Famous Forded Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

...hrong:
The river which had done them all the wrong,
Whate'er that was, rolled by, deterred no whit.

Which, while I forded, - good saints, how I feared
To set my foot upon a dead man's cheek,
Each step, or feel the spear I thrust to seek
For hollows, tangled in his hair or beard!
- It may have been a water-rat I speared,
But, ugh! it sounded like a baby's shriek.

Glad was I when I reached the other bank.
Now for a better country. Vain presage!
Who were the strug...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


Guenevere

...would run from me, and yet am I
No different from the queen they used to love.
If water, flowing silver over stones,
Is forded, and beneath the horses' feet
Grows turbid suddenly, it clears again,
And men will drink it with no thought of harm.
Yet I am branded for a single fault.

I was the flower amid a toiling world,
Where people smiled to see one happy thing,
And they were proud and glad to raise me high;
They only asked that I should be right fair,
A little kind, and gown...Read more of this...
by Teasdale, Sara

The Marriage Of Geraint

...ing of her love 
For Lancelot, and forgetful of the hunt; 
But rose at last, a single maiden with her, 
Took horse, and forded Usk, and gained the wood; 
There, on a little knoll beside it, stayed 
Waiting to hear the hounds; but heard instead 
A sudden sound of hoofs, for Prince Geraint, 
Late also, wearing neither hunting-dress 
Nor weapon, save a golden-hilted brand, 
Came quickly flashing through the shallow ford 
Behind them, and so galloped up the knoll. 
A purple scarf...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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