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Famous Discrepancies Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...and done, 
Tell but a wilder game that was begun, 
When Fate, the mistress of iniquities, 
The mad Queen-spinner of all discrepancies,
Beguiled the dyers of the dawn that day, 
And even in such a curst and sodden way 
Made my three colors one. 
—So be it, and the way be as of old: 
So be the weary truth again retold
Of great kings overthrown 
Because they would be kings, and lastly kings alone. 
Fling to each dog his bone. 

Flags that are vanished, flags that are soiled and ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington



...e Word, 
And finding only that, will flourish aloft,
Like heads of captured Pharisees on pikes, 
Our contradictions and discrepancies; 
And there are many more will hang themselves 
Upon the letter, seeing not in the Word 
The friend of all who fail, and in their faith
A sword of excellence to cut them down. 

As long as there are glasses that are dark— 
And there are many—we see darkly through them; 
All which have I conceded and set down 
In words that have no shadow. What ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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