Famous Unlaced Poems by Famous Poets

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

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An Epitaph

by Walter de la Mare
 ENOUGH; and leave the rest to Fame! 
'Tis to commend her, but to name. 
Courtship which, living, she declined, 
When dead, to offer were unkind: 
Nor can the truest wit, or friend, 
Without detracting, her commend. 

To say--she lived a virgin chaste 
In this age loose and all unlaced; 
Nor was, when vice is so allowed, 
Of virtue or...Read more of this...

The Wounded Breakfast

by Russell Edson
 A huge shoe mounts up from the horizon, 
squealing and grinding forward on small wheels, 
even as a man sitting to breakfast on his veranda 
is suddenly engulfed in a great shadow, almost 
the size of the night . . . 
 He looks up and sees a huge shoe 
ponderously mounting out of the earth. 
 Up in...Read more of this...

Riding Together

by William Morris
 For many, many days together
The wind blew steady from the East;
For many days hot grew the weather,
About the time of our Lady's Feast.

For many days we rode together,
Yet met we neither friend nor foe;
Hotter and clearer grew the weather,
Steadily did the East wind blow.

We saw the trees in the hot, bright weather,
Clear-cut, with shadows very black,
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