Famous Unite Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Dialogue between Old England and New

...ke of
York nor Earl of March to soil
70 Their hands in Kindred's blood whom they did foil;
71 No need of Tudor Roses to unite:
72 None knows which is the Red or which the White.
73 Spain's braving Fleet a second time is sunk.
74 France knows how of my fury she hath drunk
75 By Edward third and Henry fifth of fame;
76 Her Lilies in my Arms avouch the same.
77 My Sister Scotland hurts me now no more,
78 Though she hath been injurious heretofore.
79 What Holland is, I am in some...Read more of this...
by Bradstreet, Anne


A Gleam Of Sunshine

...ed,
Let me review the scene,
And summon from the shadowy Past
The forms that once have been.

The Past and Present here unite
Beneath Time's flowing tide,
Like footprints hidden by a brook,
But seen on either side.

Here runs the highway to the town;
There the green lane descends,
Through which I walked to church with thee,
O gentlest of my friends!

The shadow of the linden-trees
Lay moving on the grass;
Between them and the moving boughs,
A shadow, thou didst pass.

Thy dre...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

A Poets Voice XV

...ngst themselves. The world is narrow and it is unwise to cleave it into kingdoms, empires, and provinces. 

Human kinds unite themselves one to destroy the temples of the soul, and they join hands to build edifices for earthly bodies. I stand alone listening to the voice of hope in my deep self saying, "As love enlivens a man's heart with pain, so ignorance teaches him the way of knowledge." Pain and ignorance lead to great joy and knowledge because the Supreme Being has crea...Read more of this...
by Gibran, Kahlil

Absalom And Achitophel

...Proud Egypt would dissembled friendship bring;
Foment the war, but not support the king:
Nor would the royal party e'er unite
With Pharaoh's arms, t'assist the Jebusite;
Or if they should, their interest soon would break,
And with such odious aid, make David weak.
All sorts of men, by my successful arts,
Abhorring kings, estrange their alter'd hearts
From David's rule: And 'tis the general Cry,
Religion, Common-wealth, and Liberty.
If, you, as champion of the public good,
Add...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John

An Essay On Criticism

...well-proportion'd Dome,
The World's just Wonder, and ev'n thine O Rome!)
No single Parts unequally surprize;
All comes united to th' admiring Eyes;
No monstrous Height, or Breadth, or Length appear;
The Whole at once is Bold, and Regular.

Whoever thinks a faultless Piece to see,
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.
In ev'ry Work regard the Writer's End,
Since none can compass more than they Intend;
And if the Means be just, the Conduct true,
Applause, in spite ...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander


Custer

...s true province; and to ease the pain
Of those o'er whom it is his purpose now to reign.


XXVII.
'Let the strong chief unite with theirs his life, 
And take this black-eyed maiden for a wife.'
Then, moving with an air of proud command, 
She leads a dusky damsel by the hand, 
And places her at wondering Custer's side, 
Invoking choicest blessings on the bride
And all unwilling groom, who thus replies.
'Fair is the Indian maid, with bright bewildering eyes, 



XXVIII.
'But fa...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Last Instructions to a Painter

...crepit Aeson, hashed and stewed, 
With bitter herbs, rose from the pot renewed, 
And with fresh age felt his glad limbs unite; 
His gout (yet still he cursed) had left him quite. 
What frosts to fruit, what arsenic to the rat, 
What to fair Denham, mortal chocolate, 
What an account to Carteret, that, and more, 
A Parliament is to the Chancellor. 
So the Sad-tree shrinks from the morning's eye, 
But blooms all night and shoots its branches high. 
So, at the sun's recess, agai...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

Paradise Lost: Book 04

...
Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, 
Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill 
Watered the garden; thence united fell 
Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, 
Which from his darksome passage now appears, 
And now, divided into four main streams, 
Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm 
And country, whereof here needs no account; 
But rather to tell how, if Art could tell, 
How from that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, 
Rolling on orient pearl an...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paradise Lost: Book 09

...d strength; while shame, thou looking on, 
Shame to be overcome or over-reached, 
Would utmost vigour raise, and raised unite. 
Why shouldst not thou like sense within thee feel 
When I am present, and thy trial choose 
With me, best witness of thy virtue tried? 
So spake domestick Adam in his care 
And matrimonial love; but Eve, who thought 
Less attributed to her faith sincere, 
Thus her reply with accent sweet renewed. 
If this be our condition, thus to dwell 
In narrow ci...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paradise Lost: Book 10

...arge 
Beyond this deep; whatever draws me on, 
Or sympathy, or some connatural force, 
Powerful at greatest distance to unite, 
With secret amity, things of like kind, 
By secretest conveyance. Thou, my shade 
Inseparable, must with me along; 
For Death from Sin no power can separate. 
But, lest the difficulty of passing back 
Stay his return perhaps over this gulf 
Impassable, impervious; let us try 
Adventurous work, yet to thy power and mine 
Not unagreeable, to found a pa...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Sleepers The

...ns,
 and
 the far
 behind are to come on in their turns, 
The diverse shall be no less diverse, but they shall flow and unite—they unite now.

