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Famous Alcor Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...ell with yell, they fired the tower,
Which half that autumn night, like the live North,
Red-pulsing up thro' Alioth and Alcor,
Made all above it, and a hundred meres
About it, as the water Moab saw
Come round by the East, and out beyond them flush'd
The long low dune, and lazy-plunging sea.


So all the ways were safe from shore to shore,
But in the heart of Arthur pain was lord.


Then, out of Tristram waking, the red dream
Fled with a shout, and that low lodge retur...Read More



by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...with yell, they fired the tower, 
Which half that autumn night, like the live North, 
Red-pulsing up through Alioth and Alcor, 
Made all above it, and a hundred meres 
About it, as the water Moab saw 
Came round by the East, and out beyond them flushed 
The long low dune, and lazy-plunging sea. 

So all the ways were safe from shore to shore, 
But in the heart of Arthur pain was lord. 

Then, out of Tristram waking, the red dream 
Fled with a shout, and that low lodge...Read More

by Abercrombie, Lascelles
...et, 
Though I'm a grey man and have been at sea 
Longer than you've been walking. My old sight 
Can tell Mizar from Alcor still. 

Thomas Ay, so; 
Doubtless you'll bring me safe to India. 
But being there -- tell me now of the land: 
How use they strangers there? 

Captain Queerly, sometimes 
If the king's moody, and tired of feeling nerves 
Mildly made happy with soft jewels of silk, 
Odours and wines and slim lascivious girls, 
And yearns for sharper thrills to ...Read More

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