Famous Shingly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Kiama

...surpassing this? 


Kiama slumbers, robed with mist, 
All glittering in the dewy light 
That, brooding o'er 
The shingly shore, 

Lies resting in the arms of Night; 
And foam-flecked crags with surges chill, 
And rocks embraced of cold-lipped spray, 
Are moaning loud where billows crowd 
In angry numbers up the bay. 

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The holy stars come looking down 
On windy heights and swarthy strand, 
And Life and Love - 
The cliffs above - 
Are sitting fondly...Read more of this...
by Kendall, Henry


The Brook

...ted sunbeam dance 
Against my sandy shallows. 

I murmur under moon and stars 
In brambly wildernesses; 
I linger by my shingly bars; 
I loiter round my cresses; 

And out again I curve and flow 
To join the brimming river, 
For men may come and men may go, 
But I go on for ever....Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo

...,
'Will you come and be my wife?'
Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-B?.
'I am tired of living singly,--
'On this coast so wild and shingly,--
'I'm a-weary of my life:
'If you'll come and be my wife,
'Quite serene would be my life!'--
Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-B?,
Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-B?.

IV 

'On this Coast of Coromandel,
'Shrimps and watercresses grow,
'Prawns are plentiful and cheap,'
Said the Yonghy-Bonghy-B?.
'You shall have my chairs and candle,
'And my jug without a handle!--
'Gaz...Read more of this...
by Lear, Edward

The Lady of the Lake

...scream;
     Sounds, too, had come in midnight blast
     Of charging steeds, careering fast
     Along Benharrow's shingly side,
     Where mortal horseman ne'er might ride;
     The thunderbolt had split the pine,—
     All augured ill to Alpine's line.
     He girt his loins, and came to show
     The signals of impending woe,
     And now stood prompt to bless or ban,
     As bade the Chieftain of his clan.
     VIII.

     'T was all prepared;—and from the ...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Marriage Of Geraint

...decay, 
Beyond a bridge that spanned a dry ravine: 
And out of town and valley came a noise 
As of a broad brook o'er a shingly bed 
Brawling, or like a clamour of the rooks 
At distance, ere they settle for the night. 

And onward to the fortress rode the three, 
And entered, and were lost behind the walls. 
'So,' thought Geraint, 'I have tracked him to his earth.' 
And down the long street riding wearily, 
Found every hostel full, and everywhere 
Was hammer laid to hoof, an...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


The Wreck of the Columbine

...till the noble heroine contrived once more to raise herself upon the box. 

Still the Columbine sped on, and ran upon a shingly beach,
And at last the Island of Lepsoe, Miss Mouat did reach,
And she was kindly treated by the inhabitants in everyway that's grand,
And conveyed to Aalesund and there taking steamer to fair England....Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

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