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Famous Rebuking Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...dwarded beside 
Her unbent will's majestic pride. 
She sat among us, at the test, 
A not unfeared, half-welcome guest, 
Rebuking with her cultured phrase 
Our homeliness of words and ways. 
A certain pard-like, treacherous grace 
Swayed the lithe limbs and dropped the lash, 
Lent the white teeth their dazzling flash; 
And under low brows, black with night, 
Rayed out at times a dangerous light; 
The sharp heat-lightnings of her face 
Presaging ill to him whom Fate 
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by Whittier, John Greenleaf



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