Famous Lordship Poems by Famous Poets

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

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111. Address to Beelzebub

...n’ be d—d! what right hae they
To meat, or sleep, or light o’ day?
Far less—to riches, pow’r, or freedom,
But what your lordship likes to gie them?


But hear, my lord! Glengarry, hear!
Your hand’s owre light to them, I fear;
Your factors, grieves, trustees, and bailies,
I canna say but they do gaylies;
They lay aside a’ tender mercies,
An’ tirl the hallions to the birses;
Yet while they’re only poind’t and herriet,
They’ll keep their stubborn Highland spirit:
But smash them!...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


139. Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer

...’ branks,
An’ stumpin on his ploughman shanks,
 He in the parlour hammer’d.


I sidying shelter’d in a nook,
An’ at his Lordship steal’t a look,
 Like some portentous omen;
Except good sense and social glee,
An’ (what surpris’d me) modesty,
 I markèd nought uncommon.


I watch’d the symptoms o’ the Great,
The gentle pride, the lordly state,
 The arrogant assuming;
The fient a pride, nae pride had he,
Nor sauce, nor state, that I could see,
 Mair than an honest ploughman.


Th...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

152. Extempore in the Court of Session

...nse came short,
 He eked out wi’ law, man.


MR. ERSKINECollected, Harry stood awee,
 Then open’d out his arm, man;
His Lordship sat wi’ ruefu’ e’e,
 And ey’d the gathering storm, man:
Like wind-driven hail it did assail’
 Or torrents owre a lin, man:
The BENCH sae wise, lift up their eyes,
 Half-wauken’d wi’ the din, man....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

159. Song—My Lord a-Hunting he is gane

...ite, my lady’s red,
And kith and kin o’ Cassillis’ blude;
But her ten-pund lands o’ tocher gude;
Were a’ the charms his lordship lo’ed.
 My lady’s gown, &c.


Out o’er yon muir, out o’er yon moss,
Whare gor-cocks thro’ the heather pass,
There wons auld Colin’s bonie lass,
A lily in a wilderness.
 My lady’s gown, &c.


Sae sweetly move her genty limbs,
Like music notes o’lovers’ hymns:
The diamond-dew in her een sae blue,
Where laughing love sae wanton swims.
 My lady’s gown, ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

A Nervous Governor-General

...rom loyalty's path does not swerve us; 
But his tastes, and the task, don't seem quite in accord 
For they say that His Lordship is nervous. 
Does he think that wild animals walk in the street, 
Where the wary marsupial is hopping? 
Does he think that the snake and the platypus meet 
And "bail up" the folk who go shopping? 
And the boomerangs fly round the scared passer-by 
Who has come all this way to observe us. 
While the blackfellow launches a spear at his eye? 
-- No won...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton


Beowulf (Modern English)

...
look eagerly upon the bright gemstones,
so that I can the more easily after the treasured hoard
give up my life and lordship, which I have long held.” (ll. 2724-51)

 

XXXVIII.

Then as I have heard the son of Weohstan,
after that wordful statement heeded his wounded lord,
war-sickened, bearing his ringed net,
the braided battle-sark under the barrow’s roof.
He saw then, victor-glorious and mindful, the kindred thane,
when he passed by the seat, many precious ...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Beowulf (Old English)

...s, golden store,
have joy in the jewels and gems, lay down
softlier for sight of this splendid hoard
my life and the lordship I long have held.”



XXXVI

I HAVE heard that swiftly the son of Weohstan
at wish and word of his wounded king, --
war-sick warrior, -- woven mail-coat,
battle-sark, bore ’neath the barrow’s roof.
Then the clansman keen, of conquest proud,
passing the seat, {36a} saw store of jewels
and glistening gold the ground along;
by the wall wer...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV To Richard Boyle

...e turns you round:
These Aldus printed, those Du Sueil has bound.
Lo, some are vellum, and the rest as good
For all his Lordship knows, but they are wood.
For Locke or Milton 'tis in vain to look,
These shelves admit not any modern book.

And now the chapel's silver bell you hear,
That summons you to all the pride of pray'r:
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,
Make the soul dance upon a jig to heaven.
On painted ceilings you devoutly stare,
Where sprawl the saints of Ve...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

Joshua 24:14-15

...,
He does not want to share
We should never allow another
The place reserved for Him,
But to give Him that place of Lordship
That will keep our hearts from sin
For we must choose whom to serve
And whom our allegiance is for
But as for me and my household,
We shall only serve the Lord.Scripture Poem © Copyright Of M.S.Lowndes...Read more of this...
by Bible, The

Monadnoc

...feel the ground,
Ere yet arrive the wintry day
When Time thy feet has bound.
Accept the bounty of thy birth;
Taste the lordship of the earth.

I heard and I obeyed,
Assured that he who pressed the claim,
Well-known, but loving not a name,
Was not to be gainsaid.

