Famous Avengement Poems by Famous Poets
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Wiglaf spoke, the son of Weohstan:
“Often shall many noble men, through the desire
of one, endured this avengement, as is ordained us.
Nor can we advise our beloved lord,
the herdsmen of the realm, of any counsel,
so that he would have not gone to meet
that gold-warden, let him lie where he long
was abiding in his house until the world-end,
holding his high destiny. The hoard is revealed,
gotten grimly. That was too harshly granted
that our nation’s ki...Read more of this...
by
Anonymous,
...o rags yrent,
Through unadvized rashnesse woxen wood;
For of his hands he had no governement,
Ne car'd for bloud in his avengement:
But when the furious fit was overpast,
His cruell facts he often would repent;
Yet wilfull man he never would forecast,
How many mischieves should ensue his heedlesse hast.
xxxv
Full many mischiefes follow cruell Wrath;
Abhorred bloudshed, and tumultuous strife,
Unmanly murder, and unthrifty scath,
Bitter despight, with rancours rusty knif...Read more of this...
by
Spenser, Edmund
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