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Famous Scotched Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
...e won what is best?

"Where among us are such things
As turn men's hearts into hell?
Have we not queens without stings,
Scotched princes, and fangless kings?
Yea," she said, "we are well.

"We have filed the teeth of the snake
Monarchy, how should it bite?
Should the slippery slow thing wake,
It will not sting for my sake;
Yea," she said, "I do right."

So spake she, drunken with dreams,
Mad; but again in her ears
A voice as of storm-swelled streams
Spake; "No brave s...Read more of this...



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