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Famous Rankle Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Dickinson, Emily
...Arrows enamored of his Heart --
Forgot to rankle there
And Venoms he mistook for Balms
disdained to rankle there --...Read more of this...



by Riley, James Whitcomb
...triot slain,
Till sorrow's voice shall catch the tone
And join the glad refrain.

'Ring out the wounds of wrong
And rankle in the breast;
Your music like a slumber-song
Will lull revenge to rest.

'Ring out from Occident
To Orient, and peal
From continent to continent
The mighty joy you feel.

'Ring! Independence Bell!
Ring on till worlds to be
Shall listen to the tale you tell
Of love and Liberty!'

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O Liberty--the dearest word
A bleeding country ever heard,--...Read more of this...

by Moore, Thomas
...ght hail thee with prouder, with happier brow, 
But oh! could I love thee more deeply tha now? 

No, thy chains as they rankle, thy blood as it runs, 
But make thee more painfully dear to thy sons -- 
Whose hearts, like the young of the desert-bird's nest, 
Drink love in each life-drop that flows from thy breast....Read more of this...

by Hopkins, Gerard Manley
...Galahad. Though this child's drift 

Seems by a divíne doom chánnelled, nor do I cry
Disaster there; but may he not rankle and roam
 In backwheels though bound home?—
That left to the Lord of the Eucharist, I here lie by; 

Recorded only, I have put my lips on pleas
Would brandle adamantine heaven with ride and jar, did
 Prayer go disregarded:
Forward-like, but however, and like favourable heaven heard these....Read more of this...

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