Vengeance
18 poems
Offence, grudge, payback: poems about vengeance, from ancient tragedy to modern rage. Read them on Loëly.
A Poison Tree
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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0After
Robert Browning
00Among the Rice Fields
Adela Florence Nicolson
00Book III - Atrides then his massy lance prepares
Homère
L'iliade
00Book IX - But the Cyclops, groaning and in an agony of pain
Homère
L'Odyssée
00Book IX - When the child of morning rosy-fingered dawn appeared, he again lit his fire
Homère
L'Odyssée
00Book XI - When Proserpine had dismissed the female ghosts
Homère
L'Odyssée
00Book XVII - They reached the fountain from which the citizens drew their water
Homère
L'Odyssée
00Book XXII - Then Ulysses tore off his rags
Homère
L'Odyssée
00Disdain Returned
Thomas Carew
00Ollie McGee
Edgar Lee Masters
Spoon River Anthology
00Sing a New Song
Francis Bacon
00Sonnet 17 - Poor Love in chains
Mary Wroth
00Sonnet 18 : On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
John Milton
00The Apparition
John Donne
00The Curse
John Millington Synge
00The Martyr
Herman Melville
00The Massacre at Scio
William Cullen Bryant
00Other themes
