Famous Greenland Poems by Famous Poets

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

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538. Song—Now Spring has clad the grove in green

by Robert Burns
 NOW spring has clad the grove in green,
 And strew’d the lea wi’ flowers;
The furrow’d, waving corn is seen
 Rejoice in fostering showers.
While ilka thing in nature join
 Their sorrows to forego,
O why thus all alone are mine
 The weary steps o’ woe!


The trout in yonder wimpling burn
 That glides, a silver dart,
And, safe beneath the shady thorn,
 Defies...Read more of this...

Greenlands Icy Mountains

by William Topaz McGonagall
 Greenland's icy mountains are fascinating and grand,
And wondrously created by the Almighty's command;
And the works of the Almighty there's few can understand:
Who knows but it might be a part of Fairyland? 

Because there are churches of ice, and houses glittering like glass,
And for scenic grandeur there's nothing can it surpass,
Besides there's monuments and spires, also ruins,
Which serve for a...Read more of this...

Annie Marshall the Foundling

by William Topaz McGonagall
 Annie Marshall was a foundling, and lived in Downderry,
And was trained up by a coast-guardsman, kind-hearted and merry
And he loved Annie Marshall as dear as his life,
And he resolved to make her his own loving wife. 

The night was tempestuous, most terrific, and pitch dark,
When Matthew Pengelly rescued Annie Marshall from an ill-fated barque,
But her parents were engulfed in...Read more of this...

The Wreck of the Barque Wm. Paterson of Liverpool

by William Topaz McGonagall
 Ye landsmen all attend my verse, and I'll tell to ye a tale
Concerning the barque "Wm. Paterson" that was lost in a tempestuous gale;
She was on a voyage from Bangkok to the Clyde with a cargo of Teakwood,
And the crew numbered Fifteen in all of seamen firm and good. 

'Twas on the 11th of March, when a violent gale...Read more of this...

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