Famous Unowned Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Comus

...ess it recks me not;
I fear the dread events that dog them both,
Lest some ill-greeting touch attempt the person
Of our unowned sister.
 ELD. BRO. I do not, brother,
Infer as if I thought my sister's state
Secure without all doubt or controversy;
Yet, where an equal poise of hope and fear
Does arbitrate the event, my nature is
That I incline to hope rather than fear,
And gladly banish squint suspicion.
My sister is not so defenceless left
As you imagine; she has a hidden stre...Read more of this...
by Milton, John


Honors - Part Ii

...t if HE is—by whom our years
Are portioned, who the orphan moons doth lead,
      And the unfathered spheres.
We sit unowned upon our burial sod
  And know not whence we come or whose we be,
Comfortless mourners for the mount of God,
      The rocks of Calvary:
Bereft of heaven, and of the long-loved page
  Wrought us by some who thought with death to cope.
Despairing comforters, from age to age
      Sowing the seeds of hope:
Gracious deceivers, who have lifted us...Read more of this...
by Ingelow, Jean

Run to Death

...rth from which they came.
As they slow rode back those huntsmen neither laughed, nor sang, nor spoke,
Hap, there lurked unowned within them throbbings of a secret shame.
But before the flow'ry terrace, where the ladies smiling sat,
With their graceful nothings trifling all the weary time away,
Low Lord Gaston bowed, and raising high his richly 'broider'd hat,
'Fairest ladies, give us welcome! 'Twas a famous hunt to-day.'...Read more of this...
by Levy, Amy

Sonnet 36 - When we met first and loved I did not build

.... O love, O troth . . .
Lest these enclasped hands should never hold,
This mutual kiss drop down between us both
As an unowned thing, once the lips being cold.
And Love, be false! if he, to keep one oath,
Must lose one joy, by his life's star foretold....Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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