Famous Sheering Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Sheering poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous sheering poems. These examples illustrate what a famous sheering poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...the filmy drift
Nor draughty currents buoy
Our whim to its bent, nor lift
Our heart to the height of its joy.
When sheering down to the Line
Come polar tides from the North,
Thy silver folk of the brine
Must glimmer and forth.
Down in the crumbling mill
Grinding eternally,
We are the type of thy will
To the tribes of the sea.
II
Soul, what art thou in the tribes of the air
Lord, said a butterfly,
Out of a creeping thing,
For days in the dust put by,
The spr...Read more of this...
by
Carman, Bliss
...wave of all her waves
But marks our English dead:
We have strawed our best to the weed's unrest,
To the shark and the sheering gull.
If blood be the price of admiralty,
Lord God, we ha' paid in tull!
There's never a flood goes shoreward now
But lifts a keel we manned;
There's never an ebb goes seaward now
But drops our dead on the sand --
But slinks our dead on the sands forlore,
From the Ducies to the Swin.
If blood be the price of admiralty,
If blood be the price of ...Read more of this...
by
Kipling, Rudyard
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