Famous Kern Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Kern poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous kern poems. These examples illustrate what a famous kern poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Scott, Sir Walter
...ry spark;
So fierce, so tameless, and so fleet,
Sore did he cumber our retreat,
And kept our stoutest kerns in awe,
Even at the pass of Beal 'maha.
But steep and flinty was the road,
And sharp the hurrying pikeman's goad,
And when we came to Dennan's Row
A child might scathless stroke his brow.'
V.
Norman.
'That bull was slain; his reeking hide
They stretched the cataract beside,
Whose waters th...Read more of this...
by
Lanier, Sidney
...fast."
Cried Maclean: "Now a ten-tined buck in the sight of the wife and the child
I had killed if the gluttonous kern had not wrought me a snail's own wrong!"
Then he sounded, and down came kinsmen and clansmen all:
"Ten blows, for ten tine, on his back let fall,
And reckon no stroke if the blood follow not at the bite of thong!"
So Hamish made bare, and took him his strokes; at the last he smiled.
"Now I'll to the burn," quoth Maclean, "for it still may be,
If a ...Read more of this...
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