Famous Bided Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Bided poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous bided poems. These examples illustrate what a famous bided poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...omes,
having buried their friends, seeing their way into Frisland,
their houses and high-fortresses. Hengest however
bided there the entire death-flecked winter
with Finn, entirely against his will. He remembered
his own home, although he could not sail there on the seas,
on a ring-prowed ship, the ocean welling with storms,
dark and windy. Winter locked the waves
with icy bonds, until there came another year
to the habitations of men, just as it always does
attendi...Read more of this...
by
Anonymous,
...ll the ghostly ravager
him {10a} could not hurl to haunts of darkness;
wakeful, ready, with warrior’s wrath,
bold he bided the battle’s issue.
XI
THEN from the moorland, by misty crags,
with God’s wrath laden, Grendel came.
The monster was minded of mankind now
sundry to seize in the stately house.
Under welkin he walked, till the wine-palace there,
gold-hall of men, he gladly discerned,
flashing with fretwork. Not first time, this,
that he the home of Hro...Read more of this...
by
Anonymous,
...sceptre and his crown,
To brood on that River bank
Where the waters flashed and sank
And burrowed in earth and fell
And bided a season below,
For reason that none might know,
Save only Israel
He is Lord of the Last--
The Fifth, most wonderful, Flood.
He hears Her thunder past
And Her Song is in his blood.
He can foresay: "She will fall,"
For he knows which fountain dries
Behind which desert-belt
A thousand leagues to the South.
He can foresay: "She will rise."
He knows what...Read more of this...
by
Kipling, Rudyard
...s my sma' doggie
Than a dozen sic' as thou!
"Nae use, nae use for sighs and tears:
Nae use at all to fret:
Sin' ye've bided sae well for thirty years,
Ye may bide a wee langer yet!"
Sadly, sadly he crossed the floor
And tirled at the pin:
Sadly went he through the door
Where sadly he cam' in.
"O gin I had a popinjay
To fly abune my head,
To tell me what I ought to say,
I had by this been wed.
"O gin I find anither ladye,"
He said wi' sighs and tears,
"I wot my coortin...Read more of this...
by
Carroll, Lewis
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