Famous Unobscured Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Sonnets 07: When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face

by Edna St. Vincent Millay
 When I too long have looked upon your face,
Wherein for me a brightness unobscured
Save by the mists of brightness has its place,
And terrible beauty not to be endured,
I turn away reluctant from your light,
And stand irresolute, a mind undone,
A silly, dazzled thing deprived of sight
From having looked too long upon the sun.
Then is my daily life a narrow room
In...Read more of this...

The Revealer

by Edwin Arlington Robinson
 (ROOSEVELT)

He turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion … And the men of the city said unto him, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion?—Judges, 14.


The palms of Mammon have disowned 
The gift of our complacency;...Read more of this...

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