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Famous Gummed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...w many are there dead? Six hundred: count! 
 Their limbs lie strewn about the fatal mount, 
 Blackened and torn, eyes gummed with blood, hearts rolled 
 Out from their ribs, to give the wolves of the wold 
 A red feast; nothing of them left but these 
 Pierced relics, underneath the olive trees, 
 Show where the gin was sprung—the scoundrel-trap 
 Which brought those hero-lads their foul mishap. 
 See how they fell in swathes—like barley-ears! 
 Their crime? to claim...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor



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