Famous Buttress Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Absalom And Achitophel

...isturb a state;
But innovation is the blow of fate.
If ancient fabrics nod, and threat to fall,
To patch the flaws, and buttress up the wall,
Thus far 'tis duty; but here fix the mark:
For all beyond it is to touch our Ark.
To change foundations, cast the frame anew,
Is work for rebels who base ends pursue:
At once divine and human laws control;
And mend the parts by ruin of the whole.
The tamp'ring world is subject to this curse,
To physic their disease into a worse.

Now wh...Read more of this...
by Dryden, John


Canto I

...eech:
"Ill fate and abundant wine. I slept in Crice's ingle.
"Going down the long ladder unguarded,
"I fell against the buttress,
"Shattered the nape-nerve, the soul sought Avernus.
"But thou, O King, I bid remember me, unwept, unburied,
"Heap up mine arms, be tomb by sea-bord, and inscribed:
"A man of no fortune, and with a name to come.
"And set my oar up, that I swung mid fellows."

And Anticlea came, whom I beat off, and then Tiresias Theban,
Holding his golden wand, knew...Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra

Moonlight

...attered crags,
And black and silver all the coast
Marshalls its hunched and rocky host,
And headlands striding sombrely
Buttress the land against the sea,
-- The darkened land, the brightening wave --
And moonlight slants through Merlin's cave....Read more of this...
by Sackville-West, Vita

Rosabelle

...r 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 th...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

Saul

...e vaunt
As the beauty, the pride of our dwelling.---And then, the great march
Wherein man runs to man to assist him and buttress an arch
Nought can break; who shall harm them, our friends?---Then, the chorus intoned
As the Levites go up to the altar in glory enthroned.
But I stopped here: for here in the darkness Saul groaned.

VIII.

And I paused, held my breath in such silence, and listened apart;
And the tent shook, for mighty Saul shuddered: and sparkles 'gan dart
From th...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


The Assault Heroic

..., 
Dumbstricken and confounded, 
Gaping in a long row; 
They dared not thrust nor throw. 
Thus, then, I climbed a steep
Buttress and won the keep, 
And laughed and proudly blew 
My horn, “Stand to! Stand to! 
Wake up, sir! Here’s a new 
Attack! Stand to! Stand to!”...Read more of this...
by Graves, Robert

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