poems by Famous Poets

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...re were no trees 
Like those that grew at school—until he came. 
We stood together under it that day, 
When he, by some ungovernable chance, 
All foreign to the former crafty care
That he had used never to cross my favor, 
Told of a lie that stained a friend of mine 
With a false blot that a few days washed off. 
A trifle now, but a boy’s honor then— 
Which then was everything. There were some words
Between us, but I don’t remember them. 
All I remember is a bursting flood 
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by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



...h, the atmosphere and the clouds,
 and what was expected of heaven or fear’d of hell, are now consumed; 
Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it—the response likewise ungovernable; 
Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands, all diffused—mine too
 diffused; 
Ebb stung by the flow, and flow stung by the ebb—love-flesh swelling and deliciously
 aching; 
Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and
 delirious ju...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt
...gh
This dream itself had all my thought and love.

And when the Fool and Blind Man stole the bread
Cuchulain fought the ungovernable sea;
Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said
It was the dream itself enchanted me:
Character isolated by a deed
To engross the present and dominate memory.
players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things that they were emblems of.

 III

Those masterful images because complete
Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?
A ...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler

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