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Famous Unshackled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Moody, William Vaughn
...ere is her witness: this, her perfect son, 
This delicate and proud New England soul 
Who leads despisèd men, with just-unshackled feet, 
Up the large ways where death and glory meet, 
To show all peoples that our shame is done, 
That once more we are clean and spirit-whole. 


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Crouched in the sea fog on the moaning sand 
All night he lay, speaking some simple word 
From hour to hour to the slow minds that heard, 
Holding each poor life gently in his hand 
And breath...Read more of this...



by Petrarch, Francesco
...anza>My tameless will doth recklessly pursueHer, who, unshackled by love's heavy chain,Flies swiftly from its chase, whilst I in vainMy fetter'd journey pantingly renew;The safer track I offer to its view,But hopeless is my power to restrain,It rides regardless of the spur or rein;Read more of this...

by Robinson, Mary Darby
...Welcome then to me--
The WIDOW'S LOWLY HOME : The Soldier's HEIR;
The proud inheritor of Heav'n's best gifts--
The mind unshackled--and the guiltless Soul!...Read more of this...

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