Famous Adventuring Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Holy Sonnet XVIII: Show me dear Christ thy Spouse so bright and clear

...wore?
Doth she, and did she, and shall she evermore
On one, on seven, or on no hill appear?
Dwells she with us, or like adventuring knights
First travail we to seek and then make love?
Betray, kind husband, thy spouse to our sights,
And let mine amorous soul court thy mild dove,
Who is most true and pleasing to thee then
When she's embraced and open to most men....Read more of this...
by Donne, John


Last Instructions to a Painter

...both set right 
On opp'site points, the black against the white. 
Those having lost the nation at tric-trac, 
These now adventuring how to win it back. 
The dice betwixt them must the fate divide 
(As chance doth still in multitudes decide). 
But here the Court does its advantage know, 
For the cheat Turner for them both must throw. 
As some from boxes, he so from the chair 
Can strike the die and still with them goes share. 

Here, Painter, rest a little, and survey 
With wh...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

MFingal - Canto II

...hro' the town,
In triumph bore the country-clown?
Oh what a glorious work to sing
The veteran troops of Britain's king,
Adventuring for th' heroic laurel
With bag of feathers and tar-barrel!
To paint the cart where culprits ride,
And Nesbitt marching at its side,
Great executioner and proud,
Like hangman high on Holborn road;
And o'er the slow-drawn rumbling car,
The waving ensigns of the war!
As when a triumph Rome decreed
For great Caligula's valiant deed,
Who had subdued t...Read more of this...
by Trumbull, John

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