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Famous Filched Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...rs slew,
 Died -- and took the finest grave.

When they scratched the reindeer-bone,
Some one made the sketch his own,
 Filched it from the artist -- then,
Even in those early days,
Won a simple Viceroy's praise
 Through the toil of other men.
Ere they hewed the Sphinx's visage
Favouritism governed kissage,
 Even as it does in this age.

Who shall doubt "the secret hid
Under Cheops' pyramid"
Was that the contractor did
 Cheops out of several millions?
Or that Joseph's sudden ...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard



...the ground, 
A hut, a peasant's dingy shed, to mine. 
And all his excellent woods, metals, and stones, 
The things he's filched out of the earth's old pockets 
And hoisted up into walls and domes; the gold, 
Ebony, agate stairs, wainscots of jade, 
The windows of jargoon, and heavenly lofts 
Of marble, all the stuff he takes to be wealth, 
Reckons like savage mud and wattle against 
The matter of my building.' -- And the king, 
Gloating upon the white sheen of that palace, 
A...Read more of this...
by Abercrombie, Lascelles
...rried my heart away?
Who has my heart? I would like to know
Which was the guilty one of the two,
But I only know it was filched one day
By fair, sweet Phyllis, or sweet, fair May....Read more of this...
by Butler, Ellis Parker

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry