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Famous Tampered Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...d all the cards. 
They went to scale and -- cruel fate -- 
His jockey turned out under weight. 

Perhaps they's tampered with the scale! 
I cannot tell. I only know 
It weighed him out all right. I fail 
To paint that Sydney sportsman's woe. 
He said the stewards were a crew 
Of low-lived thieves in Dandaloo. 

He lifted up his voice, irate, 
And swore till all the air was blue; 
So then we rose to vindicate 
The dignity of Dandaloo. 
"Look here," ...Read more of this...



by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...waiting a chance: for this 
He chilled the popular praises of the King 
With silent smiles of slow disparagement; 
And tampered with the Lords of the White Horse, 
Heathen, the brood by Hengist left; and sought 
To make disruption in the Table Round 
Of Arthur, and to splinter it into feuds 
Serving his traitorous end; and all his aims 
Were sharpened by strong hate for Lancelot. 

For thus it chanced one morn when all the court, 
Green-suited, but with plumes that mocke...Read more of this...

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