Ere yet the summoning voice was still,
I turned to Cheshire's haughty hill.
From the fixed cone the cloud-rack flowed
Like ample banner flung abroad
Round about, a hundred miles,
With invitation to the sea, and to t...Read more of this...
by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The Ballad Of The Hanged Men

...imbles.

Therefore, think not of joining our guild,
but pray God
 would us all absolve.

Prince Jesus, who over all has lordship,
care that hell not gain of us dominion.
With it we have no business, fast or loose.

People, here be no mocking,
but pray God
 would us all absolve....Read more of this...
by Villon, Francois

The Black Watch Memorial

...struck up, and the pipes were set a bumming,
And all with one accord played up the "Campbell's are Coming." 

Then his Lordship ascended a platform on the north side of the monument,
And the bands played cheerfully till their breath was almost spent;
Then his Lordship received three ringing cheers from the people there,
Then he requested the Rev. John McLean to open the proceedings with prayer. 

And after the prayer, Major Menzies stepped forward
And said, "Ladies and gentl...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

The Duties of an Aide-de-camp

...rnor's side 
We must stick -- or the public would eat him -- 
For each bounder we see 
Says, "Just introduce me 
To His Lordship -- I'm anxious to meet him." 

Then they grab at his paw 
And they chatter and jaw 
Till they'd talk him to death -- if we'd let 'em -- 
And the folk he has met, 
They are all in a fret, 
Just for fear he might chance to forget 'em. 

When some local King Billy 
Is talking him silly, 
Or the pound-keeper's wife has waylaid him, 
From folks of that s...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

The Jacquerie A Fragment

...have come to pass
Then never a king shall rule again in France,
For every villein shall be king in France:
And who hath lordship in him, whether born
In hedge or silken bed, shall be a lord:
And queens shall be as thick i' the land as wives,
And all the maids shall maids of honor be:
And high and low shall commune solemnly:
And stars and stones shall have free interview.
But woe is me, 'tis also piteous true
That ere this gracious time shall visit France,
Your graves, Beloved...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

The Knights Tale

...give this trespass *every deal*. *completely*
And they him sware *his asking* fair and well, *what he asked*
And him of lordship and of mercy pray'd,
And he them granted grace, and thus he said:

"To speak of royal lineage and richess,
Though that she were a queen or a princess,
Each of you both is worthy doubteless
To wedde when time is; but natheless
I speak as for my sister Emily,
For whom ye have this strife and jealousy,
Ye wot* yourselves, she may not wed the two *know
...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Lady of the Lake

...s now for boding fear;
     Obscure, but safe, we rest us here.
     My sire, in native virtue great,
     Resigning lordship, lands, and state,
     Not then to fortune more resigned
     Than yonder oak might give the wind;
     The graceful foliage storms may reeve,
     'Fine noble stem they cannot grieve.
     For me'—she stooped, and, looking round,
     Plucked a blue harebell from the ground,—
     'For me, whose memory scarce conveys
     An image of more ...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Song Of The Standard

...Twice hast thou spoken a message, and time is athirst for the third.

Kingdom and empire of peoples thou hadst, and thy lordship made one
North sea and south sea and east men and west men that look on the sun;
Spirit was in thee and counsel, when soul in the nations was none.

Banner and beacon thou wast to the centuries of storm-wind and foam,
Ages that clashed in the dark with each other, and years without home;
Empress and prophetess wast thou, and what wilt thou now be, O...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Tiresias

...ead,
And sleep below this world, where no sun warms,
Or move about it now in formless forms
Incognizable, and all their lordship fled;
And where they stood up singing crawl and hiss,
With fangs that kill behind their lips that kiss.

Yet though her marriage-garment, seeming fair,
Was dyed in sin and woven of jealousy
To turn their seed to poison, time shall see
The gods reissue from them, and repair
Their broken stamp of godhead, and again
Thought and wise love sing words of ...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Troilus And Criseyde: Book 02

...and called is Criseyde,
Which some men wolden doon oppressioun,
And wrongfully have hir possessioun:
Wherfor I of your lordship yow biseche 
To been our freend, with-oute more speche.'

Deiphebus him answerde, 'O, is not this,
That thow spekest of to me thus straungely,
Criseyda, my freend?' He seyde, 'Yis.'
'Than nedeth,' quod Deiphebus, 'hardely, 
Na-more to speke, for trusteth wel, that I
Wol be hir champioun with spore and yerde;
I roughte nought though alle hir foos it ...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

Troilus And Criseyde: Book 03

...o me,' quod she, 'Ey! What is this to seye?
Sire, come am I to yow for causes tweye; 
First, yow to thonke, and of your lordshipe eke
Continuance I wolde yow biseke.'

This Troilus, that herde his lady preye
Of lordship him, wex neither quik ne deed,
Ne mighte a word for shame to it seye, 
Al-though men sholde smyten of his heed.
But lord, so he wex sodeinliche reed,
And sire, his lesson, that he wende conne,
To preyen hir, is thurgh his wit y-ronne.

Cryseyde al this aspyede...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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