Famous Executions Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Gamajun the Prophetic Bird

...ies for land, 
Unable to lift the smashed wings' couple... 
The charge of Tartars' hordes it claims, 
And bloody set of executions, 
Earthquake, and hunger and the flames, 
The death of justice, crime’s intrusion... 
And caught with fear, cold and smooth, 
The fair face flames as one of lovers’, 
But sound with prophetic truth 
The lips that the bloody foam covers!......Read more of this...
by Blok, Aleksandr


Voltaire at Ferney

...re-haters who became unjust.

Yet, like a sentinel, he could not sleep. The night was full of wrong,
Earthquakes and executions: soon he would be dead,
And still all over Europe stood the horrible nurses
Itching to boil their children. Only his verses
Perhaps could stop them: He must go on working: Overhead,
The uncomplaining stars composed their lucid song. ...Read more of this...
by Auden, Wystan Hugh (W H)

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