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Famous Disqualified Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...You see, the thing was this way -- there was me, 
That rode Panopply, the Splendor mare, 
And Ikey Chambers on the Iron Dook, 
And Smith, the half-caste rider on Regret, 
And that long bloke from Wagga -- him that rode 
Veronikew, the Snowy River horse. 
Well, none of them had chances -- not a chance 
Among the lot, unless the rest fell dead 
Or wasn't...Read more of this...



by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...k's Riverine 
I saw my friend had been 
A bit too cunning. 
I read: "The racehorse Strife 
And jockey William Fife 
Disqualified for life -- 
Suspicious running." 

But though they spoilt his game 
I reckon all the same 
I fairly ought to claim 
My friend a white un. 
For though he wasn't straight, 
His deeds would indicate 
His heart at any rate 
Was "a all right un"....Read more of this...

by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...ugh hot fog the fulgid sun looks down 
Upon a stagnant earth where listless men 
Laboriously dawdle, curse, and sweat, 
Disqualified, unsatisfied, inert, -- 
It seems to me somehow that God himself 
Scans with a close reproach what I have done, 
Counts with an unphrased patience my arrears, 
And fathoms my unprofitable thoughts....Read more of this...

by Piercy, Marge
...ught in my superiority of the moment, 
whatever has happened to poor Cecile? 
She was out of fashion, out of the game, 
disqualified, disdained, dis- 
membered from the club of desire. 

Look at pictures in French fashion 
magazines of the 18th century: 
century of the ultimate lady 
fantasy wrought of silk and corseting. 
Paniers bring her hips out three feet 
each way, while the waist is pinched 
and the belly flattened under wood. 
The breasts are stuffed up an...Read more of this...

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