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Famous Retaliation Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...And they elected a new man.
Then a spirit of revenge seized me,
And I infected my four sons with it,
And I brooded upon retaliation,
Until the great physician, Nature,
Smote me through with paralysis
To give my soul and body a rest.
Did my sons get power and money?
Did they serve the people or yoke them,
To till and harvest fields of self?
For how could they ever forget
My face at my bed-room window,
Sitting helpless amid my golden cages
Of singing canaries,
Looking at the ol...Read more of this...
by Masters, Edgar Lee



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