Famous Nome Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Nome poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous nome poems. These examples illustrate what a famous nome poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Service, Robert William
...The mule-skinner was Bill Jerome, the passengers were three;
Two tinhorns from the dives of Nome, and Father Tim McGee.
And as for sunny Southland bound, through weary woods they sped,
The solitude that ringed them round was silent as the dead.
Then when the trail crooked crazily, the frost-rimed horses reared,
And from behind a fallen tree a grim galoot appeared;
He wore a parki white as snow, a mask as black as soot,
And carelesslike wea...Read more of this...
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Chatterton, Thomas
...doe shemrynge ryse;
Upswalynge doe heie shewe ynne drierie pryde,
Lyche gore-red estells in the eve merk skyes;
The nome-depeyncted shields, the speres aryse,
Alyche talle roshes on the water syde;
Alenge from bark to bark the bryghte sheene flyes;
Sweft-kerv'd delyghtes doe on the water glyde.
Sprytes of the bleste, and everich Seyncte ydedde,
Poure owte youre pleasaunce on mie fadres hedde.
III.
The Sarasen lokes owte: he doethe feere,
That Englond...Read more of this...
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Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...he Romulus to Rome ricchis hym swythe,
With gret bobbaunce that buryghe he biges vpon fyrst,
And neuenes hit his aune nome, as hit now hat;
Tirius to Tuskan and teldes bigynnes,
Langaberde in Lumbardie lyftes vp homes,
And fer ouer the French flod Felix Brutus
On mony bonkkes ful brode Bretayn he settez
wyth wynne,
Where werre and wrake and wonder
Bi sythez hatz wont therinne,
And oft bothe blysse and blunder
Ful skete hatz skyfted synne.
Ande quen this Bretay...Read more of this...
by
Service, Robert William
...shen plains;
My rivers that flash into foam;
My ultimate valleys where solitude reigns;
My trail from Fort Churchill to Nome.
My forests packed full of mysterious gloom,
My ice-fields agrind and aglare:
The city is deadfalled with danger and doom --
I know that I'm safer up there.
I watch the wan faces that flash in the street;
All kinds and all classes I see.
Yet never a one in the million I meet,
Has the smile of a comrade for me.
Just jaded and panting lik...Read more of this...
by
Alighieri, Dante
...;
l'altro ? Orazio satiro che vene;
Ovidio ? 'l terzo, e l'ultimo Lucano.
Per? che ciascun meco si convene
nel nome che son? la voce sola,
fannomi onore, e di ci? fanno bene».
Cos? vid'i' adunar la bella scola
di quel segnor de l'altissimo canto
che sovra li altri com'aquila vola.
Da ch'ebber ragionato insieme alquanto,
volsersi a me con salutevol cenno,
e 'l mio maestro sorrise di tanto;
e pi? d'onore ancora assai mi fenno,
ch'e' s? mi fecer de l...Read more of this...
by
Service, Robert William
...It was the steamer Alice May that sailed the Yukon foam.
And touched in every river camp from Dawson down to Nome.
It was her builder, owner, pilot, Captain Silas Geer,
Who took her through the angry ice, the last boat of the year;
Who patched her cracks with gunny sacks and wound her pipes with wire,
And cut the spruce upon the banks to feed her boiler fire;
Who headed her into the stream and bucked its mighty flow,
And nosed her up the little creeks where no ...Read more of this...
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Alighieri, Dante
..., che a' rai
di vita etterna la dolcezza senti
che, non gustata, non s'intende mai,
grazioso mi fia se mi contenti
del nome tuo e de la vostra sorte».
Ond'ella, pronta e con occhi ridenti:
«La nostra carit? non serra porte
a giusta voglia, se non come quella
che vuol simile a s? tutta sua corte.
I' fui nel mondo vergine sorella;
e se la mente tua ben s? riguarda,
non mi ti celer? l'esser pi? bella,
ma riconoscerai ch'i' son Piccarda,
che, posta qui con questi altr...Read more of this...
by
Alighieri, Dante
...Campaldino,
che non si seppe mai tua sepultura?».
