Famous Heralded Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Autumn

...Thou comest, Autumn, heralded by the rain,
With banners, by great gales incessant fanned,
Brighter than brightest silks of Samarcand,
And stately oxen harnessed to thy wain!
Thou standest, like imperial Charlemagne,
Upon thy bridge of gold; thy royal hand
Outstretched with benedictions o'er the land,
Blessing the farms through all thy vast domain!
Thy shield is the red harvest m...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth


Autumn

...Thou comest, Autumn, heralded by the rain,
With banners, by great gales incessant fanned,
Brighter than brightest silks of Samarcand,
And stately oxen harnessed to thy wain!
Thou standest, like imperial Charlemagne,
Upon thy bridge of gold; thy royal hand
Outstretched with benedictions o'er the land,
Blessing the farms through all thy vast domain!
Thy shield is the red harvest m...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Beowulf (Old English)

...Hygelac’s I,
kinsman and follower. Fame a plenty
have I gained in youth! These Grendel-deeds
I heard in my home-land heralded clear.
Seafarers say how stands this hall,
of buildings best, for your band of thanes
empty and idle, when evening sun
in the harbor of heaven is hidden away.
So my vassals advised me well, --
brave and wise, the best of men, --
O sovran Hrothgar, to seek thee here,
for my nerve and my might they knew full well.
Themselves had seen me from ...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Cliche Came Out of its Cage

...r of the House 
Spill from their tumblers a libation to the Erinyes, 
And Leavis with Lord Russell wreathed in flowers, heralded with flutes, 
Leading white bulls to the cathedral of the solemn Muses 
To pay where due the glory of their latest theorem. 
Hestia's fire in every flat, rekindled, burned before 
The Lardergods. Unmarried daughters with obedient hands 
Tended it By the hearth the white-armd venerable mother 
Domum servabat, lanam faciebat. at the hour 
Of sacrifice...Read more of this...
by Lewis, C S

Dinner in a Quick Lunch Room

...Soup should be heralded with a mellow horn, 
Blowing clear notes of gold against the stars; 
Strange entrees with a jangle of glass bars 
Fantastically alive with subtle scorn; 
Fish, by a plopping, gurgling rush of waters, 
Clear, vibrant waters, beautifully austere; 
Roast, with a thunder of drums to stun the ear, 
A screaming fife, a voice from ancient slaughters! 

Ove...Read more of this...
by Benet, Stephen Vincent


For K. J. Leaving and Coming Back

...k before either of us said
a compromising word acknowledging
what happened every night in the brass bed

and every bird-heralded blue morning
was something we could claim and keep and use;
was, like the house, a place where we could bring

our road-worn, weary selves.
Now, we've a pause
in a year we wouldn't have wagered on.
Dusk climbs the tiled roof opposite; the blue's

still sun-soaked; it's a week now since you've gone
to be a daughter in the capital.
(I came north with ...Read more of this...
by Hacker, Marilyn

Hiawatha And The Pearl-Feather

...thousand whistles, 
Answered over all the fen-lands, 
And the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, 
Far off on the reedy margin, 
Heralded the hero's coming.
Westward thus fared Hiawatha, 
Toward the realm of Megissogwon, 
Toward the land of the Pearl-Feather, 
Till the level moon stared at him 
In his face stared pale and haggard, 
Till the sun was hot behind him, 
Till it burned upon his shoulders, 
And before him on the upland 
He could see the Shining Wigwam
Of the Manito of Wampum...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Ode to the Northeast Wind

...
Through the snowstorm hurled, 
Drives our English hearts of oak 
Seaward round the world. 
Come, as came our fathers, 
Heralded by thee, 
Conquering from the eastward, 
Lords by land and sea. 
Come; and strong, within us 
Stir the Vikings' blood; 
Bracing brain and sinew; 
Blow, thou wind of God!...Read more of this...
by Kingsley, Charles

Percival Sharp

...den.
And an eye watching like one of the Arimaspi --
So did you -- with one eye.
And angels blowing trumpets -- you are heralded --
It is your horn and your angel and your family's estimate.
It is all very well, but for myself I know
I stirred certain vibrations in Spoon River
Which are my true epitaph, more lasting than stone....Read more of this...
by Masters, Edgar Lee

Saturdays Child

...ng for a rattle;
I cut my teeth as the black racoon--
For implements of battle.
Some are swaddled in silk and down,
And heralded by a star;
They swathed my limbs in a sackcloth gown
On a night that was black as tar.
For some, godfather and goddame
The opulent fairies be;
Dame Poverty gave me my name,
And Pain godfathered me.
For I was born on Saturday--
"Bad time for planting a seed,"
Was all my father had to say,
And, "One mouth more to feed."
Death cut the strings that gave...Read more of this...
by Cullen, Countee

The Best Cigarette

...There are many that I miss
having sent my last one out a car window
sparking along the road one night, years ago.

The heralded one, of course:
after sex, the two glowing tips
now the lights of a single ship;
at the end of a long dinner
with more wine to come
and a smoke ring coasting into the chandelier;
or on a white beach,
holding one with fingers still wet from a swim.

How bittersweet these punctuations
of flame and gesture;
but the best were on those mornings
when I wo...Read more of this...
by Collins, Billy

The Dead King

...ces;
His seas 'neath his keels when his war-castles foamed to their places;
The thundering foreshores that answered his heralded landing;
The huge lighted cities adoring, the assemblies upstanding;
The Councils of Kings called in haste to learn how he was minded --
The kingdoms, the Powers, and the Glories he dealt with unblinded.

To him came all captains of men, all achievers of glory
Hot from the press of their battles they told him their story.
They revealed him their liv...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Siege of Corinth

...y loosed; 
But in his pulse there was no throb, 
Nor on his lips one dying sob; 
Sigh, nor word, nor struggling breath 
Heralded his way to death: 
Ere his very thought could pray, 
Unanel'd he pass'd away, 
Without a hope from mercy's aid, — 
To the last — a Renegade. 

XXVIII. 

Fearfully the yell arose 
Of his followers, and his foes; 
These in joy, in fury those: 
Then again in conflict mixing, 
Clashing swords, and spears transfixing, 
Interchanged the blow and thrust, 
...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

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