Famous Champ Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Lay Made About the Year Of The City CCCLX

...VI

     Tall are the oaks whose acorns
          Drop in dark Auser's rill;
     Fat are the stags that champ the boughs
          Of the Ciminian hill;
     Beyond all streams Clitumnus
          Is to the herdsman dear;
     Best of all pools the fowler loves
          The great Volsinian mere.

               VII

     But now no stroke of woodman
          Is heard by Auser's rill;
     No hunter tracks the stag's green path
          Up the Ci...Read more of this...
by Horace,


A Memory At Sixty

...he shining brass of harness hangs in bar-rooms or droops

From imitation beams.



Gelded stallions no longer chomp and champ

In stalls beneath the slats of shadowed lofts with straw-bales

And hay-ricks as high as houses lazing in lantern light.

The ashes of the carts they pulled have smouldered into silence,

The clatter over cobbles of iron shoes and shouts of “Whoa, lass!”

Hushed in this last weariness....Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

Olympic Granny

...
To slake the summer heat.
On BMX and mountain bike
She simply can’t be beat.
She’s highest in the high jump,
And a champ at hammer throwing,
Magnificent in marathons,
Remarkable at rowing.
She beats the best at boxing.
At the pole vault she is peerless.
Her fencing is the finest;
She is positively fearless.
She’s masterful at basketball,
She truly rules the court,
And equally incredible
At every other sport.
But what we find astonishing
And something of a sho...Read more of this...
by Nesbitt, Kenn

Teeth And Gums

...Thirty white horses upon a red hill,Now they tramp, now they champ, now they stand still....Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother

The Chanpa Flower

...ch you at your work.
When after your bath, with wet hair spread on your shoulders,
you walked through the shadow of the champ tree to the little court
where you say your prayers, you would notice the scent of the
flower, but not know that it cane from me.
When after the midday meal you sat at the window reading
ramayana, and the tree's shadow fell over your hair and your lap,
I should fling my wee little shadow on to the page of your book,
just where you were reading.
But wou...Read more of this...
by Tagore, Rabindranath


The Forsaken Merman

...call from the bay,
Now the great winds shoreward blow,
Now the salt tides seaward flow;
Now the wild white horses play,
Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
Children dear, let us away!
This way, this way!

Call her once before you go— 
Call once yet!
In a voice that she will know:
'Margaret! Margaret!'
Children's voices should be dear
(Call once more) to a mother's ear;
Children's voices, wild with pain— 
Surely she will come again!
Call her once and come away;
This way, th...Read more of this...
by Arnold, Matthew

The Loss Of The Eurydice

...cus Hare, high her captain,
Kept to her—care-drowned and wrapped in
 Cheer's death, would follow
His charge through the champ-white water-in-a-wallow, 

 13

All under Channel to bury in a beach her
Cheeks: Right, rude of feature,
 He thought he heard say
'Her commander! and thou too, and thou this way.' 

 14

It is even seen, time's something server,
In mankind's medley a duty-swerver,
 At downright 'No or yes?'
Doffs all, drives full for righteousness. 

 15

Sydney Fletch...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon

...re pale,
and dawn was in the air.

Then the ostler said to his tipsy cat:
'The white horses of the Moon,
They neigh and champ their silver bits;
But their master's been and drowned his wits,
and the Sun'll be rising soon!'

So the cat on the fiddle played hey-diddle-diddle,
a jig that would wake the dead:
He squeaked and sawed and quickened the tune,
While the landlord shook the Man in the Moon:
'It's after three!' he said.

They rolled the Man slowly up the hill
and bundled ...Read more of this...
by Tolkien, J R R

The Siege of Corinth

...steeds are all bridled, and snort to the rein; 
Curved is each neck, and flowing each main; 
White is the foam of their champ on the bit: 
The spears are uplifted; the matches are lit; 
The cannon are pointed, and ready to roar, 
And crush the wall they have crumbled before: 
Forms in his phalanx each Janizar; 
Alp at their head; his right arm is bare, 
So is the blade of his scimitar; 
The khan and the pachas are all at their post: 
The vizier himself at the head of the host...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The Vision of Judgment

...t 
In either's eye, as if 'twere less their will 
Than destiny to make the eternal years 
Their date of war, and their 'champ clos' the spheres. 

XXXIII 

But here they were in neutral space: we know 
From Job, that Satan hath the power to pay 
A heavenly visit thrice a year or so; 
And that the 'sons of God', like those of clay, 
Must keep him company; and we might show 
From the same book, in how polite a way 
The dialogue is held between the Powers 
Of Good and Evil — but...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

This is the legend of Cassius Clay

..., and brags indeed-y,
Of a muscular punch that's incredibly speed-y.
The fistic world was dull and weary,
but with a champ like Liston, things had to be dreary.
Then someone with color and someone with dash, 
brought fight fans are runnin' with Cash.
This brash young boxer is something to see 
and the heavyweight championship is his destiny.
This kid's got a left, this kid's got a right, 
if he hit you once, you're asleep for the night. 

This is the legend of Muha...Read more of this...
by Ali, Muhammad

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