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Famous Assassination Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...God prosper long our noble Queen,
And long may she reign!
Maclean he tried to shoot her,
But it was all in vain. 

For God He turned the ball aside
Maclean aimed at her head;
And he felt very angry
Because he didn't shoot her dead. 

There's a divinity that hedges a king,
And so it does seem,
And my opinion is, it has hedged
Our most gracious Queen...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz



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 ("Laissons le glaive à Rome.") 
 
 {Bk. III. xvi., October, 1852.} 


 Pray Rome put up her poniard! 
 And Sparta sheathe the sword; 
 Be none too prompt to punish, 
 And cast indignant word! 
 Bear back your spectral Brutus 
 From robber Bonaparte; 
 Time rarely will refute us 
 Who doom the hateful heart. 
 
 Ye shall be o'erconten...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor
...It begins again, the nocturnal pulse.
It courses through the cables laid for it.
It mounts to the chandeliers and beats there, hotly.
We are too close. Too late, we would move back.
We are involved with the surge.

Now it bursts. Now it has been announced.
Now it is being soaked up by newspapers.
Now it is running throug...Read more of this...
by Justice, Donald

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