Famous Unreconciled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Waring

by Robert Browning
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What's become of Waring
Since he gave us all the slip,
Chose land-travel or seafaring,
Boots and chest, or staff and scrip,
Rather than pace up and down
Any longer London-town?

Who'd have guessed it from his lip,
Or his brow's accustomed bearing,
On the night he thus took ship,
Or started landward?—little caring
For us, it seems, who supped together,
(Friends of his too, I remember)
And walked home through...Read more of this...

Discord

by Algernon Charles Swinburne
 Unreconciled by life's fleet years, that fled
With changeful clang of pinions wide and wild,
Though two great spirits had lived, and hence had sped
Unreconciled;

Though time and change, harsh time's imperious child,
That wed strange hands together, might not wed
High hearts by hope's misprision once beguiled;

Faith, by the light from either's memory shed,
Sees, radiant as their ends were undefiled,
One goal for each--not...Read more of this...

Partnership

by Edwin Arlington Robinson
 Yes, you have it; I can see. 
Beautiful?… Dear, look at me! 
Look and let my shame confess 
Triumph after weariness. 
Beautiful? Ah, yes.

Lift it where the beams are bright; 
Hold it where the western light, 
Shining in above my bed, 
Throws a glory on your head. 
Now it is all said.

All there was for me to say 
From...Read more of this...

Miracles

by Robert William Service
 Each time that I switch on the light
A Miracle it seems to me
That I should rediscover sight
And banish dark so utterly.
One moment I am bleakly blind,
The next--exultant life I find.

Below the sable of the sky
My eyelids double darkness make.
Sleep is divine, yet oh how I
Am glad with wonder to awake!
To welcome, glimmery and wan
The mighty Miracle of Dawn.

For I've...Read more of this...

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