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Famous Detesting Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...ze, an’ growl,
Their worthless nievefu’ of a soul
May in some future carcase howl,
 The forest’s fright;
Or in some day-detesting owl
 May shun the light.


Then may Lapraik and Burns arise,
To reach their native, kindred skies,
And sing their pleasures, hopes an’ joys,
 In some mild sphere;
Still closer knit in friendship’s ties,
 Each passing year!...Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...en echo thro’ Saint Stephen’s wa’s
 Auld Scotland’s wrangs.


Dempster, 3 a true blue Scot I’se warran’;
Thee, aith-detesting, chaste Kilkerran; 4
An’ that glib-gabbit Highland baron,
 The Laird o’ Graham; 5
An’ ane, a chap that’s damn’d aulfarran’,
 Dundas his name: 6


Erskine, a spunkie Norland billie; 7
True Campbells, Frederick and Ilay; 8
An’ Livistone, the bauld Sir Willie; 9
 An’ mony ithers,
Whom auld Demosthenes or Tully
 Might own for brithers.


See sodger...Read more of this...

by Browning, Robert
...oor opposite. 


You will not wait for that experience though, 
I fancy, howsoever you decide, 
To discontinue--not detesting, not 
Defaming, but at least--despising me! 

Over his wine so smiled and talked his hour 
Sylvester Blougram, styled in partibus 
Episcopus, nec non --(the deuce knows what 
It's changed to by our novel hierarchy) 
With Gigadibs the literary man, 
Who played with spoons, explored his plate's design, 
And ranged the olive-stones about its edge, 
Wh...Read more of this...

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