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Famous Defilement Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Milton, John
... But, when lust,
By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk,
But most by lewd and lavish act of sin,
Lets ill defilement to the inward parts,
The soul grows clotted by contagion,
Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite loose
The divine property of her first being.
Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp
Oft seen in charnel-vaults and sepulchres,
Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave,
As loth to leave the body that it loved,
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by Hafez,
...mpling sneer,
Nor heed their slander, nor the infamous fame
Of their blind censure; nay nor do I fear

Death’s last defilement: though I pass in shame,
Bright worlds His immortality proclaim.


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