Famous Reining Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Reining poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous reining poems. These examples illustrate what a famous reining poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...eds and riches. So must good kinsmen do,
not at all weaving together a malicious net for the other
with hidden skill, reining in death
for his hand-comrade. Hygelac’s nephew
was most loyal, hardened by conflict,
each man was mindful of the other’s satisfaction. (ll. 2163-71)
I heard also that he gave that necklace to Hygd,
that well-wrought wonder-treasure, which Wealhtheow
had given to him, the daughter of princes,
along with three horses, supple and saddle-bright...Read more of this...
by
Anonymous,
...empt us back?'
'Ay,' the nobles shout in chorus ; 'Ay,' the powder'd lacquey cries;
Then they stop with eager movement, reining in quite suddenly;
Peering down with half contemptuous, half with wonder-opened eyes
At a 'something' which is crawling, with slow step, from tree to tree.
Is't some shadow phantom ghastly ? No, a woman and a child,
Swarthy woman, with the 'gipsy' written clear upon her face;
Gazing round her with her wide eyes dark, and shadow-fringed, and wild,
Wit...Read more of this...
by
Levy, Amy
...abode
By those red-veined rocks far West,
You were the swan-necked one who rode
Along the beetling Beeny Crest,
And, reining nigh me,
Would muse and eye me,
While Life unrolled us its very best.
Why, then, latterly did we not speak,
Did we not think of those days long dead,
And ere your vanishing strive to seek
That time's renewal? We might have said,
"In this bright spring weather
We'll visit together
Those places that once we visited."
Well, well! All's past amend,...Read more of this...
by
Hardy, Thomas
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