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Famous Untempered Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...he grief, 
The pale, sad staring of Life's Tragedy.

To have come near to the perfect love, 
Not the hot passion of untempered youth, 
But that which lies aside its vanity, 
And gives, for thy trusting worship, truth.

This, this indeed is to be accursed, 
For if we mortals love, or if we sing, 
We count our joys not by what we have, 
But by what kept us from that perfect thing....Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul



...of his wits: 
Rather it was that I should yield, 
Alone, the fealty that presents
The tribute of a tempered ear 
To an untempered eloquence. 

Before I pondered long enough 
On whence he came and who he was, 
I trembled at his ringing wealth
Of manifold anathemas; 
I wondered, while he seared the world, 
What new defection ailed the race, 
And if it mattered how remote 
Our fathers were from such a place.

Before there was an hour for me 
To contemplate with less concern 
Th...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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