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Famous Pugnacious Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Service, Robert William
...to claw her face;
But if I did she'd make a scene
 And run me round the place:
For widows are in way of spleen
 A most pugnacious race.

And yet I must do something quick
 To keep the hag in line,
Since her red rooster chose to pick
 Five lettuce heads of mine:
And so I fed it arsenic
 Which it did not decline.

It disappeared, but on my mat
 Before a week had sped
I found Mi-mi, my tabby cat
 And it was stoney dead;
I diagnosed with weeping that
 On strychnine it ha...Read more of this...



by Hugo, Victor
...ly, sought two kings, without their courtier herd, 
 The moistened brink, 
 Beneath the palm—they always tempt pugnacious hands— 
 Both travel-sore; 
 But quickly, on the recognition, out flew brands 
 Straight to each core; 
 As dying breaths commingle, o'er them rose the call 
 Of Eagle shrill: 
 "Yon crownèd couple, who supposed the world too small, 
 Now one grave fill! 
 Chiefs blinded by your rage! each bleachèd sapless bone 
 Becomes a pipe 
 Through...Read more of this...

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