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Famous Wagered Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...nctuary there?

Nothing dies as slowly as a scene.
The dusty jukebox cracking through
the cackle of a beered-up crone--
wagered wine--sudden need to dance--
these remain in the black debris.
Although I know in time the lake will send
wind black enough to blow it all away....Read more of this...
by Hugo, Richard



...ike the house, a place where we could bring

our road-worn, weary selves.
Now, we've a pause
in a year we wouldn't have wagered on.
Dusk climbs the tiled roof opposite; the blue's

still sun-soaked; it's a week now since you've gone
to be a daughter in the capital.
(I came north with you as far as Beaune.)

I cook things you don't like. Sometimes I fall
asleep, book open, one A.M., sometimes
I long for you all night in Provencal

or langue d'oc, or wish I could, when I'm 
too...Read more of this...
by Hacker, Marilyn
...ouls. And here you say,
“Be careful, or you may commit your soul 
Soon to the very devil of your denial.” 
I might have wagered on you to say that, 
Knowing that I believe in you too surely 
To spoil you with a kick or paint you over.

No, my good friend, Mynheer Rembrandt van Ryn— 
Sometime a personage in Amsterdam, 
But now not much—I shall not give myself 
To be the sport of any dragon-spawn 
Of Holland, or elsewhere. Holland was hell
Not long ago, and there were dragons t...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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