Famous Allied Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Ainsi Va le Monde

...ademy at Florence, and Author of the Laurel of Liberty, and the Della Crusca Poems.]


O THOU, to whom superior worth's allied,
Thy Country's honour­and the MUSES' pride;
Whose pen gives polish to the varying line
That blends instruction with the song divine;
Whose fancy, glancing o'er the hostile plain,
Plants a fond trophy o'er the mighty slain; I 
Or to the daisied lawn directs its way,
Blithe as the songstress of returning day;
Who deign'd to rove where twinkling glow-wor...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby


An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1

...ine!
'Twixt that, and reason, what a nice barrier;
For ever sep'rate, yet for ever near!
Remembrance and reflection how allied;
What thin partitions sense from thought divide:
And middle natures, how they long to join,
Yet never pass th' insuperable line!
Without this just gradation, could they be
Subjected, these to those, or all to thee?
The pow'rs of all subdu'd by thee alone,
Is not thy reason all these pow'rs in one?VIII. 


See, through this air, this ocean, and this ea...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

Beowulf (Modern English)

...the terror of Grendel. I must offer treasures
to that good chieftain for his mindful courage.
Be of haste, bid their allied band to enter and be seen,
gathered together. Say to them wordfully as well
that they are welcome among the Danish people.” (ll. 371-89a)

[Then Wulfgar went to the door of the hall,] announcing his word from within:
“My victorious lord, ruler of the East-Danes,
has ordered me to tell you that he knows of your heritage
and you are welcome by hi...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Eviradnus

...n corpse a giant force had grown. 
 "'Tis well!" said Eviradnus, and he cried, 
 "Arrange between yourselves, you two allied; 
 If hell-fire were extinguished, surely it 
 By such a contest might be all relit; 
 From kindling spark struck out from dead King's brow, 
 Batt'ring to death a living Emperor now." 
 
 And Sigismond, thus met and horrified, 
 Recoiled to near the unseen opening wide; 
 The human club was raised, and struck again * * * 
 And Eviradnus did ...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

Heritage

...mbs, and keep them there,
Great drums throbbing through the air.
So I lie, whose fount of pride,
Dear distress, and joy allied,
Is my somber flesh and skin,
With the dark blood dammed within
Like great pulsing tides of wine
That, I fear, must burst the fine
Channels of the chafing net
Where they surge and foam and fret.

Africa?A book one thumbs
Listlessly, till slumber comes.
Unremembered are her bats
Circling through the night, her cats
Crouching in the river reeds,
Stalkin...Read more of this...
by Cullen, Countee


Initial Love

...privilege
Not allowed to any liege,
For he does go behind all law,
And right into himself does draw,
For he is sovranly allied.
Heaven's oldest blood flows in his side,
And interchangeably at one
With every king on every throne,
That no God dare say him nay,
Or see the fault, or seen betray;
He has the Muses by the heart,
And the Parcæ all are of his part.

His many signs cannot be told,
He has not one mode, but manifold,
Many fashions and addresses,
Piques, reproaches, hurts...Read more of this...
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Last Instructions to a Painter

...ay still with fresh loss returns: 
The Loyal London now the third time burns, 
And the true Royal Oak and Royal James, 
Allied in fate, increase, with theirs, her flames. 
Of all our navy none should now survive, 
But that the ships themselves were taught to dive, 
And the kind river in its creek them hides, 
Fraughting their pierc?d keels with oozy tides. 

Up to the bridge contagious terror struck: 
The Tower itself with the near danger shook, 
And were not Ruyter's maw wit...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

MFingal - Canto II

...h denounced,
And told you how you'd soon be trounced?
I see, to join our conq'ring side,
Heaven, earth and hell at once allied;
See from your overthrow and end,
The Tory paradise ascend,
Like that new world, which claims its station,
Beyond the final conflagration.
I see the day, that lots your share
In utter darkness and despair;
The day of joy, when North, our lord,
His faithful fav'rites shall reward.
No Tory then shall set before him
Small wish of 'Squire and Justice Quor...Read more of this...
by Trumbull, John

My Last Will

...nd I am I." 
While we live, the waking sense 
Feeds upon our difference, 
In our passion and our pride 
Not united, but allied. 

We are severed by the sun, 
And by darkness are made one....Read more of this...
by Raleigh, Sir Walter

Paris

...ng the mass comrades and lovers everywhere, 


A law that's sane, a Love that's free, and men of every birth and blood 
Allied in one great brotherhood of Art and Joy and Poverty. . . . 


