Get Your Premium Membership

Best Famous Forebode Poems

Here is a collection of the all-time best famous Forebode poems. This is a select list of the best famous Forebode poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Forebode poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of forebode poems.

Search and read the best famous Forebode poems, articles about Forebode poems, poetry blogs, or anything else Forebode poem related using the PoetrySoup search engine at the top of the page.

See Also:
Written by Sir Walter Scott | Create an image from this poem

Rosabelle

 O listen, listen, ladies gay! 
No haughty feat of arms I tell; 
Soft is the note, and sad the lay 
That mourns the lovely Rosabelle. 

‘Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew! 
And, gentle lady, deign to stay! 
Rest thee in Castle Ravensheuch, 
Nor tempt the stormy firth to-day. 

‘The blackening wave is edged with white; 
To inch and rock the sea-mews fly; 
The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, 
Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh. 

‘Last night the gifted Seer did view 
A wet shroud swathed round lady gay; 
Then stay thee, Fair, in Ravensheuch; 
Why cross the gloomy firth to-day?’ 

’Tis not because Lord Lindesay’s heir 
Tonight at Roslin leads the ball, 
But that my lady-mother there 
Sits lonely in her castle-hall.

’Tis not because the ring they ride, 
And Lindesay at the ring rides well, 
But that my sire the wine will chide 
If ’tis not fill’d by Rosabelle.’ 

—O’er Roslin all that dreary night 
A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam; 
’Twas broader than the watch-fire’s light, 
And redder than the bright moonbeam. 

It glared on Roslin’s castled rock, 
It ruddied all the copse-wood glen; 
’Twas seen from Dryden’s groves of oak, 
And seen from cavern’d Hawthornden. 

Seem’d all on fire that chapel proud 
Where Roslin’s chiefs uncoffin’d lie, 
Each Baron, for a sable shroud, 
Sheathed in his iron panoply. 

Seem’d all on fire within, around, 
Deep sacristy and altar’s pale; 
Shone every pillar foliage-bound, 
And glimmer’d all the dead men’s mail. 

Blazed battlement and pinnet high, 
Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair— 
So still they blaze, when fate is nigh 
The lordly line of high Saint Clair. 

There are twenty of Roslin’s barons bold 
Lie buried within that proud chapelle; 
Each one the holy vault doth hold 
But the sea holds lovely Rosabelle! 

And each Saint Clair was buried there 
With candle, with book, and with knell; 
But the sea-caves rung, and the wild winds sung 
The dirge of lovely Rosabelle.


Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Create an image from this poem

The Godlike

 NOBLE be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Distinguisheth him
From all the beings
Unto us known.

Hail to the beings,
Unknown and glorious,
Whom we forebode!
From his example
Learn we to know them!

For unfeeling
Nature is ever:
On bad and on good
The sun alike shineth;
And on the wicked,
As on the best,
The moon and stars gleam.

Tempest and torrent,
Thunder and hail,
Roar on their path,
Seizing the while,
As they haste onward,
One after another.

Even so, fortune
Gropes 'mid the throng--
Innocent boyhood's
Curly head seizing,--
Seizing the hoary
Head of the sinner.

After laws mighty,
Brazen, eternal,
Must all we mortals
Finish the circuit
Of our existence.

Man, and man only
Can do the impossible;
He 'tis distinguisheth,
Chooseth and judgeth;
He to the moment
Endurance can lend.

He and he only
The good can reward,
The bad can he punish,
Can heal and can save;
All that wanders and strays
Can usefully blend.
And we pay homage
To the immortals
As though they were men,
And did in the great,
What the best, in the small,
Does or might do.

Be the man that is noble,
Both helpful and good.
Unweariedly forming
The right and the useful,
A type of those beings
Our mind hath foreshadow'd!

 1782.
Written by Eugene Field | Create an image from this poem

Little all-aloney

 Little All-Aloney's feet
Pitter-patter in the hall,
And his mother runs to meet
And to kiss her toddling sweet,
Ere perchance he fall.
He is, oh, so weak and small!
Yet what danger shall he fear
When his mother hovereth near,
And he hears her cheering call:
"All-Aloney"?

Little All-Aloney's face
It is all aglow with glee,
As around that romping-place
At a terrifying pace
Lungeth, plungeth he!
And that hero seems to be
All unconscious of our cheers -
Only one dear voice he hears
Calling reassuringly:
"All-Aloney!"

Though his legs bend with their load,
Though his feet they seem so small
That you cannot help forebode
Some disastrous episode
In that noisy hall,
Neither threatening bump nor fall
Little All-Aloney fears,
But with sweet bravado steers
Whither comes that cheery call:
"All-Aloney!"

Ah, that in the years to come,
When he shares of Sorrow's store, -
When his feet are chill and numb,
When his cross is burdensome,
And his heart is sore:
Would that he could hear once more
The gentle voice he used to hear -
Divine with mother love and cheer -
Calling from yonder spirit shore:
"All, all alone!"

Book: Reflection on the Important Things