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Famous Misbegotten Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...was the better brute; 
But bulking in the way then of my fist 
And all there was alive in me to drive it, 
Three of him misbegotten into one
Would have gone down like him—and being larger, 
Might have bled more, if that were necessary. 
He came up soon; and if I live for ever, 
The vengeance in his eyes, and a weird gleam 
Of desolation—it I make you see it—
Will be before me as it is tonight. 
I shall not ever know how long it was 
I waited his attack that never came...Read more of this...



by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...mong the futile shards 
And architraves of eminent collapse. 
They are a many-favored family, 
All told, with not a misbegotten dwarf 
Among the rest that I can love so little
As one occult abortion in especial 
Who perches on a picture (when it’s done) 
And says, “What of it, Rembrandt, if you do?” 
This incubus would seem to be a sort 
Of chorus, indicating, for our good,
The silence of the few friends that are left: 
“What of it, Rembrandt, even if you know?” 
It says ...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...l, I hope it's to his taste;
But excuse me, Mister Casey, if I seem to be oncivil,
For I'll nivver wed a man wid such a misbegotten baste."
So she slammed the door and left him in a state of consternation,
And he couldn't understand it, till he saw that grinning goat:
Then with eloquence he cussed it, and his final fulmination
Was a poem of profanity impossible to quote.

So blasting goats and petticoats and feeling downright sinful,
Despairfully he wandered in to Shi...Read more of this...

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