20
The sleepers are very beautiful as they lie unclothed, 
They flow hand in hand over the whole earth, from east to west, as they lie unclothed, 
The Asiatic and African are hand in hand—the European and American are hand in hand, 
Learn’d and unlearn’d are hand in hand, and male and female are hand in hand, 
The bare arm of the girl ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Artists

...etters bound,
Unsociable and rude as be,
Assailing him on every side around,--
Thus seemed to man creation in that day!
United to surrounding forms alone
By the blind chains the passions had put on,
Whilst Nature's beauteous spirit fled away
Unfelt, untasted, and unknown.

And, as it hovered o'er with parting ray,
Ye seized the shades so neighborly,
With silent hand, with feeling mind,
And taught how they might be combined
In one firm bond of harmony.
The gaze, light-soaring,...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

The Lady of the Lake

...d,
     And by the hatchet rudely squared,
     To give the walls their destined height,
     The sturdy oak and ash unite;
     While moss and clay and leaves combined
     To fence each crevice from the wind.
     The lighter pine-trees overhead
     Their slender length for rafters spread,
     And withered heath and rushes dry
     Supplied a russet canopy.
     Due westward, fronting to the green,
     A rural portico was seen,
     Aloft on native pillars bo...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

...ile them seeks to
destroy existence. 
Religion is an endeavour to reconcile the two.
Note. Jesus Christ did not wish to unite but to seperate
them, as in the Parable of sheep and goats! & he says I came not
to send Peace but a Sword.
Messiah or Satan or Tempter was formerly thought to be one of
the Antediluvians who are our Energies.


A Memorable Fancy


An Angel came to me and said. O pitiable foolish young man!
O horrible! O dreadful state! consider the hot burning dungeon...Read more of this...
by Blake, William

The Medal

...ther they beguile. 
Customs to steal is such a trivial thing 
That 'tis their charter to defraud their King. 
All hands unite of every jarring sect; 
They cheat the country first, and then infect. 
They for God's cause their monarchs dare dethrone, 
And they'll be sure to make His cause their own. 
Whether the plotting Jesuit laid the plan 
Of murdering kings, or the French Puritan, 
Our sacrilegious sects their guides outgo 
And kings and kingly power would murder too. 

Wha...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John

The Miseries of Man

...s, a seeming Frown;
Close at its mossie Foot an aged Wood,
Compos'd of various Trees, there long has stood,
Whose thick united Tops scorn the Sun's Ray,
And hardly will admit the Eye of Day. 
By oblique windings through this gloomy Shade,
Has a clear purling Stream its Passage made,
The Nimph, as discontented seem'd t'ave chose
This sad Recess to murmur forth her Woes. 
 To this Retreat, urg'd by tormenting Care, 
The melancholly Cloris did repair, 

As a fit Place to take th...Read more of this...
by Killigrew, Anne

The Rape of the Lock

...oil.
This Casket India's glowing Gems unlocks,
And all Arabia breathes from yonder Box.

The Tortoise here and Elephant unite,
Transform'd to Combs, the speckled and the white.
Here Files of Pins extend their shining Rows,
Puffs, Powders, Patches, Bibles, Billet-doux.
Now awful Beauty puts on all its Arms;
The Fair each moment rises in her Charms, 
Repairs her Smiles, awakens ev'ry Grace,
And calls forth all the Wonders of her Face;
Sees by Degrees a purer Blush arise,
And ke...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

The Vision of Judgment

...s'd in a fashion now forgotten quite; 
For all the fashions of the flesh stick long 
By people in the next world; where unite 
All the costumes since Adam's, right or wrong, 
From Eve's fig-leaf down to the petticoat, 
Almost as scanty, of days less remote. 

LXVII 

The spirit look'd around upon the crowds 
Assembled, and exclaim'd, 'My friends of all 
The spheres, we shall catch cold amongst these clouds; 
So let's to business: why this general call? 
If those are freeholde...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The Witch Of Atlas

...e warm and kind.
Friends who, by practice of some envious skill,
Were torn apart (a wide wound, mind from mind)
She did unite again with visions clear
Of deep affection and of truth sincere.

These were the pranks she played among the cities
Of mortal men. And what she did to Sprites
And Gods, entangling them in her sweet ditties,
To do her will, and show their subtle sleights,
I will declare another time; for it is
A tale more fit for the weird winter-nights
Than for these g...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

V

...t.

If buried ashes saw then I'd survey
the places I learned Latin, and learned Greek,
and left, the ground where Leeds United play
but disappoint their fans week after week,

which makes them lose their sense of self-esteem
and taking a short cut home through these graves here
they reassert the glory of their team
by spraying words on tombstones, pissed on beer.

This graveyard stands above a worked-out pit.
Subsidence makes the obelisks all list.
One leaning left's marked F...Read more of this...
by Harrison, Tony

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