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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Granville Calhoun

by Edgar Lee Masters
 I wanted to be County Judge
One more term, so as to round out a service
Of thirty years.
But my friends left me and joined my enemies,
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...Read more of this...

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