Famous Disowns Poems by Famous Poets

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

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336. Song—My Eppie Macnab

by Robert Burns
 O SAW ye my dearie, my Eppie Macnab?
O saw ye my dearie, my Eppie Macnab?
 She’s down in the yard, she’s kissin the laird,
She winna come hame to her ain Jock Rab.


O come thy ways to me, my Eppie Macnab;
O come thy ways to me, my Eppie Macnab;
 Whate’er thou hast dune, be it late, be it sune,
Thou’s welcome...Read more of this...

484. Song—Saw you my dear my Philly

by Robert Burns
 O SAW ye my Dear, my Philly?
 O saw ye my Dear, my Philly,
She’s down i’ the grove, she’s wi’ a new Love,
 She winna come hame to her Willy.


 What says she my dear, my Philly?
 What says she my dear, my Philly?
She lets thee to wit she has thee forgot,
 And forever disowns thee, her Willy.


 O...Read more of this...

Hatred and vengeance my eternal portion

by William Cowper
 Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion,
Scarce can endure delay of execution,
Wait, with impatient readiness, to seize my
Soul in a moment.

Damned below Judas:more abhorred than he was,
Who for a few pence sold his holy Master.
Twice betrayed Jesus me, this last delinquent,
Deems the profanest.

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me:
Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;
Therefore hell keeps her ever hungry mouths...Read more of this...

A First Confession

by William Butler Yeats
 I admit the briar
Entangled in my hair
Did not injure me;
My blenching and trembling,
Nothing but dissembling,
Nothing but coquetry.

I long for truth, and yet
I cannot stay from that
My better self disowns,
For a man's attention
Brings such satisfaction
To the craving in my bones.

Brightness that I pull back
From the Zodiac,
Why those questioning eyes
That are fixed upon me?
What can they do but shun me
If empty...Read more of this...

John Brown

by Edwin Arlington Robinson
 Though for your sake I would not have you now 
So near to me tonight as now you are, 
God knows how much a stranger to my heart 
Was any cold word that I may have written; 
And you, poor woman that I made my wife,
You have had more of loneliness, I fear, 
Than I—though I have been the...Read more of this...

Lines Written During A Period Of Insanity

by William Cowper
 Hatred and vengence—my eternal portion
Scarce can endure delay of execution— 
Wait with impatient readiness to seize my
Soul in a moment.

Damned below Judas; more abhorred than he was,
Who for a few pence sold his holy Master!
Twice betrayed, Jesus me, the last delinquent,
Deems the profanest.

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me:
Hell might afford my miseries a shelter;
Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths...Read more of this...

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