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Famous Unspun Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...; 
And should a death-bed snare that she had made 
So long ago be stretched inexorably
Through all her life, only to be unspun 
With her last breathing? And were bats and threads, 
Accursedly devised with watered gules, 
To be Love’s heraldry? What were it worth 
To live and to find out that life were life
But for an unrequited incubus 
Of outlawed shame that would not be thrown down 
Till she had thrown down fear and overcome 
The woman that was yet so much of her 
That she ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



...and died. 
Thus to be humbled: 'tis to be undone;
A forest fell'd; a city razed to ground;
A cloak unsewn, unwoven and unspun
Till not a thread remains that can be wound.
And yet, O lover, thee, the ruin'd one,
Love who hath humbled thus hath also crown'd. 

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I care not if I live, tho' life and breath
Have never been to me so dear and sweet.
I care not if I die, for I could meet--
Being so happy--happily my death.
I care not if I love; to-day she saith
She loveth, and love...Read more of this...
by Bridges, Robert Seymour

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