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Famous Torturer Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...g himself
With knives will seem to have conquered the world.


The world's God is treacherous and full of 
 unreason; a torturer, but also
The only foundation and the only fountain.
Who fights him eats his own flesh and perishes 
 of hunger; who hides in the grave
To escape him is dead; who enters the Indian
Recession to escape him is dead; who falls in 
 love with the God is washed clean
Of death desired and of death dreaded.


He has joy, but Joy is a trick in the air; and ...Read more of this...
by Jeffers, Robinson



...r knew, drunken with singing as with wine,
That they had brought no fabulous symbol there
But my heart's victim and its torturer....Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler
...ry, all at once 
O'er Heaven's high towers to force resistless way, 
Turning our tortures into horrid arms 
Against the Torturer; when, to meet the noise 
Of his almighty engine, he shall hear 
Infernal thunder, and, for lightning, see 
Black fire and horror shot with equal rage 
Among his Angels, and his throne itself 
Mixed with Tartarean sulphur and strange fire, 
His own invented torments. But perhaps 
The way seems difficult, and steep to scale 
With upright wing against...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...in vapours go! 

And last, to make thy drama all complete, 
That love and cruelty may mix and meet, 
I, thy remorseful torturer, will take 
All the Seven Deadly Sins, and from them make 
In darkest joy, Seven Knives, cruel-edged and keen, 
And like a juggler choosing, O my Queen, 
That spot profound whence love and mercy start, 
I'll plunge them all within thy panting heart!...Read more of this...
by Baudelaire, Charles

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