Famous Unifying Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Telling You All

by Rainer Maria Rilke
 Telling you all would take too long.
Besides, we read in the Bible
how the good is harmful
and how misfortune is good.

Let's invite something new
by unifying our silences;
if, then and there, we advance,
we'll know it soon enough.

And yet towards evening,
when his memory is persistent,
one belated curiousity
stops him before the mirror.

We don't know if he is frightened.
But he stays, he is engrossed,
and,...Read more of this...

So Many Blood-Lakes

by Robinson Jeffers
 We have now won two world-wars, neither of which concerned us, we were 
slipped in. We have levelled the powers
Of Europe, that were the powers of the world, into rubble and 
dependence. We have won two wars and a third is comming.

This one--will not be so easy. We were at ease while the powers of the 
world were split...Read more of this...

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