Famous Beleaguerment Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Beleaguerment poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous beleaguerment poems. These examples illustrate what a famous beleaguerment poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Wilde, Oscar
...mely spent;
It was for thee gold-crested Hector tried
With Thetis' child that evil race to run,
In the last year of thy beleaguerment;
Ay! even now the glory of thy fame
Burns in those fields of trampled asphodel,
Where the high lords whom Ilion knew so well
Clash ghostly shields, and call upon thy name.
Where hast thou been? in that enchanted land
Whose slumbering vales forlorn Calypso knew,
Where never mower rose at break of day
But all unswathed the trammelling grasse...Read more of this...
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