Famous Unsweetened Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Dead Rose

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 O Rose! who dares to name thee?
No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet;
But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubble-wheat,---
Kept seven years in a drawer---thy titles shame thee.

The breeze that used to blow thee
Between the hedgerow thorns, and take away
An odour up the lane to last all day,---
If breathing now,---unsweetened would forego thee.

The sun that used to smite...Read more of this...

The Example

by William Henry Davies
 Here's an example from 
A Butterfly; 
That on a rough, hard rock 
Happy can lie; 
Friendless and all alone 
On this unsweetened stone. 

Now let my bed be hard 
No care take I; 
I'll make my joy like this 
Small Butterfly; 
Whose happy heart has power 
To make a stone a flower....Read more of this...

Mater Dolorosa

by Algernon Charles Swinburne
 Who is this that sits by the way, by the wild wayside,
In a rent stained raiment, the robe of a cast-off bride,
In the dust, in the rainfall sitting, with soiled feet bare,
With the night for a garment upon her, with torn wet hair?
She is fairer of face than the daughters of men, and her eyes,
Worn through with her tears,...Read more of this...

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