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Famous Tantrum Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...he state full of long S-shaped birds, blue and white,
and unseen hysterical birds who rush up the scale
every time in a tantrum.
Tanagers embarrassed by their flashiness,
and pelicans whose delight it is to clown;
who coast for fun on the strong tidal currents
in and out among the mangrove islands
and stand on the sand-bars drying their damp gold wings
on sun-lit evenings.
Enormous turtles, helpless and mild,
die and leave their barnacled shells on the beaches,
and their larg...Read more of this...
by Bishop, Elizabeth



...eedeeboy's pay;
We've laughed at the world as we found it, --
 Its women and cities and men --
From Sayyid Burgash in a tantrum
 To the smoke-reddened eyes of Loben,
 (Dear boys!),
 We've a little account with Loben.

The ends of the Farth were our portion,
 The ocean at large was our share.
There was never a skirmish to windward
 But the Leaderless Legion was there:
Yes, somehow and somewhere and always
 We were first when the trouble began,
From a lottery-row in Manila,
 To...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

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