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Famous Abomination Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Whitman, Walt
...e, venerealee’s flesh,
Lungs rotting away piecemeal, stomach sour and cankerous, 
Joints rheumatic, bowels clogged with abomination, 
Blood circulating dark and poisonous streams, 
Words babble, hearing and touch callous, 
No brain, no heart left—no magnetism of sex;
Such, from one look in this looking-glass ere you go hence, 
Such a result so soon—and from such a beginning!...Read more of this...



by Smart, Christopher
..., and buildeth his edifice in armour. 

Let Jehu bless with the Hornet, who is the soldier of the Lord to extirpate abomination and to prepare the way of peace. 

Let Mattithiah bless with the Bat, who inhabiteth the desolations of pride and flieth amongst the tombs. 

Let Elias which is the innocency of the Lord rejoice with the Dove. 

Let Asaph rejoice with the Nightingale -- The musician of the Lord! and the watchman of the Lord! 

Let Shema rejoice with t...Read more of this...

by Smart, Christopher
...head. 

For a man should put no obstacle between his head and the blessing of Almighty God. 

For a hat was an abomination of the heathen. Lord have mercy upon the Quakers. 

For the ceiling of the house is an obstacle and therefore we pray on the house-top. 

For the head will be liable to less disorders on the recovery of its horn. 

For the horn on the forehead is a tower upon an arch. 

For it is a strong munition against the adversary, who is...Read more of this...

by Schwartz, Delmore
...rich or poor.
Though from the general guilt not free
We can keep honor by being poor.

The waste, the evil, the abomination
Is interrupted. the perfect stars persist
Small in the guilty night,
 and Mozart shows
The irreducible incorruptible good
Risen past birth and death, though he is dead.
Hope, like a face reflected on the windowpane,
Remote and dim, fosters a myth or dream,
And in that dream, I speak, I summon all
Who are our friends somehow and thus I say...Read more of this...

by Sidney, Sir Philip
...nses. 

So shall my sprite be still upright 
In thought and conversation, 
So shall I bide well purified 
From much abomination. 

So let words sprung from my weak tongue 
And my heart's meditation, 
My saving might, Lord, in Thy sight, 
Receive good acceptation!...Read more of this...



by McGonagall, William Topaz
...blic-houses away. 

And in doing so the good man, in my opinion, was right,
Because the evils of intemperance is an abomination in God's sight;
And all those that get drunk are enemies to Him,
Likewise enemies to Christ's kingdom, which is a great sin. 

The late Ex-Provost Rough was President of the Dundee Temperance Society,
An office which he filled with great ability;
Besides Vice-President of the Scottish Temperance League for many years,
And no doubt the friends...Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...s dig forever. 

The boundary rider's netting fence 
Excites his irritation; 
It is to his untutored sense 
His pet abomination. 

And when to pass it he desires, 
Upon his task he'll centre 
And dig a hole beneath the wires 
Through which the dingoes enter. 

And when to block the hole they strain 
With logs and stones and rubble, 
Bill Wombat digs it out again 
Without the slightest trouble. 

The boundary rider bows to fate, 
Admits he's made a blunder 
And...Read more of this...

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