10 Best Famous Vanquishing Poems

Here is a collection of the top 10 all-time best famous Vanquishing poems. This is a select list of the best famous Vanquishing poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Vanquishing poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of vanquishing poems.

• All Famous Vanquishing Poems

 Truce, gentle Love, a parley now I crave; 
Methinks 'tis long since first these wars begun; 
Nor thou nor I the better yet can have; 
Bad is the match where neither party won. 
I offer free conditions of fair peace, 
My heart for hostage that it shall remain; 
Discharge our forces, here let malice cease, 
So for my pledge thou give me pledge again. 
Or if no thing but death will serve thy turn, 
Still thirsting for subversion of my state, 
Do what thou canst, rase, massacre, and burn; 
Let the world see the utmost of thy hate; 
I send defiance, since, if overthrown, 
Thou vanquishing, the conquest is my own.

Our toil is He, & eke our journey’s end;
Our life-long ailment & our remedy,
Our foeman & our ever-pitying friend;

Who is more vanquishing than victory,
Fairer than beauty, more belov’d than life;
This is he who our peace is & our strife.

Our strenuous earth is He & eke our Heaven,
The crown of conquest & the armour riven,
The strength, the struggle, yea, the failing even.

Of Him all is, & unto Him also
Doth all return: torment & yearning woe
Surely shall pass, even as pleasures go.

Yea, all have end, beggar & bountied king,
Rapture & tears, resting & wandering.

 You who have lived in the land,
 You who have trusted the trail,
You who are strong to withstand,
 You who are swift to assail:
 Songs have I sung to beguile,
 Vintage of desperate years,
 Hard as a harlot's smile,
 Bitter as unshed tears.

Little of joy or mirth,
 Little of ease I sing;
Sagas of men of earth
 Humanly suffering,
 Such as you all have done;
 Savagely faring forth,
 Sons of the midnight sun,
 Argonauts of the North.

Far in the land God forgot
 Glimmers the lure of your trail;
Still in your lust are you taught
 Even to win is to fail.
 Still you must follow and fight
 Under the vampire wing;
 There in the long, long night
 Hoping and vanquishing.

Husbandman of the Wild,
 Reaping a barren gain;
Scourged by desire, reconciled
 Unto disaster and pain;
 These, my songs, are for you,
 You who are seared with the brand.
 God knows I have tried to be true;
 Please God you will understand.