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Famous Rankled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Schiller, Friedrich von
...ye,
And made the youthful warrior fly,
And tears of anguish shed.

Now, rascals, quake!--This grieved him sore,
And rankled in his brain;
And by his father's beard he swore,
With many a craven townsman's gore
To wash out this foul stain.

Ere long the feud raged fierce and loud,--
Then hastened steed and man
To Doeffingen in thronging crowd,
While joy inspired the youngster proud,--
And soon the strife began.

Our army's signal-word that day
Was the disastrous fig...Read more of this...



by Robinson, Mary Darby
...dient to HER stern command, 
With meek submission bow'd thee low! 

And when thy faded cheek proclaim'd 
The thorn that rankled in thy breast, 
Thy steady soul that pride maintain'd, 
Which marks the godlike mind distress'd! 

Nor was thy mental strength subdu'd, 
When HOPE's last ling'ring shadows fled, 
Unchang'd, thy dauntless spirit view'd 
The dreary confines of the dead! 

And when thy penetrating mind, 
Life's thorny maze presum'd to scan, 
In ev'ry path condemn'd to f...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...rising twice or thrice 
Full sharply smote his knees, and smiled, and went: 
But, ever after, the small violence done 
Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart, 
As the sharp wind that ruffles all day long 
A little bitter pool about a stone 
On the bare coast. 

But when Sir Lancelot told 
This matter to the Queen, at first she laughed 
Lightly, to think of Modred's dusty fall, 
Then shuddered, as the village wife who cries 
`I shudder, some one steps across my grave;' ...Read more of this...

by Edgar, Marriott
...am a coat with no stripes on,
In spite of the service he'd seen,
Which considering he'd been a King's sergeant,
Kind of rankled... you know what I mean.

He said "I come back to the Army,
Expecting my country's thanks,
And the first thing I find when I get here,
Is that I've been reduced to the ranks.

He found all the lads sympathetic,
They agreed that 'twere a disgrace,
Except one old chap in the corner,
With a nutcracker kind of a face.

Said the ol...Read more of this...

by Browning, Robert
...she and her son agreed, I take it,
That no one should touch on the story to wake it,
For the wound in the Duke's pride rankled fiery,
So, they made no search and small inquiry---
And when fresh Gipsies have paid us a visit, I've
Noticed the couple were never inquisitive,
But told them they're folks the Duke don't want here,
And bade them make haste and cross the frontier.
Brief, the Duchess was gone and the Duke was glad of it,
And the old one was in the young one's stea...Read more of this...



by Petrarch, Francesco
...l smileTo view her son upon the funeral pile;But brooding vengeance rankled deep within,So Cyrus fell within the fatal gin:Misconduct, which from age to age convey'd,O'er her long glories cast a funeral shade.I saw the Amazon whom Ilion mourn'd,And her for whom the flames of discord burn'd,Read more of this...

by Jackson, Helen Hunt
...at it was not
Because you meant to hurt me, sweet-
I knew it was that you forgot!'

But all the same, deep in her heart
Rankled this thought, and rankles yet,-
'When love is at its best, one loves
So much that he cannot forget.'...Read more of this...

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