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Famous Distain Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...be.
 Sae rantingly, &c.


Now farewell light, thou sunshine bright,
 And all beneath the sky!
May coward shame distain his name,
 The wretch that dares not die!
 Sae rantingly, &c....Read more of this...



by Turner Smith, Charlotte
...n eyes;
And Liberty, with calm, unruffled brow
Magnanimous, as conscious of her strength
In Reason's panoply, scorns to distain
Her righteous cause with carnage, and resigns
To Fraud and Anarchy the infuriate crowd.----
What is the promise of the infant year
To those, who (while the poor but peaceful hind
Pens, unmolested, the encreasing flock
Of his rich master in this sea-fenc'd isle)
Survey, in neighbouring countries, scenes that make
The sick heart shudder; and the Ma...Read more of this...

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