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Famous Acquitting Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Browning, Robert
...ho am I, the worm, to argue with my Pope? 
"Low things confound the high things!" and so forth. 
That's better than acquitting God with grace 
As some folk do. He's tried--no case is proved, 
Philosophy is lenient--he may go! 

You'll say, the old system's not so obsolete 
But men believe still: ay, but who and where? 


King Bomba's lazzaroni foster yet 
The sacred flame, so Antonelli writes; 
But even of these, what ragamuffin-saint 
Believes God watches him continu...Read more of this...



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