Famous Irritant Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Owl Against Robin

by Sidney Lanier
 Frowning, the owl in the oak complained him
Sore, that the song of the robin restrained him
Wrongly of slumber, rudely of rest.
"From the north, from the east, from the south and the west,
Woodland, wheat-field, corn-field, clover,
Over and over and over and over,
Five o'clock, ten o'clock, twelve, or seven,
Nothing but robin-songs heard under heaven:
How can we sleep?

`Peep!' you whistle, and `cheep!...Read more of this...

Pearls

by Bernadette Geyer
 And so I look back
still thinking of her
with painful heart,
this clench of inner flesh.

 —Kakinomoto Hitomaro
 from Manyoshu



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Praise the irritant, that genesis,
implanted within the soft
and malleable animal that bore you.

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Your brethren strung around my neck,
dangling from my earlobes.
The imperfections the jeweler slights, I praise.

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Artifact of a biological process,
why do we expect
symmetry from a grain of sand?

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Praise the oblong beauty
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