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Famous Flanking Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Reeser, Jennifer
...We’re through, we’re through, we’re through, we’re through, we’re through
and – flanking, now, the edges of our schism –
it seems your coldness and my idealism
alone for all this time have kept us true.

Credulous I and hedonistic you:
opposed, refracting angles of a prism
who challenged sense with childish skepticism –
and every known the bulk of mankind knew....Read more of this...



by Melville, Herman
...en who ply through traceries high
Of turreted marbles show - 
So dwindle these to eyes below.
But fronting shot and flanking shell
Sliver and rive the inwoven ways;
High tops of oaks and high hearts fall,
But never the climbing stays.

Near and more near; till now the flags
Run like a catching flame;
And one flares highest, to peril nighest - 
He means to make a name:
Salvos! they give him his fame.
The staff is caught, and next the rush,
And then the leap where d...Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...way.

Subadar Prag Tewarri,
 Bidding them load with ball,
Halted a dozen rifles
 Under the village wall;
Sent out a flanking-party
 With Jemadar Hira Lal.

The men of the First Shikaris
 Shouted and smote and slew,
Turning the grinning jingal
 On to the howling crew.
The Jemadar's flanking-party
 Butchered the folk who flew.

Long was the morn of slaughter,
 Long was the list of slain,
Five score heads were taken,
 Five score heads and twain;
And the men of th...Read more of this...

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