Famous Foray Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Beowulf (Modern English)

...a mortal ache unto his people,
to all noblemen. Likewise many a wise men
had mourned in earlier seasons over his rash forays—
they had looked to him as comfort for their afflictions,
that the son of their prince ought to prosper,
take up his patrimony, keep watch over the people,
their treasures, and their sheltering city,
the realm of heroes, where the Scyldings roam.
He become more endearing to all his allies,
to the kindred of men, that was the kinsman of Hygelac—...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,


Coronach

...flower was in flushing,
When blighting was nearest.

Fleet foot on the corrie,
Sage counsel in cumber,
Red hand in the foray,
How sound is thy slumber!
Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou art gone, and for ever!...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

Geraint And Enid

...like a man. 

But at the point of noon the huge Earl Doorm, 
Broad-faced with under-fringe of russet beard, 
Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey, 
Came riding with a hundred lances up; 
But ere he came, like one that hails a ship, 
Cried out with a big voice, 'What, is he dead?' 
'No, no, not dead!' she answered in all haste. 
'Would some of your people take him up, 
And bear him hence out of this cruel sun? 
Most sure am I, quite sure, he is not dead.' 

Then said Earl Do...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

In the Old Age of the Soul

...d helmet
Brings momentary life and long-fled cunning,
So to my soul grown old - 
Grown old with many a jousting, many a foray, 
Grown old with namy a hither-coming and hence-going - 
Till now they send him dreams and no more deed;
So doth he flame again with might for action,
Forgetful of the council of elders,
Forgetful that who rules doth no more battle,
Forgetful that such might no more cleaves to him
So doth he flame again toward valiant doing....Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra

Men Of The High North

...ere is the pain of it?
 Lost in the limbo of things you've forgot;
Only remain the guerdon and gain of it;
 Zest of the foray, and God, how you fought!

You who have made good, you foreign faring;
 You money magic to far lands has whirled;
Can you forget those days of vast daring,
 There with your soul on the Top o' the World?
Nights when no peril could keep you awake on
 Spruce boughs you spread for your couch in the snow;
Taste all your feasts like the beans and the bacon
 ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Sohrab and Rustum

...d him like a faithful hound at heel--
Ruksh, whose renown was noised through all the earth,
The horse, whom Rustum on a foray once
Did in Bokhara by the river find
A colt beneath its dam, and drove him home,
And rear'd him; a bright bay, with lofty crest,
Dight with a saddle-cloth of broider'd green
Crusted with gold, and on the ground were work'd
All beasts of chase, all beasts which hunters know.
So follow'd, Rustum left his tents, and cross'd
The camp, and to the Persian h...Read more of this...
by Arnold, Matthew

The Lady of the Lake

...lan-Alpine's pride,
     The terror of Loch Lomond's side,
     Would, at my suit, thou know'st, delay
     A Lennox foray—for a day.'—
     XII..

     The ancient bard her glee repressed:
     'Ill hast thou chosen theme for jest!
     For who, through all this western wild,
     Named Black Sir Roderick e'er, and smiled?
     In Holy-Rood a knight he slew;
     I saw, when back the dirk he drew,
     Courtiers give place before the stride
     Of the undaunted...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Wanderings of Oisin: Book III

...the midst of the air,
A starling like them that forgathered 'neath a moon waking white as a shell
When the Fenians made foray at morning with Bran, Sceolan, Lomair.

I awoke: the strange horse without summons out of the distance ran,
Thrusting his nose to my shoulder; he knew in his bosom deep
That once more moved in my bosom the ancient sadness of man,
And that I would leave the Immortals, their dimness, their dews dropping sleep.

O, had you seen beautiful Niamh grow white ...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler

We Two Boys Together Clinging

...urf or the
 sea-beach
 dancing, 
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness chasing, 
Fulfilling our foray....Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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