The open cafe-windows frame loungers at their liqueurs and beer, 
And walking past them one can hear fragments of Tosca and Boheme. 


And in the brilliant-lighted door of cinemas the barker calls, 
And lurid posters paint the walls with scenes of Love and crime and war. 


But follow past ...Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan

Phyllis

...ainst those who seek you out.

    I well know what powerful arms
you wield in pressing for evil:
your arrogance is allied
with the world, the flesh, and the devil!...Read more of this...
by Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor

Rabbi Ben Ezra

...ing ended, then
As sure an end to men;
Irks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast?

Rejoice we are allied
To That which doth provide
And not partake, effect and not receive!
A spark disturbs our clod;
Nearer we hold of God
Who gives, than of His tribes that take, I must believe.

Then, welcome each rebuff
That turns earth's smoothness rough,
Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go!
Be our joys three-parts pain!
Strive, and hold cheap the strain;
Lea...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

The Deserted Village

...in;
Along the lawn, where scattered hamlet's rose,
Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose,
And every want to opulence allied,
And every pang that folly pays to pride.
Those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom,
Those calm desires that asked but little room,
Those healthful sports that graced the peaceful scene,
Lived in each look, and brightened all the green;
These, far departing, seek a kinder shore,
And rural mirth and manners are no more.

Sweet Auburn! parent of the ...Read more of this...
by Goldsmith, Oliver

The Lady of the Lake

...fever of his mind.
     Eager he read whatever tells
     Of magic, cabala, and spells,
     And every dark pursuit allied
     To curious and presumptuous pride;
     Till with fired brain and nerves o'erstrung,
     And heart with mystic horrors wrung,
     Desperate he sought Benharrow's den,
     And hid him from the haunts of men.
     VII.

     The desert gave him visions wild,
     Such as might suit the spectre's child.
     Where with black cliffs the ...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Legend of Mirth

...hat e 'en Perfection's self could ask. . .
And Allah, Who created Zeal and Pride,
Knows how the twain are perilous-near allied.


It chanced on one of Heaven's long-lighted days,
The Four and all the Host being gone their ways
Each to his Charge, the shining Courts were void
Save for one Seraph whom no charge employed,
With folden wings and slumber-threatened brow,
To whom The Word: "Beloved, what dost thou?"
"By the Permission," came the answer soft,
Little I do nor do that ...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Owl And The Sparrow

...pain, but did not dare
Disclose his passion to the fair;
For much he fear'd her conscious pride
Of race, to noble blood allied.
Her grandsire's nest conspicuous stood,
Mid loftiest branches of the wood,
In airy height, that scorn'd to know
Each flitting wing that waved below.
So doubting, on a point so nice
He deem'd it best to take advice.


Hard by there dwelt an aged Owl,
Of all his friends the gravest fowl;
Who from the cares of business free,
Lived, hermit, in a hollow t...Read more of this...
by Trumbull, John

Threnody

...dren forward and behind, 
Like Cupids studiously inclined; 
And he the chieftain paced beside, 
The centre of the troop allied, 
With sunny face of sweet repose, 
To guard the babe from fancied foes. 
The little captain innocent 
Took the eye with him as he went; 
Each village senior paused to scan 
And speak the lovely caravan. 
From the window I look out 
To mark thy beautiful parade, 
Stately marching in cap and coat 
To same tune by fairies played;-- 
A music heard by the...Read more of this...
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Threnody

...ldren forward and behind,
Like Cupids studiously inclined,
And he, the Chieftain, paced beside,
The centre of the troop allied,
With sunny face of sweet repose,
To guard the babe from fancied foes,
The little Captain innocent
Took the eye with him as he went,
Each village senior paused to scan
And speak the lovely caravan.

From the window I look out
To mark thy beautiful parade
Stately marching in cap and coat
To some tune by fairies played;
A music heard by thee alone
To wo...Read more of this...
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

...Farewell, too little, and too lately known,
Whom I began to think and call my own:
For sure our souls were near allied, and thine
Cast in the same poetic mold with mine.
One common note on either lyre did strike,
And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike.
To the same goal did both our studies drive;
The last set out the soonest did arrive.
Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place,
While his young friend performed and won the race.
O early ripe! to thy abundan...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John

You Men

...
against those who seek you out.

I well know what powerful arms
you wield in pressing for evil:
your arrogance is allied
with the world, the flesh, and the devil! ...Read more of this...
by Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor

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