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Famous Untarnished Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Masters, Edgar Lee
...ed to the uses
Of lying and oppression.
My lovers and their children must not be dispossessed of me;
I would be the untarnished possession forever
Of those for whom I lived....Read more of this...



by Dickinson, Emily
...s -- looks the Oddity --
Distinctness -- easy -- seems --

The Shapes we buried, dwell about,
Familiar, in the Rooms --
Untarnished by the Sepulchre,
The Mouldering Playmate comes --

In just the Jacket that he wore --
Long buttoned in the Mold
Since we -- old mornings, Children -- played --
Divided -- by a world --

The Grave yields back her Robberies --
The Years, our pilfered Things --
Bright Knots of Apparitions
Salute us, with their wings --

As we -- it were -- that per...Read more of this...

by Carman, Bliss
...with the joy of their unrest.

Columbia and Fraser and Bear and Kootenay,
I love their fearless reaches where winds untarnished play--

The rush of glacial water across the pebbly bar
To polished pools of azure where the hidden boulders are.

Just there, with heaven smiling, any morning I would be,
Where all the silver rivers go racing to the sea.

O well remembered rivers that sing of long ago,
Ajourneying through summer or dreaming under snow.

Among their m...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...g seen all beauties of our time, 
Nor can see elsewhere, anything so fair. 
And if I fall her name will yet remain 
Untarnished as before; but if I live, 
So aid me Heaven when at mine uttermost, 
As I will make her truly my true wife.' 

Then, howsoever patient, Yniol's heart 
Danced in his bosom, seeing better days, 
And looking round he saw not Enid there, 
(Who hearing her own name had stolen away) 
But that old dame, to whom full tenderly 
And folding all her han...Read more of this...

by Thoreau, Henry David
...Within the circuit of this plodding life
There enter moments of an azure hue,
Untarnished fair as is the violet
Or anemone, when the spring strews them
By some meandering rivulet, which make
The best philosophy untrue that aims
But to console man for his grievances
I have remembered when the winter came,
High in my chamber in the frosty nights,
When in the still light of the cheerful moon,
On every twig and rail and jutting spout,
The...Read more of this...



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