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Famous Bad Temper Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ght as cork,
Every one of them permanently busy.

At their feet, the sea waves bow in single file.
Never trespassing in bad temper:
Stalling in midair, 
Short-reined, pawing like paradeground horses.
Overhead, the clouds sit tasseled and fancy

As Victorian cushions. This family
Of valentine faces might please a collector:
They ring true, like good china.

Elsewhere the landscape is more frank.
The light falls without letup, blindingly.

A woman is dragging her shadow in a ci...Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia



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For company? You know that when a woman 
Is blessed, or cursed, with a divine impatience 
(Another name of yours for a bad temper)
She must have one at hand on whom to wreak it 
(That’s what you mean, whatever the turn you give it), 
Sure of a kindred sympathy, and thereby 
Effect a mutual calm? You know that wisdom, 
Given in vain to make a food for those
Who are without it, will be seen at last, 
And even at last only by those who gave it, 
As one or more of the forgotten ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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