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Famous Flints Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
...ller, take the road
Singing beside the hedge. What if the bread
Be bitter in thine inn, and thou unshod
To meet the flints ? At least it may be said
' Because the way is short, I thank thee, God. '...Read more of this...



by Byron, George (Lord)
...s oak,
Felt if his arms in order good
The long day's march had well withstood -
If still the powder filled the pan,
And flints unloosened kept their lock -
His sabre's hilt and scabbard felt,
And whether they had chafed his belt;
And next the venerable man,
From out his haversack and can,
Prepared and spread his slender stock 
And to the monarch and his men 
The whole or portion offered then
With far less of inquietude
Than courtiers at a banquet would.
And Charles of thi...Read more of this...

by Watts, Isaac
...ere;
Tremble, thou earth, adore and fear.

He thunders, and all nature mourns;
The rock to standing pools he turns;
Flints spring with fountains at his word,
And fires and seas confess the Lord....Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...little crystal arches low 
Down from the central fountain's flow 
Fall'n silver-chiming, seemed to shake 
The sparkling flints beneath the prow. 
A goodly place, a goodly time, 
For it was in the golden prime 
Of good Haroun Alraschid. 

Above thro' many a bowery turn 
A walk with vary-colour'd shells 
Wander'd engrain'd. On either side 
All round about the fragrant marge 
From fluted vase, and brazen urn 
In order, eastern flowers large, 
Some dropping low their ...Read more of this...

by Hugo, Victor
...unremitting toil, 
 Sour, scanty bread and fevered water from the ungrateful soil; 
 Made harder by their gloom than flints that gash their harried hands, 
 And harder in the things they call their hearts than wolfish bands, 
 Perpetuating faults, inventing crimes for paltry ends, 
 And yet, perversest beings! hating Death, their best of friends! 
 Pride in the powerful no more, no less than in the poor; 
 Hatred in both their bosoms; love in one, or, wondrous! two! 
...Read more of this...



by Hardy, Thomas
...rs:--
I've my knapsack, firelock, spatters,
Crossbelts, priming-horn, stock, bay'net, blackball, clay,
Pouch, magazine, flints, flint-box that at every quick-step clatters;
...My heart, Dear; that must stay!"

--With breathings broken
Farewell was kissed unspoken,
And they parted there as morning stroked the panes;
And the Volunteer went on, and turned, and twirled his glove for
token,
And took the coastward lanes.

When above He'th Hills he found him,
He saw,...Read more of this...

by Jeffers, Robinson
...treasure, the tower, the fortress;
Referred to that one may live anything;
The temple and the tower: poor dancer on the flints
 and shards in the temple porches, turn home....Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily
...We met as Sparks -- Diverging Flints
Sent various -- scattered ways --
We parted as the Central Flint
Were cloven with an Adze --
Subsisting on the Light We bore
Before We felt the Dark --
A Flint unto this Day -- perhaps --
But for that single Spark....Read more of this...

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