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Famous Unhurt Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Killigrew, Anne
...cy tye, 
That stronger to the Mast not he,
Than I to Reason bound will be: 
And though your Witchcrafts strike my Ear, 
Unhurt, like him, your Charms I'll hear....Read more of this...



by Brackenridge, Hugh Henry
...How could I weep that we were born so soon, 
In the beginning of more happy times! 
But yet perhaps our fame shall last unhurt. 
The sons of science nobly scorn to die 
Immortal virtue this denies, the muse 
Forbids the men to slumber in the grave 
Who well deserve the praise that virtue gives. 



EUGENIO. 
'Tis true no human eye can penetrate 
The veil obscure, and in fair light disclos'd 
Behold the scenes of dark futurity; 
Yet if we reason from the course of ...Read more of this...

by Graves, Robert
...hield parries each cast.
Clang! clang! and clang! was David’s last. 
Scorn blazes in the Giant’s eye, 
Towering unhurt six cubits high. 
Says foolish David, “Damn your shield! 
And damn my sling! but I’ll not yield.”
He takes his staff of Mamre oak, 
A knotted shepherd-staff that’s broke 
The skull of many a wolf and fox 
Come filching lambs from Jesse’s flocks. 
Loud laughs Goliath, and that laugh
Can scatter chariots like blown chaff 
To rout; but David,...Read more of this...

by Milton, John
...qual what between us made the odds, 
In nature none: If other hidden cause 
Left them superiour, while we can preserve 
Unhurt our minds, and understanding sound, 
Due search and consultation will disclose. 
He sat; and in the assembly next upstood 
Nisroch, of Principalities the prime; 
As one he stood escaped from cruel fight, 
Sore toiled, his riven arms to havock hewn, 
And cloudy in aspect thus answering spake. 
Deliverer from new Lords, leader to free 
Enjoyment...Read more of this...

by Chesterton, G K
...
And the trees talk together
Of many pagan things.

"Yet I could lie and listen
With a cross upon my clay,
And hear unhurt for ever
What the trees of Britain say."

A proud man was the Roman,
His speech a single one,
But his eyes were like an eagle's eyes
That is staring at the sun.

"Dig for me where I die," he said,
"If first or last I fall--
Dead on the fell at the first charge,
Or dead by Wantage wall;

"Lift not my head from bloody ground,
Bear not my body ho...Read more of this...



by Bishop, Elizabeth
...sions.)
But what the Man-Moth fears most he must do, although 
he fails, of course, and falls back scared but quite unhurt.

 Then he returns
to the pale subways of cement he calls his home. He flits,
he flutters, and cannot get aboard the silent trains
fast enough to suit him. The doors close swiftly.
The Man-Moth always seats himself facing the wrong way
and the train starts at once at its full, terrible speed, 
without a shift in gears or a gradation of...Read more of this...

by Bronte, Charlotte
...salvation's helm,
Shielded by faith­with truth begirt,
To smile when trials seek to whelm
And stand 'mid testing fires unhurt ! 
Hurling hell's strongest bulwarks down, 
Even when the last pang thrills my breast, 
When Death bestows the Martyr's crown, 
And calls me into Jesus' rest. 
Then for my ultimate reward­ 
Then for the world-rejoicing word­ 
The voice from Father­Spirit­Son: 
" Servant of God, well hast thou done !"...Read more of this...

by Moore, Marianne
...led fringed frill
 on the hat-brim of Gargallo's hollow iron head of a
 matador, he will drop and will
 then walk away
 unhurt, although if unintruded on,
 he cautiously works down the tree, helped

by his tail. The giant-pangolin-
 tail, graceful tool, as a prop or hand or broom or ax, tipped like
an elephant's trunkwith special skin,
 is not lost on this ant- and stone-swallowing uninjurable
 artichoke which simpletons thought a living fable
 whom the stones had nourish...Read more of this...

by Thomas, Dylan
...est in this life.
Under the skysigns they who have no arms
Have cleanest hands, and, as the heartless ghost
Alone's unhurt, so the blind man sees best....Read more of this...

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