Famous Boldest Poems by Famous Poets

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

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466. Ode for General Washington's Birthday

...te,
 Blasting the despot’s proudest bearing;
Show me that arm which, nerv’d with thundering fate,
 Crush’d Usurpation’s boldest daring!—
Dark-quench’d as yonder sinking star,
No more that glance lightens afar;
That palsied arm no more whirls on the waste of war....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


Beowulf (Old English)

...Hrothgar lived,
and the gleam of it lightened o’er lands afar.
The sturdy shieldsman showed that bright
burg-of-the-boldest; bade them go
straightway thither; his steed then turned,
hardy hero, and hailed them thus: --
“’Tis time that I fare from you. Father Almighty
in grace and mercy guard you well,
safe in your seekings. Seaward I go,
’gainst hostile warriors hold my watch.”



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STONE-BRIGHT the street: {5a} it showed the way
to the crowd of clansmen. Co...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Conroys Gap

...ce. 
Drunk as he was when the trooper came, 
to him that did not matter a rap -- 
Drunk or sober, he was the same, 
The boldest rider in Conroy's Gap. 

"I want you, Ryan," the trooper said, 
"And listen to me, if you dare resist, 
So help me heaven, I'll shoot you dead!" 
He snapped the steel on his prisoner's wrist, 
And Ryan, hearing the handcuffs click, 
Recovered his wits as they turned to go, 
For fright will sober a man as quick 
As all the drugs that the doctors know....Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

Courage

...CARELESSLY over the plain away,
Where by the boldest man no path
Cut before thee thou canst discern,
Make for thyself a path!

Silence, loved one, my heart!
Cracking, let it not break!
Breaking, break not with thee!

 1776.*...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Father Rileys Horse

...aveyard at the back of Kiley's Hill; 
There were five-and-twenty mourners who had five-and-twenty fights 
Till the very boldest fighters had their fill. 
There were fifty horses racing from the graveyard to the pub, 
And their riders flogged each other all the while. 
And the lashin's of the liquor! And the lavin's of the grub! 
Oh, poor Andy went to rest in proper style. 

Then the races came to Kiley's -- with a steeplechase and all, 
For the folk were mostly Irish round ab...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton


Grief is a Mouse --

...tartled --
Pricks His Ear -- report to hear
Of that Vast Dark --
That swept His Being -- back --

Grief is a Juggler -- boldest at the Play --
Lest if He flinch -- the eye that way
Pounce on His Bruises -- One -- say -- or Three --
Grief is a Gourmand -- spare His luxury --

Best Grief is Tongueless -- before He'll tell --
Burn Him in the Public Square --
His Ashes -- will
Possibly -- if they refuse -- How then know --
Since a Rack couldn't coax a syllable -- now....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Let such pure hate still underprop

...From year to year, 
Does it communicate. 

Pathless the gulf of feeling yawns; 
No trivial bridge of words, 
Or arch of boldest span, 
Can leap the moat that girds 
The sincere man. 

No show of bolts and bars 
Can keep the foeman out, 
Or 'scape his secret mine, 
Who entered with the doubt 
That drew the line. 

No warder at the gate 
Can let the friendly in; 
But, like the sun, o'er all 
He will the castle win, 
And shine along the wall. 

There's nothing in the world I kno...Read more of this...
by Thoreau, Henry David

Of Death I try to think like this --

...us by its roaring
From just the Purple Flower beyond
Until constrained to clutch it
If Doom itself were the result,
The boldest leaped, and clutched it --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Orinda To Lucasia Parting October 1661 At London

...oodness grows.
I ask no inconvenient kindness now,
To move thy passion, or to cloud thy brow;
And thou wilt satisfie my boldest plea
By some few soft remembrances of me, [50]
Which may present thee with this candid thought,
I meant not all the troubles that I brought.
Own not what Passion rules, and Fate does crush,
But wish thou couldst have don't without a blush,
And that I had been, ere it was too late,
Either more worthy, or more fortunate.
Ah who can love the thing they ...Read more of this...
by Philips, Katherine

Paradise Lost: Book 06

...and realty 
Remain not: Wherefore should not strength and might 
There fail where virtue fails, or weakest prove 
Where boldest, though to fight unconquerable? 
His puissance, trusting in the Almighty's aid, 
I mean to try, whose reason I have tried 
Unsound and false; nor is it aught but just, 
That he, who in debate of truth hath won, 
Should win in arms, in both disputes alike 
Victor; though brutish that contest and foul, 
When reason hath to deal with force, yet so 
Most...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Run to Death

...s nostril, sniffed the heather-scented air,
Till at last, within his stirrups, up Lord Gaston rose, and spoke--
He, the boldest and the bravest of the wealthy nobles there :
'Friends,' quoth he, 'the time hangs heavy, for it is not as we thought,
And these woods, tho' fair and shady, will afford, I fear, no sport.
Shall we hence, then, worthy kinsmen, and desert the hunter's track
For the chateau, where the wine cup and the dice cup tempt us back?'
'Ay,' the nobles shout in c...Read more of this...
by Levy, Amy

