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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Dream Song 172: Your face broods

by John Berryman
 Your face broods from my table, Suicide.
Your force came on like a torrent toward the end
of agony and wrath.
You were christened in the beginning Sylvia Plath
and changed that name for Mrs Hughes and bred
and went on round the bend

till the oven seemed the proper place for you.
I brood upon your face, the geography of grief,
hooded, till I allow
again your...Read more of this...

The Seraph and the Poet

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 THE seraph sings before the manifest
God-One, and in the burning of the Seven,
And with the full life of consummate
Heaving beneath him like a mother's
Warm with her first-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 !...Read more of this...

Tesss Lament

by Thomas Hardy
 I 

I would that folk forgot me quite, 
 Forgot me quite! 
I would that I could shrink from sight, 
 And no more see the sun. 
Would it were time to say farewell, 
To claim my nook, to need my knell, 
Time for them all to stand and tell 
 Of my day's work as done. 

II 

Ah!...Read more of this...

The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart

by William Butler Yeats
 All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old,
The cry of a 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...Read more of this...

The Seraph and Poet

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
 The seraph sings before the manifest
God-One, and in the burning of the Seven,
And with the full life of consummate
Heaving beneath him like a mother's
Warm with her first-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 !...Read more of this...

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