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Famous Riving Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...l, and shatter'd all the brain,
Prone on his face he tumbled to the plain:
Goliath's fall no smaller terror yields
Than riving thunders in aerial fields:
The soul still ling'red in its lov'd abode,
Till conq'ring David o'er the giant strode:
Goliath's sword then laid its master dead,
And from the body hew'd the ghastly head;
The blood in gushing torrents drench'd the plains,
The soul found passage through the spouting veins.
And now aloud th' illustrious victor said,
"Where a...Read more of this...
by Wheatley, Phillis



...flesh, dissolved and bedded,

Through viewless valves embodied so –



Till daylight, the expulsion and awakening,

The riving and the driving forth,

Life with remorseless forceps beckoning –

Pangs and betrayal of harsh birth....Read more of this...
by Fletcher, John Gould
...e hall, 
That Galahad would sit down in Merlin's chair. 

`And all at once, as there we sat, we heard 
A cracking and a riving of the roofs, 
And rending, and a blast, and overhead 
Thunder, and in the thunder was a cry. 
And in the blast there smote along the hall 
A beam of light seven times more clear than day: 
And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail 
All over covered with a luminous cloud. 
And none might see who bare it, and it past. 
But every knight beheld his fel...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...crew, in
Unchrist, all rolled in ruin—

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Deeply surely I need to deplore it,
Wondering why my master bore it,
 The riving off that race
So at home, time was, to his truth and grace 

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That a starlight-wender of ours would say
The marvellous Milk was Walsingham Way
 And one—but let be, let be:
More, more than was will yet be.—

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O well wept, mother have lost son;
Wept, wife; wept, sweetheart would be one:
 Though grief yield them no good
Yet shed what tears sad tr...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley
...the sunless sky 
Big with clouds, hangs heavily, 10 
And behind the tempest fleet 
Hurries on with lightning feet, 
Riving sail, and cord, and plank, 
Till the ship has almost drank 
Death from the o'er-brimming deep, 15 
And sinks down, down, like that sleep 
When the dreamer seems to be 
Weltering through eternity; 
And the dim low line before 
Of a dark and distant shore 20 
Still recedes, as ever still 
Longing with divided will, 
But no power to seek or shu...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe



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