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Famous Famines Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ursue;
Not Heavens fierce Wrath, nor yet the Hate of Hell, 
Not any Plague that e're the World befel, 
Not Inundations, Famines, Fires blind rage, 
Did ever Mortals equally engage, 

As Man does Man, more skilful to annoy,
Both Mischievous and Witty to destroy. 
The bloody Wolf, the Wolf does not pursue; 
The Boar, though fierce, his Tusk will not embrue
In his own Kind, Bares, not on Bares do prey:
Then art thou, Man, more savage far than they. 

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by Killigrew, Anne



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