Famous Carded Poems by Famous Poets

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

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North Haven

...
the new cones on the spruce. It is so still
the pale bay wears a milky skin; the sky
no clouds except for one long, carded horse1s tail.

The islands haven't shifted since last summer,
even if I like to pretend they have
--drifting, in a dreamy sort of way,
a little north, a little south, or sidewise,
and that they're free within the blue frontiers of bay.

This month, our favorite one is full of flowers:
Buttercups, Red Clover, Purple Vetch,
Hackweed still burn...Read more of this...
by Bishop, Elizabeth


The Ballad Of The Black Fox Skin

...acked it down to the death-still pits where the avalanche is hurled;
From the glooms to the sacerdotal snows, where the carded clouds are curled.

"From the vastitudes where the world protrudes through clouds like seas up-shoaled,
I held its track till it led me back to the land I had left of old--
The land I had looted many moons. I was weary and sick and cold.

"I was sick, soul-sick, of the futile chase, and there and then I swore
The foul fiend fox might scathless go, for...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Wreck of the Golfer

...on in the dread lagoon 
Fell down with a woeful splash. 

"Oh, Father, why do you beat the sand 
Till it flies like the carded wool?" 
And the father he answered never a word, 
For his heart was much too full. 

"Oh, Father, why are they shouting 'fore' 
And screaming so lustily?" 
But the father he answered never a word, 
A pallid corpse was he. 

For a well-swung drive on the back of his head 
Had landed and laid him low. 
Lord save us all from a fate like this 
When next t...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

The Wreck of the Hesperus

...whooping billow swept the crew
Like icicles from her deck.

She struck where the white and fleecy waves
Looked soft as carded wool,
But the cruel rocks, they gored her side
Like the horns of an angry bull.

Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice,
With the masts went by the board;
Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank,
Ho! ho! the breakers roared!

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
Lashed close to a drifti...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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