Famous Damages Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Damages poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous damages poems. These examples illustrate what a famous damages poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...bed.
The Colonel went out sailing.
VI
The Judge at the Assize Court,
When he heard that story told,
Awarded him for damages
Three kegs of gold.
The Colonel said to Tom his man,
'Harness an ass and cart,
Carry the gold about the town,
Throw it in every patt.'
The Colonel went out sailing.
VII
And there at all street-corners
A man with a pistol stood,
And the rich man had paid them well
To shoot the Colonel dead;
But they threw down their pistols
And all men heard them s...Read more of this...
by
Yeats, William Butler
...oar—the plaudits for well-aim’d shots;
The ambulanza slowly passing, trailing its red drip;
Workmen searching after damages, making indispensable repairs;
The fall of grenades through the rent roof—the fan-shaped explosion;
The whizz of limbs, heads, stone, wood, iron, high in the air.
Again gurgles the mouth of my dying general—he furiously waves with his
hand;
He gasps through the clot, Mind not me—mind—the entrenchments.
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Now I tell what I knew in Tex...Read more of this...
by
Whitman, Walt
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