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Famous Magellan Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...e in measur’d style;
She lay like some unkenn’d-of-isle
 Beside New Holland,
Or whare wild-meeting oceans boil
 Besouth Magellan.


Ramsay an’ famous Fergusson
Gied Forth an’ Tay a lift aboon;
Yarrow an’ Tweed, to monie a tune,
 Owre Scotland rings;
While Irwin, Lugar, Ayr, an’ Doon
 Naebody sings.


Th’ Illissus, Tiber, Thames, an’ Seine,
Glide sweet in monie a tunefu’ line:
But Willie, set your fit to mine,
 An’ cock your crest;
We’ll gar our streams an’ burnies shi...Read more of this...



by Milton, John
...the horizon, and not known 
Or east or west; which had forbid the snow 
From cold Estotiland, and south as far 
Beneath Magellan. At that tasted fruit 
The sun, as from Thyestean banquet, turned 
His course intended; else, how had the world 
Inhabited, though sinless, more than now, 
Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat? 
These changes in the Heavens, though slow, produced 
Like change on sea and land; sideral blast, 
Vapour, and mist, and exhalation hot, 
Corrupt and...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...the silent herd did not hear "The Mocking Bird",
 Or relish "Silver Threads among the Gold"?

Do you recollect the wild Magellan coast;
 The head-winds and the icy, roaring seas;
The nights you thought that everything was lost;
 The days you toiled in water to your knees;
The frozen ratlines shrieking in the gale;
 The hissing steeps and gulfs of livid foam:
When you cheered your messmates nine with "Ben Bolt" and "Clementine",
 And "Dixie Land" and "Seeing Nellie Home"?

Let...Read more of this...

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