Famous Superseded Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Superseded poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous superseded poems. These examples illustrate what a famous superseded poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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The Blinded Bourbons

by Victor Hugo
 ("Qui leur eût dit l'austère destineé?") 
 
 {II. v., November, 1836.} 


 Who then, to them{1} had told the Future's story? 
 Or said that France, low bowed before their glory, 
 One day would mindful be 
 Of them and of their mournful fate no more, 
 Than of the wrecks its waters have swept o'er 
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The Superseded

by Thomas Hardy
 I 

As newer comers crowd the fore, 
 We drop behind. 
- We who have laboured long and sore 
 Times out of mind, 
And keen are yet, must not regret 
 To drop behind. 

II 

Yet there are of us some who grieve 
 To go behind; 
Staunch, strenuous souls who scarce believe 
 Their fires declined, 
And...Read more of this...

Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I)

by Ezra Pound
 "Vocat aestus in umbram" 
Nemesianus Es. IV. 

E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre 

For three years, out of key with his time,
He strove to resuscitate the dead art
Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime"
In the old sense. Wrong from the start --

No, hardly, but, seeing he had been born
In a half savage country, out of date;
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