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Famous Lyons Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sidney, Sir Philip
...d, what sword did late obtaine.
Nor that he made the floure-de-luce so 'fraid,
(Though strongly hedg'd) of bloudy lyons pawes,
That wittie Lewes to him a tribute paid:
Nor this, nor that, nor any such small cause;
But only for this worthy King durst proue
To lose his crowne, rather than faile his loue. 
LXXVI 

She comes, and streight therewith her shining twins do moue
Their rayes to me, who in their tedious absence lay
Benighted in cold wo; but now appear...Read more of this...



by Chatterton, Thomas
...prytes of the bleste, the pious Nygelle sed, 
Pure owte yer pleasaunce onn mie fadres hedde. 

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Rycharde of Lyons harte to fyghte is gon, 
Uponne the brede sea doe the banners gleme, 
The amenused nationnes be aston, 
To ken syke large a flete, syke fyne, syke breme, 
The barkis heafods coupe the lymed streme; 
Oundes synkeynge oundes upon the hard ake riese; 
The water slughornes ayre, and reche the skies. 
Sprytes of the bleste, on gouldyn trones astedde, 
P...Read more of this...

by Finch, Anne Kingsmill
...her Throat, 
And Love, Love, Love, is all her Ev'ning Note. 
The very Tygers have their tender Hours, 
And prouder Lyons bow beneath Love's Pow'rs. 
Thou, prouder yet than that imperious Beast, 
Alone deny'st him Shelter in thy Breast. 
But why should I the Creatures only name 
That Sense partake, as Owners of this Flame? 
Love farther goes, nor stops his Course at these: 
The Plants he moves, and gently bends the Trees. 
See how those Willows mix their am'ro...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...idney, Melbourne; 
I am of London, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, Limerick; 
I am of Madrid, Cadiz, Barcelona, Oporto, Lyons, Brussels, Berne, Frankfort, Stuttgart,
 Turin,
 Florence; 
I belong in Moscow, Cracow, Warsaw—or northward in Christiania or Stockholm—or in Siberian
 Irkutsk—or in some street in Iceland; 
I descend upon all those cities, and rise from them again.

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I see vapors exhaling from unexplored countries; 
I see the savage types, the bow and arrow, the...Read more of this...

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