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Famous Writing On The Wall Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...what the priest did say;

"Grim curses out of Peter and of Paul;
Judging of strange sins in Leviticus;
Another sort of writing on the wall,
Scored deep across the painted heads of us.

"Christ sitting with the woman at the well,
And Mary Magdalen repenting there,
Her dimmed eyes scorch'd and red at sight of hell
So hardly 'scaped, no gold light on her hair.

"And if the priest said anything that seemed
To touch upon the sin they said we did,
(This in their teeth) the...Read more of this...
by Morris, William



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