History WhamLine / Poetry

** By the same poet (Edwin Arlington Robinson), we get the poem of "Miniver Cheevy", who hates the modern world and wishes he had lived in the time of knightly chivalry. The last verse goes:

* "And [[Literature/CollectedPoems1921 Richard Cory]], one calm summer night, [[StepfordSmiler went home and put a bullet through his head.]]"

* The ending of "Ballad of Birmingham" (about the 1963 KKK bombing that killed 4 black girls attending church) by Dudley Randall
--> "O here's the shoe my baby wore/but baby, where are you?"

-->"...That moment she was mine, mine, fair,/Perfectly pure and good: I found/A thing to do,and all her hair/In one long yellow string I wound/Three times her little throat around,/And strangled her..."

** By the same poet (Edwin Arlington Robinson), we get the poem of Miniver Cheevy, who wishes he'd lived in the time of knightly chivalry. The last verse goes: "Miniver Cheevy, born too late,/Scratched his head and kept on thinking;/Miniver coughed, and called it fate,/[[TheAlcoholic And kept on drinking.]]"

** By the same poet (Creator/EdwinArlingtonRobinson), we get the poem of Miniver Cheevey, who wishes he'd lived in the time of knightly chivalry. The last verse goes: "Miniver Cheevey, born too late/Scratched his head and kept on thinking/Miniver coughed and called it fate/[[TheAlcoholic And kept on drinking.]]"

* The ending of "Dirty Blood" from Marc Brightside's collection ''{{Keep It In The Family}}'':

* "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge starts as an old sailor telling a sea tale to a younger wedding guest. The ship survived a storm and a cute albatross followed the ship, played with the crew, and became the ship's mascot. Then the sailor makes his confession:

* "And [[Literature/CollectedPoems1921 Richard Cory]], one calm summer night, [[[[StepfordSmiler went home and put a bullet through his head.]]"

* "[[StepfordSmiler And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head.]]"

** By the same poet (Creator/EdwardArlingtonRobinson), we get the poem of Miniver Cheevey, who wishes he'd lived in the time of knightly chivalry. The last verse goes: "Miniver Cheevey, born too late/Scratched his head and kept on thinking/Miniver coughed and called it fate/[[TheAlcoholic And kept on drinking.]]"

** By the same poet (Edwin Arlington Robinson), we get the poem of Miniver Cheevey, who wishes he'd lived in the time of knightly chivalry. The last verse goes: "Miniver Cheevey, born too late/Scratched his head and kept on thinking/Miniver coughed and called it fate/[[TheAlcoholic And kept on drinking.]]"

* The ending of "Ballad of Birmingham" (about the 1963 KKK bombing that killed 4 black girls attending church) by Dudley Randall: "O here's the shoe my baby wore/but baby, where are you?"

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* The ending of "Ballad of Birmingham" (about the 1963 KKK bombing that killed 4 black girls attending church) by Dudley Randall: "O here's the shoe my baby wore/but baby, where are you?"

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* In "Ozymandias" by Creator/PercyByssheShelley, the statement of the great king and the revelation after comprise the Wham Phrase.

* "Porphyria's Lover" by RobertBrowning starts off as a standard Victorian romantic poem about a man waiting in a cold, "cheerless" cottage for his lover Porphyria to arrive. She comes in out of the driving rain, kindles a fire, and pledges her love for the narrator. Then we get this:

** By the same poet (Edwin Arlington Robinson), we get the poem of Miniver Cheevey, who wishes he'd lived in the time of knightly chivalry. The last verse goes: Miniver Cheevey, born too late/Scratched his head and kept on thinking/Miniver coughed and called it fate/[[TheAlcoholic And kept on drinking.]]

* In "Ozymandius" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the statement of the great king and the revelation after comprise the Wham Phrase.

** By the same poet (Edwin Arlington Robinson), we get the poem of Miniver Cheevey, who wishes he'd lived in the time of knightly chivalry. The last verse goes: Miniver Cheevey, born too late/Scratched his head and kept on thinking/Miniver coughed and called it fate/[[TheAlcoholic And kept on drinking.]]

** By the same poet (Edwin Arlington Robinson), we get the poem of Miniver Cheevey, who wishes he'd lived in the time of knightly chivalry. The last verse goes: Miniver Cheevey, born too late/Scratched his head and kept on thinking/Miniver coughed and called it fate/[[TheAlchoholic And kept on drinking.]]

* "[[StepfordSmiler And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head.]]"