Famous Abdication Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Abdication poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous abdication poems. These examples illustrate what a famous abdication poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...well, because he wouldn't like it;
He'd frame a lower rating of men then
Than he has now; and after that would come
An abdication or an apoplexy.
He can't be king, not even king of Stratford, --
Though half the world, if not the whole of it,
May crown him with a crown that fits no king
Save Lord Apollo's homesick emissary:
Not there on Avon, or on any stream
Where Naiads and their white arms are no more,
Shall he find home again. It's all too bad.
But there's a ...Read more of this...
by
Dickinson, Emily
...sault Me --
How have I peace
Except by subjugating
Consciousness?
And since We're mutual Monarch
How this be
Except by Abdication --
Me -- of Me?...Read more of this...
by
Dickinson, Emily
...en,
Knew where they went --
They went to God's Right Hand --
That Hand is amputated now
And God cannot be found --
The abdication of Belief
Makes the Behavior small --
Better an ignis fatuus
Than no illume at all --...Read more of this...
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