Famous Rovers Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Letter From Li Po

...shore
as of the Ho-Ho birds at Jewel Gate
southward bound and who knows where and never late
or lost in a roar at sea. Rovers of chaos
each one the ‘Rover of Chao,' whose slight bones
shall put to shame the swords. We fly with these,
have always flown, and they
stay with us here, stand still and stay,
while, exiled in the Land of Pa, Li Po
still at the Wine Spring stoops to drink the moon.
And northward now, for fall gives way to spring,
from Sandy Hook and Kitty Hawk they w...Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad


A Subalterns Love Song

...ark the dance has begun,
Oh! Surry twilight! importunate band!
Oh! strongly adorable tennis-girl's hand!

Around us are Rovers and Austins afar,
Above us the intimate roof of the car,
And here on my right is the girl of my choice,
With the tilt of her nose and the chime of her voice.

And the scent of her wrap, and the words never said,
And the ominous, ominous dancing ahead.
We sat in the car park till twenty to one
And now I'm engaged to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn....Read more of this...
by Betjeman, John

Beowulf (Old English)

...ion sound and alive,
hale from the hero-play homeward strode.
With haste in the hall, by highest order,
room for the rovers was readily made.
By his sovran he sat, come safe from battle,
kinsman by kinsman. His kindly lord
he first had greeted in gracious form,
with manly words. The mead dispensing,
came through the high hall Haereth’s daughter,
winsome to warriors, wine-cup bore
to the hands of the heroes. Hygelac then
his comrade fairly with question plied
in th...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Prelude

...

For I would be the living voice,
Though raucous is its tone,
Of men who rarely may rejoice,
Yet barely ever moan:
The rovers of the raw-ribbed lands,
The lads of lowly worth,
The scallywags with scaley hands
Who weld the ends of earth....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Rovers Rest

...By parents I would not be pinned,
 Nor in my home abide,
For I was wanton as the wind
 And tameless as the tide;
So scornful of domestic hearth,
 And bordered garden path,
I sought the wilder ways of earth,
 The roads of wrath.

It scares me now to think of how
 Foolhardily I fared;
Though mighty scarred of pelt and pow
 A dozen deaths I've dared;
Yet ther...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Sea-adventurers' Song

...ke, 
 Believe or not, who cares? 
 I tell ye that he begged till black 
 I' the face to have his shares. 
 
 We're rovers of the restless main, 
 But we've some conscience, mark! 
 And we know what it is to reign, 
 And finally did heark— 
 Aye, masters of the narrow Neck, 
 We hearkened to our heart, 
 And gave him freedom on our deck, 
 His town, and gold—in part. 
 
 My lucky mates for that were made 
 Grandees of Old Castile, 
 And maids of honor went to w...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

The Glory of Ships

...The glory of ships is an old, old song,
since the days when the sea-rovers ran 
In their open boats through the roaring surf,
and the spread of the world began; 
The glory of ships is a light on the sea,
and a star in the story of man. 

When Homer sang of the galleys of Greece
that conquered the Trojan shore,
And Solomon lauded the barks of Tyre that
brought great wealth to his door, 
'Twas little they knew, those ancient m...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van

The Lost Legion

...must drink it in whispers),
 To our wholly unauthorized horde --

To the line of our dusty foreloopers,
 The Gentlemen Rovers abroad --
Yes, a health to ourselves ere we scatter,
 For the steamer won't wait for the train,
And the Legion that never was listed
 Goes back into quarters again!
 'Regards!
 Goes back under canvas again.
 Hurrah!
 The swag and the billy again.
 Here's how!
 The trail and the packhorse again.
 Salue!
 The trek and the laager again!...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Rhyme of the Three Captains

...s to screen the weight he bore,
And the signals ran for a merchantman from Sandy Hook to the Nore.
He would not fly the Rovers' flag -- the bloody or the black,
But now he floated the Gridiron and now he flaunted the Jack.
He spoke of the Law as he crimped my crew -- he swore it was only a loan;
But when I would ask for my own again, he swore it was none of my own.
He has taken my little parrakeets that nest beneath the Line,
He has stripped my rails of the shaddock-frails an...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Rovers

...Over the fields we go, through the sweets of the purple clover,
That letters a message for us as for every vagrant rover;
Before us the dells are abloom, and a leaping brook calls after,
Feeling its kinship with us in lore of dreams and laughter. 

Out of the valleys of moonlight elfin voices are calling;
Down from the misty hills faint, far greetings are ...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

The Rovers Adieu

...weary lot is thine, fair maid,
A weary lot is thine!
To pull the thorn thy brow to braid,
And press the rue for wine.
A lightsome eye, a soldier's mien,
A feather of the blue,
A doublet of the Lincoln green—
No more of me ye knew,
My Love!
No more of me ye knew.
'This morn is merry June, I trow,
The rose is budding fain;
But she shall bloom in winter snow
...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Travelling Post Office

.... 

The old man's son had left the farm, he found it full and slow, 
He drifted to the great North-west, where all the rovers go. 
"He's gone so long," the old man said, "he's dropped right out of mind, 
But if you'd write a line to him I'd take it very kind; 
He's shearing here and fencing there, a kind of waif and stray-- 
He's droving now with Conroy's sheep along the Castlereagh. 

"The sheep are travelling for the grass, and travelling very slow; 
Tey may be at Mundoora...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

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