Famous Imprecation Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Lara

...less as he lay, 
There lived upon his lip the wish to slay; 
Some half-form'd threat in utterance there had died, 
Some imprecation of despairing pride; 
His eye was almost seal'd, but not forsook 
Even in its trance the gladiator's look, 
That oft awake his aspect could disclose, 
And now was fix'd in horrible repose. 
They raise him — bear him: hush! he breathes, he speaks! 
The swarthy blush recolours in his cheeks, 
His lip resumes its red, his eye, though dim, 
Rolls wid...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)


On A Distant View Of Harrow

...oung pride, such applauses resounded,
I fancied that Mossop himself was outshone.

Or, as Lear, I pour'd forth the deep imprecation,
By my daughters, of kingdom and reason depriv'd;
Till, fir'd by loud plaudits and self-adulation,
I regarded myself as a Garrick reviv'd.

Ye dreams of my boyhood, how much I regret you!
Unfaded your memory dwells in my breast;
Though sad and deserted, I ne'er can forget you:
Your pleasures may still be in fancy possest.

To Ida full oft may rem...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

Sonnet XLVI

...ame=Page_61>[Pg 61] SONNET XLVI. L' arbor gentil che forte amai molt' anni. IMPRECATION AGAINST THE LAUREL.  The graceful tree I loved so long and well,Ere its fair boughs in scorn my flame declined,Beneath its shade encouraged my poor mindTo bud and bloom, and 'mid its sorrow swell....Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Lady of the Lake

...misery and ill,
     Mingled with childhood's babbling trill
          Of curses stammered slow;
     Answering with imprecation dread,
     'Sunk be his home in embers red!
     And cursed be the meanest shed
     That o'er shall hide the houseless head
          We doom to want and woe!'
     A sharp and shrieking echo gave,
     Coir-Uriskin, thy goblin cave!
     And the gray pass where birches wave
          On Beala-nam-bo.
     XI.

     Then deeper pause...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Valley of the Shadow

...mber
Of something that had been alive and once had been themselves. 
There were some who stirred the ruins with a solid imprecation, 
While as many fled repentance for the promise of despair: 
There were drinkers of wrong waters in the Valley of the Shadow, 
And all the sparkling ways were dust that once had led them there.

There were some who knew the steps of Age incredibly beside them, 
And his fingers upon shoulders that had never felt the wheel; 
And their last of empty...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington


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