Famous Less Fortunate Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Less Fortunate poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous less fortunate poems. These examples illustrate what a famous less fortunate poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...like men!"
Oh, we rushed to meet at our captain's side
Death as a bride!
All our brave striplings bravely fell.
I, less fortunate, slowly came
Back from that din of shot and yell
Slowly and gaspingly, to know
A harder fate reserved for me
Than that brief, splendid agony.
Through many a bitter pang and throe
My spirit must to-morrow go
To seek my comrades; but I bear
The tidings that our desperate stand
By the Long Sault has saved our land,
And God has answered ...Read more of this...
by
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
...rcher draws his bowSmall skill it needs, e'en from afar, to seeWhich shaft, less fortunate, despised may be,Which to its destined sign will certain go:Lady, e'en thus of your bright eyes the blow,You surely felt pass straight and deep in me,Searching my life, whence—such is fate's decree—Eternal tears my stricken heart overf...Read more of this...
by
Petrarch, Francesco
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