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Famous Shrewish Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...shore! 

Falser than all fancy fathoms, falser than all songs have sung,
Puppet to a father's threat, and servile to a shrewish tongue! 

Is it well to wish thee happy?--having known me--to decline
On a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine! 

Yet it shall be; thou shalt lower to his level day by day,
What is fine within thee growing coarse to sympathize with clay. 

As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown,
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