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Famous Unsighted Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...he sails, and after night 
There is a dawning, thought there be no sun; 
Wherefore, with nothing but himself in sight, 
Unsighted, he sails on.

At last there is a lifting of the cloud 
Between the flood before him and the sky; 
And then--though he may curse the Power aloud 
That has no power to die--

He steers himself away from what is haunted 
By the old ghost of what has been before,-- 
Abandoning, as always, and undaunted, 
One fog-walled island more....Read more of this...



by Suckling, Sir John
...t, and my soul delighted:
For beauties that from worth arise
Are like the grace of deities,
Still present with us, tho’ unsighted.

Thus while I sit and sigh the day
With all his borrow’d lights away,
Till night’s black wings do overtake me,
Thinking on thee, thy beauties then,
As sudden lights do sleepy men,
So they by their bright rays awake me.

Thus absence dies, and dying proves
No absence can subsist with loves
That do partake of fair perfection:
Since in the da...Read more of this...

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