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Famous Unrealized Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Seeger, Alan
...green brakes of hedge and apple-bough 
Round haunts delightful once, desert and silent now; 


Or yet if prescience of unrealized love 
Startle the breast with each melodious air, 
And gifts that gentle hands are donors of 
Still wait intact somewhere, 
Furled up all golden in a perfumed place 
Within the folded petals of forthcoming days. 


Only forever, in the old unrest 
Of winds and waters and the varying year, 
A litany from islands of the blessed 
Answers, Not her...Read more of this...



by García Lorca, Federico
...countryside bites its own tail in order to gather a bunch of roots
and a ball of yarn looks anxiously in the grass for unrealized longitude.
The Moon! The police. The foghorns of the ocean liners!
Facades of urine, of smoke, anemones, rubber gloves.
Everything is shattered in the night
that spread its legs on the terraces.
Everything is shatter in the tepid faucets
of a terrible silent fountain.
Oh, crowds! Loose women! Soldiers!
We will have to journey t...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...t
 which preceded it, 
Journeyers as with companions, namely, their own diverse phases, 
Forth-steppers from the latent unrealized baby-days, 
Journeyers gayly with their own youth—Journeyers with their bearded and well-grain’d
 manhood, 
Journeyers with their womanhood, ample, unsurpass’d, content,
Journeyers with their own sublime old age of manhood or womanhood, 
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, 
Old age, flowing free with the delici...Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily
...The nearest Dream recedes -- unrealized --
The Heaven we chase,
Like the June Bee -- before the School Boy,
Invites the Race --
Stoops -- to an easy Clover --
Dips -- evades -- teases -- deploys --
Then -- to the Royal Clouds
Lifts his light Pinnace --
Heedless of the Boy --
Staring -- bewildered -- at the mocking sky --
Homesick for steadfast Honey --
Ah, the Bee flies not
That brews t...Read more of this...

by Hardy, Thomas
...ed long 
By vacant rote and prepossession strong - 
The coils that thou hast wrought unwittingly; 

Wherein have place, unrealized by thee, 
Fair growths, foul cankers, right enmeshed with wrong, 
Strange orchestras of victim-shriek and song, 
And curious blends of ache and ecstasy? - 

Should that morn come, and show thy opened eyes 
All that Life's palpitating tissues feel, 
How wilt thou bear thyself in thy surprise? - 

Wilt thou destroy, in one wild shock of shame, 
Thy ...Read more of this...



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