Famous Gabled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Beowulf (Old English)

...ight in many a land.
Not reckless of promise, the rings he dealt,
treasure at banquet: there towered the hall,
high, gabled wide, the hot surge waiting
of furious flame. {1b} Nor far was that day
when father and son-in-law stood in feud
for warfare and hatred that woke again. {1c}
With envy and anger an evil spirit
endured the dole in his dark abode,
that he heard each day the din of revel
high in the hall: there harps rang out,
clear song of the singer. He sang wh...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,


Pickthorn Manor

...ugh twisted cherry-trees The old house glowed, 
geranium-hued, with bricks
Bloomed in the sun like roses, low and long, Gabled, 
and with quaint tricks
Of chimneys carved and fretted. Out of these
Grey smoke was shaken, which the faint Spring breeze
Tossed into nothing. Then a thrush's 
song

XVII
Needled its way through sound of bees and river. The 
notes fell, round and starred, between young leaves,
Trilled to a spiral lilt, stopped on a quiver. The Lady Eunice 
listens an...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

The Ancestral Dwelling

...the discreet and tranquil Quaker dwellings,
With their demure brick faces and immaculate white-stone doorsteps;
And the gabled houses of the Dutch, with their high stoops and iron railings,
(I can see their little brass knobs shining in the morning sunlight);
And the solid houses of the descendants of the Puritans,
Fronting the street with their narrow doors and dormer-windows;
And the triple-galleried, many-pillared mansions of Charleston,
Standing sideways in their gardens ...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van

The Bells of Malines

...AUGUST 17, 1914 

The gabled roofs of old Malines
Are russet red and gray and green,
And o'er them in the sunset hour
Looms, dark and huge, St. Rombold's tower.
High in that rugged nest concealed,
The sweetest bells that ever pealed,
The deepest bells that ever rung,
The lightest bells that ever sung,
Are waiting for the master's hand
To fling their music o'er the land. 

And sha...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van

Zermatt to the Matterhorn

...irty-two years since, up against the sun, 
Seven shapes, thin atomies to lower sight, 
Labouringly leapt and gained thy gabled height, 
And four lives paid for what the seven had won. 

They were the first by whom the deed was done, 
And when I look at thee, my mind takes flight 
To that day's tragic feat of manly might, 
As though, till then, of history thou hadst none. 

Yet ages ere men topped thee, late and soon 
Thou watch'dst each night the planets lift and lower; 
Thou...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas


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