«Oh!», rispuos'elli, «a piè del Casentino
traversa un'acqua c'ha nome l'Archiano,
che sovra l'Ermo nasce in Apennino.
Là 've 'l vocabol suo diventa vano,
arriva' io forato ne la gola,
fuggendo a piede e sanguinando il piano.
Quivi perdei la vista e la parola
nel nome di Maria fini', e quivi
caddi, e rimase la mia carne sola.
Io dirò vero e tu 'l ridì tra ' vivi:
l'angel di Dio mi prese, e quel d'inferno
gri...Read more of this...
by
Milton, John
...II
Donna leggiadra il cui bel nome honora
L'herbosa val di Rheno, e il nobil varco,
Ben e colui d'ogni valore scarco
Qual tuo spirto gentil non innamora,
Che dolcemente mostra si di fuora
De suoi atti soavi giamai parco,
E i don', che son d'amor saette ed arco,
La onde l' alta tua virtu s'infiora.
Quando tu vaga parli, O lieta canti
Che mover possa duro alpestre legno,
Guardi ciascu...Read more of this...
by
Service, Robert William
...the grizzle of his dome,
And a bunch of inky whiskers on his jaw;
The suddenly I knew the guy - 'twas Black Moran from Nome.
A guinney like greased lightening on the draw.
But no one got his number in that wild and wooly throng,
As they hailed his invitation with eclaw,
And they crowded round the stranger, but I knew something was wrong.
When in there stomped the Sheriff, Red McGraw.
Now Red McGraw from Arkansaw was noted for his *****;
He had a dozen notche...Read more of this...
by
Service, Robert William
...r o' pins--
We gotta hold a christinin' wi' Father Tim McGee."
"I aim to be their Godpa," bellowed Black Moran from Nome.
"The guy wot don't love childer is a blasted S.O.B.:
So long as I can tot a gun them kids won't lack a home."
"I sink zey creep into my heart," said Montreal Maree.
'Twas hectic in the Nugget Bar, the hooch was flowin' free,
An' Lousetown Liz was singin' of how someone done her wrong,
Wi' sixty seeded sourdoughs all ahollerin' ...Read more of this...
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
...r this trowe I ye knowen, alle or some,
Men reden not that folk han gretter wit
Than they that han be most with love y-nome;
And strengest folk ben therwith overcome,
The worthiest and grettest of degree:
This was, and is, and yet men shal it see.
And trewelich it sit wel to be so;
For alderwysest han ther-with ben plesed;
And they that han ben aldermost in wo,
With love han ben conforted most and esed;
And ofte it hath the cruel herte apesed,
And worthy folk maad wor...Read more of this...
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Chaucer, Geoffrey
...?
But to the poynt; now whan that she was y-come
With alle Ioye, and alle frendes fare,
Hir em anoon in armes hath hir nome,
And after to the souper, alle and some,
Whan tyme was, ful softe they hem sette;
God wot, ther was no deyntee for to fette.
And after souper gonnen they to ryse,
At ese wel, with hertes fresshe and glade,
And wel was him that coude best devyse
To lyken hir, or that hir laughen made.
He song; she pleyde; he tolde tale of Wade.
But at the l...Read more of this...
by
Chaucer, Geoffrey
...en him she wolde, and wel she mighte,
As seyde she, and from hir hors she alighte.
Hir fader hath hir in his armes nome,
And tweynty tyme he kiste his doughter swete,
And seyde, 'O dere doughter myn, wel-come!'
She seyde eek, she was fayn with him to mete,
And stood forth mewet, milde, and mansuete.
But here I leve hir with hir fader dwelle,
And forth I wol of Troilus yow telle.
To Troye is come this woful Troilus,
In sorwe aboven alle sorwes smerte,
With felo...Read more of this...
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