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Famous Cankerous Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Whitman, Walt
...tep, 
A drunkard’s breath, unwholesome eater’s face, 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 Rossetti, Christina
...k:
But sat down listless in the chimney-nook
And would not eat.

Tender Lizzie could not bear
To watch her sister's cankerous care,
Yet not to share.
She night and morning
Caught the goblins' cry:
"Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy."
Beside the brook, along the glen
She heard the tramp of goblin men,
The voice and stir
Poor Laura could not hear;
Longed to buy fruit to comfort her,
But feared to pay too dear.

She thought of Jeanie in her grave,
W...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...Sunday church in prison walls—the keepers round, 
Plenteous, well-arm’d, watching, with vigilant eyes,) 
All that dark, cankerous blotch, a nation’s criminal mass,
Calmly a Lady walk’d, holding a little innocent child by either hand, 
Whom, seating on their stools beside her on the platform, 
She, first preluding with the instrument, a low and musical prelude, 
In voice surpassing all, sang forth a quaint old hymn. 
3THE HYMN.A Soul, confined by bars and bands,
Cries,...Read more of this...

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