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Famous Unpleasing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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..., and thus to die!
Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I.

O friend! may each domestic bliss be thine!
Be no unpleasing melancholy mine:
Me, let the tender office long engage
To rock the cradle of reposing age,
With lenient arts extend a mother's breath,
Make langour smile, and smooth the bed of death,
Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,
And keep a while one parent from the sky!
On cares like these if length of days attend,
May Heav'n, to bless those days,...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander



...t, 
The cuckoo then, on every tree, 
Mocks married men, for thus sings he: 
'Cuckoo! 
Cuckoo, cuckoo!' O word of fear, 
Unpleasing to a married ear. 
When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, 
And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, 
When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, 
And maidens bleach their summer smocks, 
The cuckoo then, on every tree, 
Mocks married men, for thus sings he: 
'Cuckoo! 
Cuckoo, cuckoo!' O word of fear, 
Unpleasing to a married ear....Read more of this...
by Fletcher, John Gould
...t, 
The cuckoo then, on every tree, 
Mocks married men; for thus sings he, 
 Cuckoo! 
Cuckoo, cuckoo!--O word of fear, 
Unpleasing to a married ear! 

When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, 
 And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, 
When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, 
 And maidens bleach their summer smocks 
The cuckoo then, on every tree, 
Mocks married men; for thus sings he, 
 Cuckoo! 
Cuckoo, cuckoo!--O word of fear, 
Unpleasing to a married ear!...Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William
...or gear,
 Nor easy meat and drink,
But bitter pinch of pain and fear
 That makes creation think.


When in this world's unpleasing youth
 Our god-like race began,
The longest arm, the sharpest tooth,
 Gave man control of man;


Till, bruised and bitten to the bone
 And taught by pain and fear,
He learned to deal the far-off stone,
 And poke the long, safe spear.


So tooth and nail were obsolete
 As means against a foe,
Till, bored by uniform defeat,
 Some genius built the bo...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard
...was an old person of Bromley,Whose ways were not cheerful or comely;He sate in the dust, eating spiders and crust,That unpleasing old person of Bromley. ...Read more of this...
by Lear, Edward



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