Famous Chancing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Andrea del Sarto

...ted here,
Poor this long while, despised, to speak the truth.
I dared not, do you know, leave home all day,
For fear of chancing on the Paris lords.
The best is when they pass and look aside;
But they speak sometimes; I must bear it all.
Well may they speak! That Francis, that first time,
And that long festal year at Fontainebleau!
I surely then could sometimes leave the ground,
Put on the glory, Rafael's daily wear,
In that humane great monarch's golden look,--
One finger in...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


Sonnet Suggested By Homer Chaucer Shakespeare Edgar Allan Poe Paul Vakzy James Joyce Et Al

...e than it is knows itself to be by the authority
 of any ministry of love.

O no -- it is the choice of chances and the chancing of 
 all choice -- the wine
which was the water may be sickening, unsatisfying or
 sour
A new barbiturate drawn from the fattest flower
That prospers green on Lethe's shore. For every hour
Denies or once again affirms the vow and the ultimate 
 tower
Of aspiration which made Ulysses toil so far away from
 home
And then, for years, strive against eve...Read more of this...
by Schwartz, Delmore

Taking His Chance

...k of the rifles was heard in the rocks! 
A shriek and a shout, and a rush of pale men -- 
And there lay the bushranger, chancing it then. 

The sergeant dismounted and knelt on the sod -- 
`Your bushranging's over -- make peace, Jack, with God!' 
The bushranger laughed -- not a word he replied, 
But turned to the girl who knelt down by his side. 
He gazed in her eyes as she lifted his head: 
`Just kiss me -- my girl -- and -- I'll -- chance it,' he said....Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

Tarantella

...r at the doors and the din?
And the hip! hop! hap!
Of the clap
Of the hands to the swirl and the twirl
Of the girl gone chancing,
Glancing,
Dancing,
Backing and advancing,
Snapping of the clapper to the spin
Out and in--
And the ting, tong, tang of the guitar!
Do you remember an Inn,
Miranda?
Do you remember an Inn?

Never more;
Miranda,
Never more.
Only the high peaks hoar;
And Aragon a torrent at the door.
No sound
In the walls of the halls where falls
The tread
Of the feet...Read more of this...
by Belloc, Hilaire

When Your Pants Begin to Go

...easured by the tailor when our pants begin to go. 

...... 

Now the lady of refinement, in the lap of comfort rocked, 
Chancing on these rugged verses, will pretend that she is shocked. 
Leave her to her smelling-bottle; 'tis the wealthy who decide 
That the world should hide its patches 'neath the cruel look of pride; 
And I think there's something noble, and I swear there's nothing low, 
In the pride of Human Nature when its pants begin to go....Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry


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