Famous Ravaging Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Ravaging poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous ravaging poems. These examples illustrate what a famous ravaging poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Service, Robert William
...only heroes may:
Oh, harken! Let me try to tell the tale of Jean Desprez.
With fire and sword the Teuton horde was ravaging the land,
And there was darkness and despair, grim death on every hand;
Red fields of slaughter sloping down to ruin's black abyss;
The wolves of war ran evil-fanged, and little did they miss.
And on they came with fear and flame, to burn and loot and slay,
Until they reached the red-roofed croft, the home of Jean Desprez.
"Rout out the vil...Read more of this...
by
Turner Smith, Charlotte
...eath the flow'ring thorn, are stain'd with blood.
There fall, at once, the spoiler and the spoil'd;
While War, wide-ravaging, annihilates
The hope of cultivation; gives to Fiends,
The meagre, ghastly Fiends of Want and Woe,
The blasted land--There, taunting in the van
Of vengeance-breathing armies, Insult stalks;
And, in the ranks, "1 Famine, and Sword, and Fire,
"Crouch for employment."--Lo! the suffering world,
Torn by the fearful conflict, shrinks, amaz'd,
From Fre...Read more of this...
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Lawrence, D. H.
...eat black piano is clamouring as my mother's never could clamour
And the tunes of the past are devoured of this music's ravaging glamour....Read more of this...
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