Famous Wised Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Hard Rock Returns To Prison From The Hospital For The Criminal Insane

by Etheridge Knight
 Hard Rock/ was/ "known not to take no **** 
From nobody," and he had the scars to prove it:
Split purple lips, lumbed ears, welts above
His yellow eyes, and one long scar that cut
Across his temple and plowed through a thick 
Canopy of kinky hair. 

The WORD/ was/ that Hard Rock wasn't a mean ******
Anymore, that the doctors had bored...Read more of this...

My Trinity

by Robert William Service
 For all good friends who care to read,
here let me lyre my living creed . . .

One: you may deem me Pacifist,
For I've no sympathy with strife.
Like hell I hate the iron fist,
And shun the battle-ground of life.
The hope of peace is dear to me,
And I to Christian faith belong,
Holding that breath should sacred be,
 And War is always...Read more of this...

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