Famous Aided Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Description of a City Shower

...hen turning, stop 
To rail; she singing, still whirls on her Mop. 
Not yet, the Dust had shun'd th'unequal Strife, 
But aided by the Wind, fought still for Life; 
And wafted with its Foe by violent Gust, 
'Twas doubtful which was Rain, and which was Dust. 
Ah! where must needy Poet seek for Aid, 
When Dust and Rain at once his Coat invade; 
Sole Coat, where Dust cemented by the Rain, 
Erects the Nap, and leaves a cloudy Stain.

Now in contiguous Drops the Flood comes down, 
T...Read more of this...
by Swift, Jonathan


An Ode to Himself

...y lyre,
Strike in thy proper strain,
With Japhet's line aspire
Sol's chariot for new fire,
To give the world again;
Who aided him will thee, the issue of Jove's brain.

And since our dainty age
Cannot endure reproof,
Make not thyself a page
To that strumpet, the stage,
But sing high and aloof,
Safe from the wolf's black jaw and the dull ass's hoof....Read more of this...
by Jonson, Ben

Beowulf (Old English)

...th,
fairest fields enfolded by water,
set, triumphant, sun and moon
for a light to lighten the land-dwellers,
and braided bright the breast of earth
with limbs and leaves, made life for all
of mortal beings that breathe and move.
So lived the clansmen in cheer and revel
a winsome life, till one began
to fashion evils, that field of hell.
Grendel this monster grim was called,
march-riever {1e} mighty, in moorland living,
in fen and fastness; fief of the giants
the...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Endymion: Book IV

...th the best music in a first-born song.
Thy lute-voic'd brother will I sing ere long,
And thou shalt aid--hast thou not aided me?
Yes, moonlight Emperor! felicity
Has been thy meed for many thousand years;
Yet often have I, on the brink of tears,
Mourn'd as if yet thou wert a forester,--
Forgetting the old tale.

 He did not stir
His eyes from the dead leaves, or one small pulse
Of joy he might have felt. The spirit culls
Unfaded amaranth, when wild it strays
Through the old ...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

Fit the Sixth ( Hunting of the Snark )

...ends, the whole question depends
On an ancient manorial right. 

"In the matter of Treason the pig would appear
To have aided, but scarcely abetted: 
While the charge of Insolvency fails, it is clear, 
If you grant the plea 'never indebted'. 

"The fact of Desertion I will not dispute: 
But its guilt, as I trust, is removed
(So far as relates to the costs of this suit) 
By the Alibi which has been proved. 

"My poor client's fate now depends on your votes." 
Here the speaker ...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis


MFingal - Canto IV

...his rear.
Go on, great Gen'ral, nor regard
The scoffs of every scribbling bard;
Who sings how gods, that fearful night,
Aided by miracle your flight,
As once they used, in Homer's day,
To help weak heroes run away;
Tells how the hours, at this sad trial,
Went back, as erst on Ahaz' dial,
While British Joshua stay'd the moon
On Monmouth plains for Ajalon.
Heed not their sneers or gibes so arch,
Because she set before your march.
A small mistake! your meaning right;
You take he...Read more of this...
by Trumbull, John

Outside The Ball-room

...e'er threatened to betray, 
 Whose eyes are joyous, and whose heart is gay; 
 Around whose modesty a hundred arms, 
 Aided by pride, protect a thousand charms; 
 For you this ball is pregnant with delight; 
 As glitt'ring planets cheer the gloomy night:— 
 But, O, ye wist not, while your souls are glad, 
 How millions wander, homeless, sick and sad! 
 Hazard has placed you in a happy sphere, 
 And like your own to you all lots appear; 
 For blinded by the sun of bli...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

Paradise Lost: Book 06

...hy care 
To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds 
Judged thee perverse: The easier conquest now 
Remains thee, aided by this host of friends, 
Back on thy foes more glorious to return, 
Than scorned thou didst depart; and to subdue 
By force, who reason for their law refuse, 
Right reason for their law, and for their King 
Messiah, who by right of merit reigns. 
Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince, 
And thou, in military prowess next, 
Gabriel, lead forth to batt...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Punch Song (To be sung in the Northern Countries)

...On the mountain's breezy summit,
Where the southern sunbeams shine,
Aided by their warming vigor,
Nature yields the golden wine.

How the wondrous mother formeth,
None have ever read aright;
Hid forever is her working,
And inscrutable her might.

Sparkling as a son of Phoebus,
As the fiery source of light,
From the vat it bubbling springeth,
Purple, and as crystal bright;

And rejoiceth all the senses,
And in every sorrowing...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

The Battle of Cressy

...ory,
By the loss of innocent blood which I'11 relate in story. 

To the field of Cressy boldly King Philip did advance,
Aided by the Bohemian Army and chosen men of France,
And treble the strength of the English Army that day,
But the lance thrusts of the English soon made them give way. 

The English Army was under the command of the Prince of Wales,
And with ringing cheers the soldiers his presence gladly hails,
As King Edward spoke to the Prince, his son, and said,
My son ...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

The Battle of Inkermann

...een Guardsmen fighting manfully,
And they drove the Russians down the hillside right speedily. 

The French and Zouaves aided the British in the fight,
And they shot down and killed the Russians left and right,
And the Chasseurs also joined in the fight,
And the Russians fell back in great afright. 

Then the Russians tried again and again
To drive the British from the slopes of Inkermann, but all in vain,
For the French and British beat them back without dismay,
Until at las...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

The Emigrants: Book II

...the imperious Lord, that leads
His disciplin'd destroyers to the field.----
May lovely Freedom, in her genuine charms,
Aided by stern but equal Justice, drive
From the ensanguin'd earth the hell-born fiends
Of Pride, Oppression, Avarice, and Revenge,
That ruin what thy mercy made so fair!
Then shall these ill-starr'd wanderers, whose sad fate
These desultory lines lament, regain
Their native country; private vengeance then
To public virtue yield; and the fierce feuds,
That l...Read more of this...
by Turner Smith, Charlotte

The Hunting Of The Snark

...nds, the whole question depends
 On an ancient manorial right.

"In the matter of Treason the pig would appear
 To have aided, but scarcely abetted:
While the charge of Insolvency fails, it is clear,
 If you grant the plea 'never indebted.'

"The fact of Desertion I will not dispute;
 But its guilt, as I trust, is removed
(So far as relates to the costs of this suit)
 By the Alibi which has been proved.

"My poor client's fate now depends on your votes."
 Here the speaker sat...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis

The Lady of the Lake

...e memory of the lonely isle!
     III.

     Song Continued.

     'But if beneath yon southern sky
          A plaided stranger roam,
     Whose drooping crest and stifled sigh,
     And sunken cheek and heavy eye,
          Pine for his Highland home;
     Then, warrior, then be thine to show
     The care that soothes a wanderer's woe;
     Remember then thy hap erewhile,
     A stranger in the lonely isle.

     'Or if on life's uncertain main
          Mi...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

These held their Wick above the West --

...These held their Wick above the West --
Till when the Red declined --
Or how the Amber aided it --
Defied to be defined --

Then waned without disparagement
In a dissembling Hue
That would not let the Eye decide
Did it abide or no --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Tis Sunrise -- Little Maid -- Hast Thou

...Instead of Morning -- Had'st thou broached
Thy little Plan to Die --
Dissuade thee, if I could not, Sweet,
I might have aided -- thee --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

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