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Famous Untorn Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Keats, John
...hive I'll bring,
And apples, wan with sweetness, gather thee,--
Cresses that grow where no man may them see,
And sorrel untorn by the dew-claw'd stag:
Pipes will I fashion of the syrinx flag,
That thou mayst always know whither I roam,
When it shall please thee in our quiet home
To listen and think of love. Still let me speak;
Still let me dive into the joy I seek,--
For yet the past doth prison me. The rill,
Thou haply mayst delight in, will I fill
With fairy fishes ...Read more of this...



by Browning, Robert
...all our sheep know, as, one after one,
So docile they come to the pen-door till folding be done.
They are white and untorn by the bushes, for lo, they have fed
Where the long grasses stifle the water within the stream's bed;
And now one after one seeks its lodging, as star follows star
Into eve and the blue far above us,---so blue and so far!

VI.

---Then the tune, for which quails on the cornland will each leave his mate
To fly after the player; then, what makes the...Read more of this...

by Mandelstam, Osip
...She has not yet been born:
she is music and word,
and therefore the untorn,
fabric of what is stirred. 

Silent the ocean breathes.
Madly day’s glitter roams.
Spray of pale lilac foams,
in a bowl of grey-blue leaves.

May my lips rehearse
the primordial silence,
like a note of crystal clearness,
sounding, pure from birth!

Stay as foam Aphrodite – Art –
and return, Word, where music begins:
and, fused with li...Read more of this...

by Pessoa, Fernando
...
An all unjust Fate's truth from being believed?

Conjecture cannot fit to the seen world

A garment of its thought untorn or covering,

Or with its stuffed garb forge an otherworld

Without itself its dead deceit discovering;

So, all being possible, an idle thought may

Less idle thoughts, self-known no truer, dismay....Read more of this...

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