Famous Lade Poems by Famous Poets

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

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319. Lament for James Earl of Glencairn

...rting beam
Look’d on the fading yellow woods,
 That wav’d o’er Lugar’s winding stream:
Beneath a craigy steep, a Bard,
 Laden with years and meikle pain,
In loud lament bewail’d his lord,
 Whom Death had all untimely ta’en.


He lean’d him to an ancient aik,
 Whose trunk was mould’ring down with years;
His locks were bleached white with time,
 His hoary cheek was wet wi’ tears!
And as he touch’d his trembling harp,
 And as he tun’d his doleful sang,
The winds, lamenting thro’...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


337. Song—Fragment—Altho' he has left me

...ALTHO’ he has left me for greed o’ the siller,
 I dinna envy him the gains he can win;
I rather wad bear a’ the lade o’ my sorrow,
 Than ever hae acted sae faithless to him....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

The Loss Of The Eurydice

...id she pride her, freighted fully, on
Bounden bales or a hoard of bullion?—
 Precious passing measure,
Lads and men her lade and treasure. 

 4

She had come from a cruise, training seamen—
Men, boldboys soon to be men:
 Must it, worst weather,
Blast bole and bloom together? 

 5

No Atlantic squall overwrought her
Or rearing billow of the Biscay water:
 Home was hard at hand
And the blow bore from land. 

 6

And you were a liar, O blue March day.
Bright sun lanced fire in t...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

The starry aspects are not all benign;

...The starry aspects are not all benign;
Why toil then after vain desires, and pine
To lade thyself with load of fortune's boons,
Only to drop it with this life of thine?...Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

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