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Famous Parry Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Moore, Thomas
...myself transferr'd off
To some far, lonely land of peace,
Where Corn or Papists ne'er were heard of.

Yes, waft me, Parry, to the Pole,
For -- if my fate is to be chosen
'Twixt bores and icebergs -- on my soul,
I'd rather, of the two, be frozen!...Read more of this...



by Smart, Christopher
...s of the Temple. 

Let Jehoida bless God with an Hare, whose mazes are determined for the health of the body and to parry the adversary. 

Let Ahitub humble himself with an Ape before Almighty God, who is the maker of variety and pleasantry. 

Let Abiathar with a Fox praise the name of the Lord, who ballances craft against strength and skill against number. 

Let Moses, the Man of God, bless with a Lizard, in the sweet majesty of good-nature, and the magnanimi...Read more of this...

by Smart, Christopher
...of Gideon, rejoice with Ecchetae which are musical grashoppers. 

Let Hushai rejoice with the Ospray who is able to parry the eagle. 

Let Eglah rejoice with Phalaris who is a pleasant object upon the water. 

Let Haggith rejoice with the white Weasel who devoureth the honey and it's maker. 

Let Abital rejoice with Ptyas who is arrayed in green and gold. 

Let Maacah rejoice with Dryophyte who was blessed of the Lord in the valley. 

Let Zabud Solomon...Read more of this...

by Kilmer, Joyce
...(For Helen Parry Eden)

"Hail Mary, full of grace," the Angel saith.
Our Lady bows her head, and is ashamed;
She has a Bridegroom Who may not be named,
Her mortal flesh bears Him Who conquers death.
Now in the dust her spirit grovelleth;
Too bright a Sun before her eyes has flamed,
Too fair a herald joy too high proclaimed,
And human lips have trembled in God's...Read more of this...

by Edgar, Marriott
...d and shot him. 
He were off-side, but what could they do?

The Normans turned round in a fury, 
And gave back both parry and thrust,
Till the fight were all over bar shouting, 
And you couldn't see Saxons for dust.

And after the battle were over 
They found 'Arold so stately and grand,
Sitting there with an eye-full of arrow 
On his 'orse with his 'awk in his 'and....Read more of this...



by Service, Robert William
...eed me.

For guile and a purse gold-greased are the arms you carry;
With deeds of paper you fight and with pens you parry;
You call on the hounds of the law your foes to harry.

You with your "Art for its own sake", posing and prinking;
You with your "Live and be merry", eating and drinking;
You with your "Peace at all hazard", from bright blood shrinking.

Fools! I will tell you now: though the red rain patters,
And a million of men go down, it's little it matter...Read more of this...

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