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Famous Unmissed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...artner to the day
In all our joys. So swift time flew
On silent wings that, ere we wist,
The fleeting years had fled unmissed;
And from our hearts this cry was wrung—
To fill with fond regret and tears
The days of our remaining years—
"When you and I were young, my boy,
When you and I were young."
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by Laurence Dunbar, Paul



...y head, 
 Still chilled in the sunlight, soon I shall have cast, 
 At height of the banquet, my lot with the dead, 
 Unmissed by creation aye joyous and vast. 
 
 TORU DUTT. 


 




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by Hugo, Victor
...o sleek, so prosperously clad!
What see you in that aged wight
 That makes your smile so gay and glad?
What opportunity unmissed?
 What golden gain, what pride of place?
What splendid hope? O Optimist!
 What read you in that withered face?

And You, deep shrinking in the gloom,
 What find you in that filmy gaze?
What menace of a tragic doom?
 What dark, condemning yesterdays?
What urge to crime, what evil done?
 What cold, confronting shape of fear?
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by Service, Robert William

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