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Famous Omened Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...e is the buffalo. 
Out of the big lagoons, 
Where the Regia lilies float, 
And the Nankin heron croons 
With a deep ill-omened note, 
In the ooze and the mud of the swamps below 
Lazily wallows the buffalo, 
Buried to nose and throat. 

From the hunter's gun he hides 
In the jungle's dark and damp, 
Where the slinking dingo glides 
And the flying foxes camp; 
Hanging like myriad fiends in line 
Where the trailing creepers twist and twine 
And the sun is a sluggish lamp. 

On ...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton



...into the lucid air
Like smoke from some deep caldron of despair!
And more, and more, and ever more,
The numberless, ill-omened brood,
Flapping their ragged plumes,
Possessed the landscape and the evening light
With menaces and glooms.
Oh, dark, dark, dark they hovered o'er the place
Where once I saw the little house so white
Amid the flowers, covering every trace
Of beauty from my troubled sight, --
And suddenly it was night! 


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At break of day I crossed the wooded vale;...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van
...on for sire Lover
     for maid beloved!—But why
     Is it the breeze affects mine eye?
     Or dost thou come, ill-omened tear!
     A messenger of doubt or fear?
     No! sooner may the Saxon lance
     Unfix Benledi from his stance,
     Than doubt or terror can pierce through
     The unyielding heart of Roderick Dhu!
     'tis stubborn as his trusty targe.
     Each to his post!—all know their charge.'
     The pibroch sounds, the bands advance,
     The bro...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter
...
At the armed man sideways, pitying as it seemed, 
Or self-involved; but when she learnt his face, 
Remembering his ill-omened song, arose 
Once more through all her height, and o'er him grew 
Tall as a figure lengthened on the sand 
When the tide ebbs in sunshine, and he said: 

'O fair and strong and terrible! Lioness 
That with your long locks play the Lion's mane! 
But Love and Nature, these are two more terrible 
And stronger. See, your foot is on our necks, 
We vanquish...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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