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Famous Hardier Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...hind is all in vain, 
And all in vain to look to left or right, 
Why face we not our future once again, 
Launching with hardier hearts across the main, 
Straining dim eyes to catch the invisible sight, 
And strong to bear ourselves in patient pain? 

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Star Sirius and the Pole Star dwell afar 
Beyond the drawings each of other’s strength: 
One blazes through the brief bright summer’s length 
Lavishing life-heat from a flaming car; 
While one unchangeable upon a throne 
Brood...Read more of this...
by Rossetti, Christina



...t in all his terrors; his bow was extended,
And the bolt, fixed on the string, steadily aimed at the heart.
"What still hardier action, unhappy one, dost thou now venture,
Thus to descend to the grave of the departed souls here?"--
"'Tis to see Tiresias I come, to ask of the prophet
Where I the buskin of old, that now has vanished, may find?"
"If they believe not in Nature, nor the old Grecian, but vainly
Wilt thou convey up from hence that dramaturgy to them."
"Oh, as for Na...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von
...e old and weak,
     The timorous fly, the women shriek;
     With flint, with shaft, with staff, with bar,
     The hardier urge tumultuous war.
     At once round Douglas darkly sweep
     The royal spears in circle deep,
     And slowly scale the pathway steep,
     While on the rear in thunder pour
     The rabble with disordered roar
     With grief the noble Douglas saw
     The Commons rise against the law,
     And to the leading soldier said:
     'Sir Jo...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

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