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Famous Leal Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...d faith I’m gay and hearty!
To tell the truth and shame the deil,
 I am as fou as Bartie:
But Foorsday, sir, my promise leal,
 Expect me o’ your partie,
If on a beastie I can speel,
 Or hurl in a cartie.
YOURS,ROBERT BURNS.MAUCHLIN, Monday night, 10 o’clock....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...al youth
 Will gie to Polly Stewart,
 O lovely Polly Stewart, &c.


May he whase arms shall fauld thy charms
 Possess a leal and true heart!
To him be given to ken the heaven
 He grasps in Polly Stewart!
 O lovely Polly Stewart, &c....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert
...laird was a widdifu’, bleerit knurl;
She’s left the gude fellow, and taen the churl.


The Miller he hecht her a heart leal and loving,
The lair did address her wi’ matter mair moving,
A fine pacing-horse wi’ a clear chained bridle,
A whip by her side, and a bonie side-saddle.


O wae on the siller, it is sae prevailin’,
And wae on the love that is fixed on a mailen!
A tocher’s nae word in a true lover’s parle,
But gie me my love, and a fig for the warl’!...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert
...lines and tented field,
 Where lang I’d been a lodger,
My humble knapsack a’ my wealth,
 A poor and honest sodger.


A leal, light heart was in my breast,
 My hand unstain’d wi’ plunder;
And for fair Scotia hame again,
 I cheery on did wander:
I thought upon the banks o’ Coil,
 I thought upon my Nancy,
I thought upon the witching smile
 That caught my youthful fancy.


At length I reach’d the bonie glen,
 Where early life I sported;
I pass’d the mill and trysting thorn,
 Whe...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert
...FRIEND of the Poet, tried and leal,
Wha, wanting thee, might beg or steal;
Alake, alake, the meikle deil
 Wi’ a’ his witches
Are at it skelpin jig and reel,
 In my poor pouches?


I modestly fu’ fain wad hint it,
That One-pound-one, I sairly want it;
If wi’ the hizzie down ye sent it,
 It would be kind;
And while my heart wi’ life-blood dunted,
 I’d bear’t in mind.


So may the Auld year...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...


The lasses feat, an’ cleanly neat,
 Mair braw than when they’re fine;
Their faces blythe, fu’ sweetly kythe,
 Hearts leal, an’ warm, an’ kin’:
The lads sae trig, wi’ wooer-babs
 Weel-knotted on their garten;
Some unco blate, an’ some wi’ gabs
 Gar lasses’ hearts gang startin
 Whiles fast at night.


Then, first an’ foremost, thro’ the kail,
 Their stocks 5 maun a’ be sought ance;
They steek their een, and grape an’ wale
 For muckle anes, an’ straught anes.
Poor hav’rel Wil...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert
...afely sought, where since she prospered,
royal, throned, rich in goods,
fain of the fair life fate had sent her,
and leal in love to the lord of warriors.
He, of all heroes I heard of ever
from sea to sea, of the sons of earth,
most excellent seemed. Hence Offa was praised
for his fighting and feeing by far-off men,
the spear-bold warrior; wisely he ruled
over his empire. Eomer woke to him,
help of heroes, Hemming’s kinsman,
Grandson of Garmund, grim in war.



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by Anonymous,
...t hath passed!

Hard-schooled by long power,
 Yet most humble of mind
Where aught that he was
 Might advantage mankind.
Leal servant, loved master,
 Rare comrade, sure guide. . . .
Oh, our world is none the safer
 Now Great-Heart hath died!

Let those who would handle
 Make sure they can wield
His far-reaching sword
 And his close-guarding shield:
For those who must journey
 Henceforward alone
Have need of stout convoy
 Now Great-Heart is gone....Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard
...rarca

O my heart's heart, and you who are to me
More than myself myself, God be with you,
Keep you in strong obedience leal and true
To Him whose noble service setteth free,
Give you all good we see or can foresee,
Make your joys many and your sorrows few,
Bless you in what you bear and what you do,
Yea, perfect you as He would have you be.
So much for you; but what for me, dear friend?
To love you without stint and all I can
Today, tomorrow, world without an end;
To love yo...Read more of this...
by Rossetti, Christina
...me for your friend: 
Come, ye know nothing: here I pledge my troth, 
Yea, by the honour of the Table Round, 
I will be leal to thee and work thy work, 
And tame thy jailing princess to thine hand. 
Lend me thine horse and arms, and I will say 
That I have slain thee. She will let me in 
To hear the manner of thy fight and fall; 
Then, when I come within her counsels, then 
From prime to vespers will I chant thy praise 
As prowest knight and truest lover, more 
Than any have ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...dear Jesus! thus 
 Bowed at the cross where Thou didst bleed for us, 
 I swear to hold the truth that now I learn, 
 Leal to the loyal, to the traitor stern, 
 And ever just and nobly mild to be, 
 Meet scholar of that Prince of Chivalry; 
 And here Thy shrine bear witness, Lord, for me." 
 
 The horse of Roland, hearing the boy tell 
 His vow, looked round and spoke: "O King, 'tis well!" 
 Then on the charger mounted the child-king, 
 And rode into the town, while...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor
...m on--
There, reddening in the evening sun,
From far, the domes of Syracuse!--
When towards him comes Philostratus
(His leal and trusty herdsman he),
And to the master bends his knee.

"Back--thou canst aid thy friend no more,
The niggard time already flown--
His life is forfeit--save thine own!
Hour after hour in hope he bore,
Nor might his soul its faith give o'er;
Nor could the tyrant's scorn deriding,
Steal from that faith one thought confiding!"

"Too late! what horror h...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von
...The friends I made have slipped and strayed,
And who's the one that cares?
A trifling lot and best forgot-
And that's my tale, and theirs.

Then if my friendships break and bend,
There's little need to cry
The while I know that every foe
Is faithful till I die....Read more of this...
by Parker, Dorothy
...steries, and mights,
Of Nature's utmost depths and heights,
-- These doth my timid tongue present,
Their mouthpiece and leal instrument
And servant, all love-eloquent.
I heard, when `"All for love"' the violins cried:
So, Nature calls through all her system wide,
`Give me thy love, O man, so long denied.'
Much time is run, and man hath changed his ways,
Since Nature, in the antique fable-days,
Was hid from man's true love by proxy fays,
False fauns and rascal gods that stole ...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

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