Famous Unhearing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Prayer

...out us as we hear:
Cycles hurry to and fro with giant tread
From the deep unto the deep: but do not fear,
 For the soul unhearing them is dead....Read more of this...
by Crashaw, Richard


Sonnet: At Dover Cliffs July 20th 1787

...oughts that would full fain the past recall,
Soon would he quell the risings of his heart,
And brave the wild winds and unhearing tide,
The world his country, and his God his guide....Read more of this...
by Bowles, William Lisle

The Drug-Shop or Endymion in Edmonstoun

...hatter: "See! 
White Zira thinks of nothing else 
But the morn's jollity -- 

"Then Haroun takes her!" But she dreams, 
Unhearing, of a certain field 
Of poppies, cut by many streams, 
Like lines across a round Turk shield, 
Where now the hot sun gleams. 

The field whereon they walked that day, 
And splendor filled her body up, 
And his; and then the trampled clay, 
And slow smoke climbing the sky's cup 
From where the village lay. 

And after -- much ache of the wrists, 
Wh...Read more of this...
by Benet, Stephen Vincent

X. On Dover Cliffs

...hts, that would full fain the past recall, 
Soon would he quell the risings of his heart, 
And brave the wild winds and unhearing tide, 
The World his country, and his God his guide....Read more of this...
by Bowles, William Lisle

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