Famous Floundered Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Fit the Seventh ( Hunting of the Snark )

...in. 

Without rest or pause--while those frumious jaws
Went savagely snapping around--
He skipped and he hopped, and he floundered and flopped, 
Till fainting he fell to the ground. 

The Bandersnatch fled as the others appeared
Led on by that fear-stricken yell: 
And the Bellman remarked "It is just as I feared!" 
And solemnly tolled on his bell. 

He was black in the face, and they scarcely could trace
The least likeness to what he had been: 
While so great was the fright t...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis


Haunted

..., 
And freedom was his need; his throat was choking. 
Barbed brambles gripped and clawed him round his legs, 
And he floundered over snags and hidden stumps. 
Mumbling: ¡®I will get out! I must get out!¡¯ 30 
Butting and thrusting up the baffling gloom, 
Pausing to listen in a space ¡¯twixt thorns, 
He peers around with peering, frantic eyes. 

An evil creature in the twilight looping, 
Flapped blindly in his face. Beating it off, 35 
He screeched in terror, and st...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

James Simmons R.i.p

...attack

But gave the devils their due:

The ‘Honest Ulsterman’ you founded

Lost its honesty the day you withdrew

But floundered on, publicly sighed and

Ungraciously expired as soon as you died.



You went with fallen women, smoked and sang and boozed,

Loved your many children, wrote poetry

As good as Yeats but the ignominy you had to bear

Bred an immortality impossible to share.

You showed us your own peccadilloes,

Your early lust for fame, but you learned

The cost...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

The Coastwise Lights

...Six oceans had their will of us
 To carry all away --
Our galley's in the Baltic,
 And our boom's in Mossel Bay!

We've floundered off the Texel,
 Awash with sodden deals,
We've slipped from Valparaiso
 With the Norther at our heels:
We've ratched beyond the Crossets
 That tusk the Southern Pole,
And dipped our gunnels under
 To the dread Agulhas roll.

Beyond all outer charting
 We sailed where none have sailed,
And saw the land-lights burning
 On islands none have hailed;
O...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Hunting Of The Snark

...in.

Without rest or pause--while those frumious jaws
 Went savagely snapping around--
He skipped and he hopped, and he floundered and flopped,
 Till fainting he fell to the ground.

The Bandersnatch fled as the others appeared
 Led on by that fear-stricken yell:
And the Bellman remarked "It is just as I feared!"
 And solemnly tolled on his bell.

He was black in the face, and they scarcely could trace
 The least likeness to what he had been:
While so great was his fright tha...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis


The Merchantmen

...x oceans had their will of us
 To carry all away --
 Our galley's in the Baltic,
 And our boom's in Mossel Bay.

 We've floundered off the Texel,
 Awash with sodden deals,
 We've shipped from Valparaiso
 With the Norther at our heels:
 We're ratched beyond the Crossets
 That tusk the Southern Pole,
 And dipped our gunnels under
 To the dread Agulhas roll.

 Beyond all outer charting
 We sailed where none have sailed,
 And saw the land-lights burning
 On islands none have hail...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

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