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Famous Evilly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Service, Robert William
...h, he'll sneer and turn away.
But when the sky with rapture rings and joy is like a flame,
Then Old Man Death grins evilly, and swings around to slay.

Jack Duval was my chosen pal in the ranks of the Reckless Men.
Thick as thieves they used to say, and it may be that we were:
Where the price of life is a naked knife and dammed are nine in ten,
It doesn't do to be curious in the Legion Etrangère.

So when it came to a hidden shame our mugs were zippered tight;...Read more of this...



by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...with Old King Cole. 
“Though mine,” the father mused aloud, 
“Are not the sons I would have chosen, 
Shall I, less evilly endowed,
By their infirmity be frozen? 

“They’ll have a bad end, I’ll agree, 
But I was never born to groan; 
For I can see what I can see, 
And I’m accordingly alone.
With open heart and open door, 
I love my friends, I like my neighbors; 
But if I try to tell you more, 
Your doubts will overmatch my labors. 

“This pipe would never make me ...Read more of this...

by Sexton, Anne
..., like a crayoned cat, its green hair, 

its roads sunken in like a gray washboard; 
where, in truth, the ground cracks evilly, 
a dark socket from which the coal has poured,


Somebody who should have been born
is gone. 

the grass as bristly and stout as chives,
and me wondering when the ground would break, 
and me wondering how anything fragile survives; 

up in Pennsylvania, I met a little man,
not Rumpelstiltskin, at all, at all... 
he took the fullness t...Read more of this...

by Abercrombie, Lascelles
...that line 
Of gilded water there! the sun has drawn 
In a long narrow band of shining oil 
His light over the sea; how evilly move 
Ripples along that golden skin! -- the gleam 
Works like a muscular thing! like the half-gorged 
Sleepy swallowing of a serpent's neck. 
The sea lives, surely! My eyes swear to it; 
And, like a murderous smile that glimpses through 
A villain's courtesy, that twitching dazzle 
Parts the kind mood of weather to bewray 
The feasted waters of t...Read more of this...

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