Famous Hemming Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Hemming poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous hemming poems. These examples illustrate what a famous hemming poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...is here in the room, in my arm,
His limp body hangs on the spin
Of the waltz we are dancing, a swarm
Of blood-drops is hemming us in!
Round and round! One! Two! Three! And
his sin
Is red like his tongue lolling warm.
One! Two! Three! And the drums
are his knell.
He is heavy, his feet beat the floor
As I drag him about in the swell
Of the waltz. With a menacing roar,
The trumpets crash in through the door.
One! Two! Three! clangs his funeral bell.
One! Two! Three! In the ch...Read more of this...
by
Lowell, Amy
...e peace-weaver should seek after the lives
of beloved men through an invented grudge. (ll. 1931b-44)
The kinsman of Hemming, however, put a stop to that—
as ale-drinkers spoke the second part—
that she performed less harm to the people,
fewer evil designs, after she was given first,
adorned with gold, to the young champion,
to her noble beloved, since she sought a journey
to the hall of Offa, over the fallow waves,
by her father’s plan. There she enjoyed,
while sh...Read more of this...
by
Anonymous,
...of Lindenau.
"Hard by, in the City, the One, care-crossed,
Gloomed over his shrunken power;
And without the walls the hemming host
Waxed denser every hour.
"He had speech that night on the morrow's designs
With his chiefs by the bivouac fire,
While the belt of flames from the enemy's lines
Flared nigher him yet and nigher.
"Three sky-lights then from the girdling trine
Told, 'Ready!' As they rose
Their flashes seemed his Judgment-Sign
For bleeding Europe's woes.
"'Twas s...Read more of this...
by
Hardy, Thomas
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