Famous High Treason Poems by Famous Poets

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Elegy

...your ankles's remanants bronzes
of sunburnt breastplates dying laughter bruises 
rumors of fresh reserves memories of high treason 
laundered banners with imprints of the many
who since have risen.

All's overgrown with people. A ruin's a rather stubborn
architectural style. And the hearts's distinction
from a pitch-black cavern
isn't that great; not great enough to fear
that we may collide again like blind eggs somewhere.

At sunrise when nobody stares at one's f...Read more of this...
by Brodsky, Joseph


The Retreat From Moscow

...ot, could not be 
 That he had not his work to do—a destiny? 
 To hurl him headlong from his high estate, 
 Would be high treason in his bondman, Fate. 
 But all the while he felt himself alone, 
 Stunned with disasters few have ever known. 
 Sudden, a fear came o'er his troubled soul, 
 What more was written on the Future's scroll? 
 Was this an expiation? It must be, yea! 
 He turned to God for one enlightening ray. 
 "Is this the vengeance, Lord of Hosts?" he sig...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

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