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Famous Unfaithfulness Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Kipling, Rudyard
...true.

Yet we, the bond slaves of our day,
 Whom dirt and danger press--
Co-heirs of insolence, delay,
 And leagued unfaithfulness--
Such is our need must seek indeed
 And, having found, engage
The men who merely do the work
 For which they draw the wage.

From forge and farm and mine and bench,
 Deck, altar, outpost lone--
Mill, school, battalion, counter, trench,
 Rail, senate, sheepfold, throne--
Creation's cry goes up on high
 From age to cheated age:
"Send us the...Read more of this...



by Whitman, Walt
...ll’d by one or two failures, or any number of failures, 
Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by any unfaithfulness, 
Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.

Revolt! and still revolt! revolt! 
What we believe in waits latent forever through all the continents, and all the islands
 and
 archipelagos of the sea; 
What we believe in invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is
 positive
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