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Famous Wronging Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...upon the others
till stricken Henry with his sisters & brothers
suddenly gone pauses to wonder why he
alone breasts the wronging tide....Read more of this...
by Berryman, John



...thought no guile. 
Well, it is finished--past, and he 
Has left me to my misery, 
And I must take my Cross on me 
 For wronging him awhile. 

V 

How gay we looked that day we wed, 
 That day we wed! 
"May joy be with ye!" all o'm said 
 A standing by the durn. 
I wonder what they say o's now, 
And if they know my lot; and how 
She feels who milks my favourite cow, 
 And takes my place at churn! 

VI 

It wears me out to think of it, 
 To think of it; 
I cannot bear my fate ...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas
...child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,
The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintry mould,
Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart,
With the earth and the sky and the water, re-made, like a casket of gold
For my dreams of your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart....Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler
...irst-born's slumber in that
The poet sings upon the earth grave-riven,
Before the naughty world, soon self-forgiven
For wronging him,--and in the darkness prest
From his own soul by worldly weights.
Even so,
Sing, seraph with the glory ! heaven is high;
Sing, poet with the sorrow ! earth is low:
The universe's inward voices cry
' Amen ' to either song of joy and woe:
Sing, seraph,--poet,--sing on equally !...Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
...irst-born's slumber in that
The poet sings upon the earth grave-riven,
Before the naughty world, soon self-forgiven
For wronging him,--and in the darkness prest
From his own soul by worldly weights.
Even so,
Sing, seraph with the glory ! heaven is high;
Sing, poet with the sorrow ! earth is low:
The universe's inward voices cry
' Amen ' to either song of joy and woe:
Sing, seraph,--poet,--sing on equally !...Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett



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