Famous Pounced Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Beowulf (Modern English)

...ide—
terror and deadly fear stood up in the hall-guest.
However that fearful shape… (ll. 2221-28a)

… When the fear pounced upon him,
seeking the jeweled cup. There were many more its like
in that buried house, ancient treasures
just as I-know-not-which men in days gone by
had hidden there, a tremendous legacy
of a noble kindred taking meditation
upon their precious treasures. Death had seized them all
in earlier times, and he who was yet alone,
a man of the multi...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,


The straw parlor

...pine they just sizzled, don't you?

But once there invaded that Eden of straw
The evilest Feline that ever you saw!
She pounced on that cricket with rare promptitude
And she tucked him away where he'd do the most good;
And then, reaching down to the nethermost house,
She deftly expiscated little Miss Mouse!
And, as for the Swallow, she shrieked and withdrew--
I rather admire her discretion, don't you?

Now listen: That evening a cyclone obtained,
And the mortgage was all on t...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene

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