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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The Wandering Jew

by Edwin Arlington Robinson
 I saw by looking in his eyes 
That they remembered everything; 
And this was how I came to know 
That he was here, still wandering. 
For though the figure and the scene
Were never to be reconciled, 
I knew the man as I had known 
His image when I was a child. 

With evidence at every turn, 
I should have...Read more of this...

Life's Tragedy

by Paul Laurence Dunbar
 It may be misery not to sing at all, 
And to go silent through the brimming day; 
It may be misery never to be loved, 
But deeper griefs than these beset the way.

To sing the perfect song, 
And by a half-tone lost the key, 
There the potent sorrow, there the grief, 
The pale, sad staring of Life's Tragedy.

To have...Read more of this...

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