Famous Contretemps Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Contretemps poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous contretemps poems. These examples illustrate what a famous contretemps poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Hardy, Thomas
...A forward rush by the lamp in the gloom,
And we clasped, and almost kissed;
But she was not the woman whom
I had promised to meet in the thawing brume
On that harbour-bridge; nor was I he of her tryst.
So loosening from me swift she said:
"O why, why feign to be
The one I had meant - to whom I have sped
To fly with, being so sorrily wed,"
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