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Famous Undeservedly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...is own children:
Herebeald and Hæthcyn and my own Hygelac. (ll. 2425-34)

“For the eldest, a deathbed was laid out,
undeservedly, through the deeds of his kin,
after Hæthcyn struck him down with an arrow,
his own brother, from the horned bow,
missing his mark and shooting down his kinsman,
brother to brother, with a bloody shaft.
That was an irresolvable conflict—
a wrongful crime wearing out the heart—
a nobleman must lose his life unavenged. (ll. 2435-43)

“It ...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,



...thy powers to reign 
Over free reason, God, in judgement just, 
Subjects him from without to violent lords; 
Who oft as undeservedly enthrall 
His outward freedom: Tyranny must be; 
Though to the tyrant thereby no excuse. 
Yet sometimes nations will decline so low 
From virtue, which is reason, that no wrong, 
But justice, and some fatal curse annexed, 
Deprives them of their outward liberty; 
Their inward lost: Witness the irreverent son 
Of him who built the ark; who, for t...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

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