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Famous Malingering Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Under the pallid moonlight's fingering, 
I see your blanched face at my breast, and hide 
My eyes from diligent work, malingering. 

Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw 
The blind to hide the garden, where the moon 
Enjoys the open blossoms as they straw 
Their beauty for his taking, boon for boon. 

And I do lift my aching arms to you, 
And I do lift my anguished, avid breast, 
And I do weep for very pain of you, 
And fling myself at the doors of sleep, for rest. 

And I d...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.



...s no trusting (trusting to luck)
Dates when the world's due to be burned;

That the future's no calamitous change
But a malingering of now,
Histories, towns, faces that no
Malice or accident much derange.

And though bomb be matched against bomb,
Though all mankind wince out and nothing endure --
Earth gone in an instant flare --
Did a lesser death come 

Onto the white hospital bed
Where one, numb beyond her last of sense,
Closed her eyes on the world's evidence
And into pil...Read more of this...
by Hughes, Ted
...crazed him; nor the Hun."

We sent him down at last, out of the way.
Unwounded; -- stout lad, too, before that strafe.
Malingering? Stretcher-bearers winked, "Not half!"

Next day I heard the Doc.'s well-whiskied laugh:
"That scum you sent last night soon died. Hooray!"...Read more of this...
by Owen, Wilfred

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