Famous Fibrous Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Hiawathas Sailing

...
Like two bows he formed and shaped them, 
Like two bended bows together.
"Give me of your roots, O Tamarack! 
Of your fibrous roots, O Larch-tree! 
My canoe to bind together, 
So to bind the ends together 
That the water may not enter, 
That the river may not wet me!"
And the Larch, with all its fibres, 
Shivered in the air of morning, 
Touched his forehead with its tassels, 
Slid, with one long sigh of sorrow. 
"Take them all, O Hiawatha!"
From the earth he tore the fibres...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


Lincoln

...tly when all seemed lost, 
Many bitter winters of defeat; 

Down to the granite of patience 
These roots swept, knotted fibrous roots, prying, piercing, seeking, 
And drew from the living rock and the living waters about it 
The red sap to carry upwards to the sun. 

Not proud, but humble, 
Only to serve and pass on, to endure to the end through service; 
For the ax is laid at the roots of the trees, and all that bring not forth 
 good fruit 
Shall be cut down on the day to c...Read more of this...
by Fletcher, John Gould

On The Hurricane

...Royal Ship he stood the planted Mast; 
And shou'd again his Length of Timber rear, 
And new engrafted Branches wear 
Of fibrous Cordage and impending Shrouds, 
Still trimm'd with human Care, and water'd by the Clouds. 
But oh, you Trees! who solitary stood; 
Or you, whose Numbers form'd a Wood; 
You, who on Mountains chose to rise, 
And drew them nearer to the Skies; 
Or you, whom Valleys late did hold 
In flexible and lighter Mould; 
You num'rous Brethren of the Leafy Kind, ...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill

The Book of Thel

...n bar: 
4.2 Thel enter'd in and saw the secrets of the land unknown.
4.3 She saw the couches of the dead, and where the fibrous roots
4.4 Of every heart on earth infixes deep its restless twists:
4.5 A land of sorrows and of tears where never smile was seen. 

4.6 She wander'd in the land of clouds thro' valleys dark, list'ning
4.7 Dolours and lamentations; waiting oft beside a dewy grave
4.8 She stood in silence, list'ning to the voices of the ground,
4.9 Till to her own gra...Read more of this...
by Blake, William

The Flight Of The Duchess

...ed mulberry;
And that other sort, their crowning pride,
With long white threads distinct inside,
Like the lake-flower's fibrous roots which dangle
Loose such a length and never tangle,
Where the bold sword-lily cuts the clear waters,
And the cup-lily couches with all the white daughters:
Such are the works they put their hand to,
The uses they turn and twist iron and sand to.
And these made the troop, which our Duke saw sally
Toward his castle from out of the valley,
Men and ...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


The Wanderings of Oisin: Book III

...o from His dew-cumbered skies;
So long were they sleeping, the owls had builded their nests in their locks,
Filling the fibrous dimness with long generations of eyes.

And over the limbs and the valley the slow owls wandered and came,
Now in a place of star-fire, and now in a shadow-place wide;
And the chief of the huge white creatures, his knees in the soft star-flame,
Lay loose in a place of shadow: we drew the reins by his side.

Golden the nails of his bird-clawS, flung l...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler

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