Famous Courier Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Courier poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous courier poems. These examples illustrate what a famous courier poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...every pirate lies."
Then this did the noble lady say:
"Bird, do you dream of our home-coming day
When you flew like a courier on before
From the dragon-peak to our palace-door,
And we drove the steed in your singing path—
The ramping dragon of laughter and wrath:
And found our city all aglow,
And knighted this joss that decked it so?
There were golden fishes in the purple river
And silver fishes and rainbow fishes.
There were golden junks in the laughing river,
And silver j...Read more of this...
by
Lindsay, Vachel
...inkered light from overhead
And with a penknife improvises plans
For our departure. Plans delivered by
An old staff courier on his bicycle.
One looks at him and wonders does he say,
I lean out and I let my shadow fall
Shouldering the picture that we call the world
And there is darkness? Does he say such things?
Or is there merely silence in his head?
Or other voices which the silence rings?
Such a fine skull and forehead, broad and flat,
The eyes opaque and slig...Read more of this...
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Levine, Philip
...eople, and while they passed
The wondrous bantling round about,
Was first to start at the outside blast
As the Kaiser's courier blew his horn
Just a month after the babe was born.
``And,'' quoth the Kaiser's courier, ``since
``The Duke has got an heir, our Prince
``Needs the Duke's self at his side: ''
The Duke looked down and seemed to wince,
But he thought of wars o'er the world wide,
Castles a-fire, men on their march,
The toppling tower, the crashing arch;
And up he looke...Read more of this...
by
Browning, Robert
...in hospitality.
In talk and sport they whiled away
The morning of that summer day;
But at high noon a courier light
Held secret parley with the knight,
Whose moody aspect soon declared
That evil were the news he heard.
Deep thought seemed toiling in his head;
Yet was the evening banquet made
Ere he assembled round the flame
His mother, Douglas, and the Graeme,
And Ellen too; then cast around
His eyes, the...Read more of this...
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Scott, Sir Walter
...re to love and live[Pg 403]The wingèd courier then no more shall claimThe power to sink or raise the notes of Fame,Or give its glories to the noontide ray:True merit then, in everlasting day,Shall shine for ever, as at first it shoneAt once to God and man and angels known.Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...t career could match his speed,That seem'd the power of fancy to exceed.The courier of the sky I mark'd with dread,As by degrees the baseless fabric fledThat human power had built, while high disdainI felt within to see the toiling trainStriving to seize each transitory thingThat fleets away on dissolution's wing;Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
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