Famous Retching Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Legless Man

by Robert William Service
 (The Dark Side)

My mind goes back to Fumin Wood, and how we stuck it out,
Eight days of hunger, thirst and cold, mowed down by steel and flame;
Waist-deep in mud and mad with woe, with dead men all about,
We fought like fiends and waited for relief that never came.
Eight days and nights they rolled on us in battle-frenzied mass!
"Debout les...Read more of this...

Two Sonnets In Memory

by Edna St. Vincent Millay
 (Nicola Sacco -- Bartolomeo Vanzetti)
Executed August 23, 1927


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As men have loved their lovers in times past
And sung their wit, their virtue and their grace,
So have we loved sweet Justice to the last,
That now lies here in an unseemly place.
The child will quit the cradle and grow wise
And stare on beauty till his senses drown;
Yet shall be seen no more...Read more of this...

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