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Famous Unwatched Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Horace,
...Is heard by Auser's rill;
     No hunter tracks the stag's green path
          Up the Ciminian hill;
     Unwatched along Clitumnus
          Grazes the milk-white steer;
     Unharmed the water fowl may dip
          In the Volsminian mere.

               VIII

     The harvests of Arretium,
          This year, old men shall reap;
     This year, young boys in Umbro
          Shall plunge the struggling sheep;
     And in the vats of Luna,
       ...Read more of this...



by Tebb, Barry
...The girl tying

A ribbon

In glowing sepia

A tiny kingdom

Swept away before

I was born.





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Unnoticed and unwatched

We clambered over the remains

Of the Bridgefields gathering

Jamjarfuls of dandelions

Placing them with reverence

By broken grates

In Pompeii’s streets.13



One hot summer night

Terry boasted with

Ten year old knowingness

That he’d **** Mary

Who was six but strangely

Experienced in sex

Both slipped away

Behind the hillocks

Of the ...Read more of this...

by Butler, Ellis Parker
...e, in haste,
Left his post that he might taste
of the honey nature placed
 On the lips of that fair stranger.

Thus unwatched, from Cupid’s side
Anna stole the boy god’s pride,
All his love darts, and then hied
 Far away from capture’s chances
And today she wields the prize;
For Love’s quiver still supplies
Darts that speed from Anna’s eyes
 In her love compelling glances!...Read more of this...

by Alighieri, Dante
...revailest for me, wilt thou speak, that who 
 Within these tombs are held mine eyes may see? 
 For lifted are they, and unwatched." 

 And he, - 
 "The lids stand open till the time arrive 
 When to the valley of Jehoshaphat 
 They each must wend, and earthly flesh resume, 
 And back returning, as the swarming hive, 
 From condemnation, each the doleful tomb 
 Re-enter wailing, and the lids thereat 
 Be bolted. Here in fitting torment lie 
 The Epicurean horde, who da...Read more of this...

by Montgomery, Lucy Maud
...ers to walk when sunsets yield
Their painted splendors to the skies,
And dream on some far battlefield
Perchance alone, unwatched, he dies;
'Tis hers to kneel in patient prayer
When midnight stars keep sentinel,
Lest the chill death-dews damp the hair
Upon the brow she loves so well. 

So stands she, white and sad and sweet,
Upon the latticed balcony,
From golden hair to slender feet
No lady is so fair as she;
He loves her true, he holds her dear,
But he must ride on dang...Read more of this...



by Wordsworth, William
...>in being! better far  In Want's most lonely cave till death to pine,  Unseen, unheard, unwatched by any star;  Or in the streets and walks where proud men are,  Better our dying bodies to obtrude,  Than dog-like, wading at the heels of war,  Protract a curst existence, with the brood  That lap (their very nourishment!) their brother's blood.   The pains ...Read more of this...

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