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Famous Unshared Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Dickinson, Emily
...port -- suffices -- for a Brig -- like mine --

Ours be the tossing -- wild though the sea --
Rather than a Mooring -- unshared by thee.
Ours be the Cargo -- unladed -- here --
Rather than the "spicy isles --"
And thou -- not there --...Read more of this...



by Lorde, Audre
...nto rage
the hot tears of mourning
never shed for you before
your twisted measurements
the agony of denial
the power of unshared secrets....Read more of this...

by Milton, John
...hich for thee 
Chiefly I sought, without thee can despise. 
For bliss, as thou hast part, to me is bliss; 
Tedious, unshared with thee, and odious soon. 
Thou therefore also taste, that equal lot 
May join us, equal joy, as equal love; 
Lest, thou not tasting, different degree 
Disjoin us, and I then too late renounce 
Deity for thee, when Fate will not permit. 
Thus Eve with countenance blithe her story told; 
But in her cheek distemper flushing glowed. 
On t...Read more of this...

by Larkin, Philip
...forwith, and we 
Divide. And sure of what to do 

We disinfect new blocks of days 
For our majorities to rent 
With unshared friends and unwalked ways, 
But silence too is eloquent: 

A silence of minorities 
That, unopposed at last, return 
Each night with cancelled promises 
They want renewed. They never learn....Read more of this...

by Montgomery, Lucy Maud
...are far apart,
A dear and long-sought joy has come my constant guest to be,
And I love it not, so bitter it is, unfelt, unshared, by thee....Read more of this...



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