Sonnet LIX: As Love and I

...o spares to speak doth spare to speed," quoth I; 
"As well," saith he, "too forward as too slow"; 
"Fortune assists the boldest," I reply; 
"A hasty man," quoth he, "ne'er wanted woe"; 
"Labor is light where Love," quoth I, "doth pay"; 
Saith he, "Light burden's heavy, if far borne"; 
Quoth I, "The main lost, cast the bye away"; 
"You have spun a fair thread," he replies in scorn. 
And having thus awhile each other thwarted, 
Fools as we met, so fools again we parted....Read more of this...
by Drayton, Michael

The Aged Pilot Man

...vessel flew,
"Fear not, but trust in Dollinger,
And he will fetch you through."

A panic struck the bravest hearts,
The boldest cheek turned pale;
For plain to all, this shoaling said
A leak had burst the ditch's bed!
And, straight as bolt from crossbow sped,
Our ship swept on, with shoaling lead,
Before the fearful gale!

"Sever the tow-line! Cripple the mules!"
Too late! There comes a shock!
Another length, and the fated craft
Would have swum in the saving lock!

Then gathe...Read more of this...
by Twain, Mark

The Battle of the Baltic

...line: 
It was ten of April morn by the chime: 
As they drifted on their path 
There was silence deep as death, 
And the boldest held his breath 
For a time. 

But the might of England flush'd 
To anticipate the scene; 
And her van the fleeter rush'd 
O'er the deadly space between: 
'Hearts of oak!' our captains cried, when each gun 
From its adamantine lips 
Spread a death-shade round the ships, 
Like the hurricane eclipse 
Of the sun. 

Again! again! again! 
And the havoc di...Read more of this...
by Campbell, Thomas

The Fortune-Teller a Gypsy Tale

...as deny'd:
Now, LUBIN was a modest swain,
And therefore, treated with disdain:
For, it is said, in Love and War ,--
The boldest, most successful are!

Vows, were to him but fairy things
Borne on capricious Fancy's wings;
And promises, the Phantom's Airy
Which falsehood form'd to cheat th' unwary;
For still deception was his trade,
And though his traffic well was known,
Still, every trophy was his own
Which the proud Victor, Love, display'd.
In short, this STEPHEN was the bane...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

The Lady of the Lake

...o fear to be thy foes.
     As safe to me the mountain way
     At midnight as in blaze of day,
     Though with his boldest at his back
     Even Roderick Dhu beset the track.—
     Brave Douglas,—lovely Ellen,—nay,
     Naught here of parting will I say.
     Earth does not hold a lonesome glen
     So secret but we meet again.—
     Chieftain! we too shall find an hour,'—
     He said, and left the sylvan bower.
     XXXVI.

     Old Allan followed to the stra...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Man From Snowy River

...once they gain the shelter of those hills."

So Clancy rode to wheel them—he was racing on the wing
Where the best and boldest riders take their place.
And he raced his stock-horse past them. and he made the ranges ring 
With his stock-whip, as he met them face to face.
Then they halted for a moment, while he swung the dreaded lash,
But they saw their well-loved mountain full in view,
And they charged beneath the stock-whip with a sharp and sudden dash, 
And off into the mou...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

The Parallel

...urning 
Remember the bright things that bless'd them of old. 

Ah, well may we call her, like thee, "the Forsaken,"
Her boldest are vanquish'd, her proudest are slaves; 
And the harps of her minstrels, when gayest they waken, 
Have tones 'mid their mirth like the wind over graves! 

Yet hadst thou thy vengeance -- yet came there the morrow, 
That shines out, at last, on the longest dark night, 
When the sceptre, that smote thee with slavery and sorrow, 
Was shiver'd at once, ...Read more of this...
by Moore, Thomas

The Rhyme of the Three Sealers

...r.
English they be and Japanee that hang on the Brown Bear's flank,
And some be Scot, but the worst of the lot, and the boldest thieves, be Yank!

It was the sealer Northern Light, to the Smoky Seas she bore,
With a stovepipe stuck from a starboard port and the Russian flag at her fore.
(Baltic, Stralsund, and Northern Light --
 oh! they were birds of a feather --
Slipping away to the Smoky Seas, three seal-thieves together!)
And at last she came to a sandy cove and the Balti...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

To the Queen

...'When to Banish her is the Strife, 
'Keeps her unexil'd in her Life; 
'Guarding her matchless Innocence
'From Storms of boldest Impudence; 
'In spight of all the Scoffs and Rage, 
'And Persecutions of the Age, 
'Owns Vertues Altar, feeds the Flame, 
'Adores her much-derided Name; 
'While impiously her hands they tie, 
'Loves her in her Captivity; 

'Like Perseus saves her, when she stands
'Expos'd to the Leviathans. 
'So did bright Lamps once live in Urns, 
'So Camphire in th...Read more of this...
by Killigrew, Anne

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