Famous Crippling Poems by Famous Poets

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

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John Brown

...ome other work 
Than man’s alone. I was not after glory, 
But there was glory with me, like a friend, 
Throughout those crippling years when friends were few,
And fearful to be known by their own names 
When mine was vilified for their approval. 
Yet friends they are, and they did what was given 
Their will to do; they could have done no more. 
I was the one man mad enough, it seems,
To do my work; and now my work is over. 
And you, my dear, are not to mourn for me, 
Or for y...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington


On Home Beaches

...at its back.
You peer, at this age, but it's still there, ridicule,
the pistol that kills women, that gets them killed, crippling men
on the towel-spattered sand. Equality is dressed, neatly,
with mouth still shut. Bared body is not equal ever.
Some are smiled to each other. Many surf, swim, play ball:
like that red boy, holding his wet T shirt off his breasts....Read more of this...
by Murray, Les

The Whipping

...her goodness and his wrongs.

Wildly he crashes through elephant ears,
 pleads in dusty zinnias,
while she in spite of crippling fat
 pursues and corners him.

She strikes and strikes the shrilly circling
 boy till the stick breaks
in her hand. His tears are rainy weather
 to woundlike memories:

My head gripped in bony vise
 of knees, the writhing struggle
to wrench free, the blows, the fear
 worse than blows that hateful

Words could bring, the face that I
 no longer knew ...Read more of this...
by Hayden, Robert

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