Famous Jaunting Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Jaunting poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous jaunting poems. These examples illustrate what a famous jaunting poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...houlders, the ivory of a laugh, the bells of song.
Railroad brakemen taking trains across Nebraska prairies, lumbermen jaunting in pine and tamarack of the Northwest, stock ranchers in the middle west, mayors of southern cities
Say to their pals and wives now: I see by the papers Anna Held is dead....Read more of this...
by
Sandburg, Carl
...
Words I try to heal you.
Father, hear me; in your eyes I saw a gleam,
A glint, the shadow of a splint of light,
The jaunting-cart as a boy
You had a lift to school in.
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My dream of Lincoln Cathedral,
The stone effigy of a knight in repose
With the words upon his tomb:
“Come here and you will discover
The secrets of your ancestry”
But still I did not go, nor to the
Dairy in Northampton where they
Washed the floors in milk each
Afternoon in the cool silen...Read more of this...
by
Tebb, Barry
...
Much too solemn seemed;
Because of what he had dreamed,
Or the ambitions that he served,
Much too solemn and reserved.
Jaunting, journeying
To his own dayspring,
He unpacks the loaded pern
Of all 'twas pain or joy to learn,
Of all that he had made.
The outrageous war shall fade;
At some old winding whitethorn root
He'll practise on the shepherd's flute,
Or on the close-cropped grass
Court his shepherd lass,
Or put his heart into some game
Till daytime, playtime seem the same...Read more of this...
by
Yeats, William Butler
...foundering, thundering all-surfy seas in; seen
?nderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.
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Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling...Read more of this...
by
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
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