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Famous Bearings Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...ce might a prince adorn;
Frae the downs o’ Tinwald, so was never worn.
 Buy braw troggin, &c.


Here’s armorial bearings frae the manse o’ Urr;
The crest, a sour crab-apple, rotten at the core.
 Buy braw troggin, &c.


Here’s the worth and wisdom Collieston can boast;
By a thievish midge they had been nearly lost.
 Buy braw troggin, &c.


Here is Satan’s picture, like a bizzard gled,
Pouncing poor Redcastle, sprawlin’ like a taed.
 Buy braw troggin...Read more of this...



by Frost, Robert
...e you."

We made a day of it out of the world,
Ascending to descend to reascend.
The old man seriously took his bearings,
And spoke his doubts in every open place.

We came out on a look-off where we faced
A cliff, and on the cliff a bottle painted,
Or stained by vegetation from above,
A likeness to surprise the thrilly tourist.

"Well, if I haven't brought you to the fountain,
At least I've brought you to the famous Bottle."

"I won't accept the substitut...Read more of this...

by Pope, Alexander
...other suns,
What varied being peoples ev'ry star,
May tell why Heav'n has made us as we are.
But of this frame the bearings, and the ties,
The strong connections, nice dependencies,
Gradations just, has thy pervading soul
Look'd through? or can a part contain the whole?

Is the great chain, that draws all to agree,
And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee?II. 

Presumptuous man! the reason wouldst thou find,
Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?
First, if th...Read more of this...

by Levine, Philip
...d runs to the heart and finds it locked. 

Morning is exhaustion, tranquilizers, gasoline, 
the screaming of frozen bearings, 
the failures ofwill, the TV talking to itself 

The clouds go on eating oil, cigars, 
housewives, sighing letters, 
the breath of lies. In their great silent pockets 
they carry off all our dead. 

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The clouds collect until there's no sky. 
A boat slips its moorings and drifts 
toward the open sea, turning and turning. 

The moo...Read more of this...

by Pope, Alexander
...her suns, 
What vary'd being peoples ev'ry star, 
May tell why Heav'n has made us as we are. 
But of this frame the bearings, and the ties, 
The strong connections, nice dependencies, 
Gradations just, has thy pervading soul 
Look'd thro'? or can a part contain the whole? 
Is the great chain, that draws all to agree, 
And drawn supports, upheld by God, or thee?

II. Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find, 
Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind! 
First, i...Read more of this...



by Service, Robert William
...I am safer up there!

I prowl in the canyons of dismal unrest;
I cringe -- I'm so weak and so small.
I can't get my bearings, I'm crushed and oppressed
With the haste and the waste of it all.
The slaves and the madman, the lust and the sweat,
The fear in the faces I see;
The getting, the spending, the fever, the fret --
It's too bleeding cruel for me.

I feel it's all wrong, but I can't tell you why --
The palace, the hovel next door;
The insolent towers that spra...Read more of this...

by Smart, Christopher
...th thankfulness. 

For the lack of Rye may be supplied by Spelt. 

For languages work into one another by their bearings. 

For the power of some animal is predominant in every language. 

For the power and spirit of a CAT is in the Greek. 

For the sound of a cat is in the most useful preposition êáô' åõ÷çí . 

For the pleasantry of a cat at pranks is in the language ten thousand times over. 

For JACK UPON PRANCK is in the performance of gåñé tog...Read more of this...

by Carman, Bliss
...heart, and light 
The lantern of love there to shine afar. 
On a tumultuous sea 
Some straining craft, maybe, 
With bearings lost, shall sight love’s silver star....Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...cities that I set there.
 They will rediscover rivers -- not my rivers heard at night.
By my own old marks and bearings they will show me how to get there,
 By the lonely cairns I builded they will guide my feet aright.

Have I named one single river? Have I claimed one single acre?
 Have I kept one single nugget -- (barring samples)? No, not I!
Because my price was paid me ten times over by my Maker.
 But you wouldn't understand it. You go up and occupy....Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...ly, 
When beneath his roof they come. 
Thus her heart rejoices greatly, 
Till a gateway she discerns 
With armorial bearings stately, 
And beneath the gate she turns; 
Sees a mansion more majestic 
Than all those she saw before: 
Many a gallant gay domestic 
Bows before him at the door. 
And they speak in gentle murmur, 
When they answer to his call, 
While he treads with footstep firmer, 
Leading on from hall to hall. 
And, while now she wonders blindly, 
Nor the...Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...ooked on the grating -- that oily, treacly sea --]
'Hundred and Eighteen East, remember, and South just Three.
Easy bearings to carry -- Three South-Three to the dot;
But I gave McAndrew a copy in case of dying -- or not.
And so you'll write to McAndrew, he's Chief of the Maori Line
They'Il give him leave, if you ask 'em and say it's business o' mine.
I built three boats for the Maoris, an' very well pleased they were,
An I've known Mac since the Fifties, and Mac ...Read more of this...

by Carroll, Lewis
...,
He seemed to hear and not to hear. 

"Tears kindle not the doubtful spark.
If so, why not? Of this remark
The bearings are profoundly dark." 

"Her speech," he said, "hath caused this pain.
Easier I count it to explain
The jargon of the howling main, 

"Or, stretched beside some babbling brook,
To con, with inexpressive look,
An unintelligible book." 

Low spake the voice within his head,
In words imagined more than said,
Soundless as ghost's intended tr...Read more of this...

by McGonagall, William Topaz
...remembered for a very long time;
The wreck of the steamer "Stella" that was wrecked on the Casquet Rocks,
By losing her bearings in a fog, and received some terrible shocks. 

The "Stella" was bound for the Channel Islands on a holiday trip,
And a number of passengers were resolved not to let the chance slip;
And the hearts of the passengers felt light and gay,
As the "Stella" steamed out of the London Docks without delay. 

The vessel left London at a quarter-past el...Read more of this...

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