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Famous Spurring Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Horace,
...the foes,
     And a great shout of laughter
          From all the vanguard rose:
     And forth three chiefs came spurring
          Before that deep array;
     To earth they sprang, their swords they drew,
     And lifted high their shields, and flew
          To win the narrrow way;

               XXXVII

     Aunus from green Tifernum,
          Lord of the Hill of Vines;
     And Seius, whose eight hundred slaves
          Sicken in Ilva's mines;
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by Byron, George (Lord)
...mule, and mounts his horse, 
And through the street directs his course; 
Through the street of Zacatin 
To the Alhambra spurring in.
Woe is me, Alhama!

When the Alhambra walls he gain'd, 
On the moment he ordain'd
That the trumpet straight should sound 
With the silver clarion round.
Woe is me, Alhamal

And when the hollow drums of war 
Beat the loud alarm afar, 
That the Moors of town and plain 
Might answer to the martial strain.
Woe is me, Alhama!

Then the Mo...Read more of this...

by Shakespeare, William
...provoke him on
That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide,
Which heavily he answers with a groan,
More sharp to me than spurring to his side;
For that same groan doth put this in my mind:
My grief lies onward and my joy behind....Read more of this...

by Shakespeare, William
...provoke him on
That sometimes anger thrusts into his hide;
Which heavily he answers with a groan,
More sharp to me than spurring to his side;
For that same groan doth put this in my mind;
My grief lies onward and my joy behind....Read more of this...

by McGonagall, William Topaz
..., alas, brave General Symons now is dead. 

Oh! It was a most inspiring and a magnificent sight,
To see the Hussars spurring their steeds with all their might;
And charging the Boers with their lances of steel,
Which hurled them from their saddles and made them reel. 

The battle raged for six hours and more,
While British cannon Smith's Hill up tore;
Still the Boers fought manfully, without dismay,
But in a short time they had to give way. 

For the Gordon Highla...Read more of this...



by Hugo, Victor
...andits gayly drink, 
 Upon the haunted highway, sharp hoof-beats loudly clink? 
 Yea; past scant-buried victims, hard-spurring sturdy steed, 
 A mute and grisly rider is trampling grass and weed, 
 And by the black-sealed warrant which in his grasp shines clear, 
 I known it is the Future—God's Justicer is here! 


 




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by Scott, Sir Walter
...he elemental rage,
     Again they hurried to engage;
     But, ere they closed in desperate fight,
     Bloody with spurring came a knight,
     Sprung from his horse, and from a crag
     Waved 'twixt the hosts a milk-white flag.
     Clarion and trumpet by his side
     Rung forth a truce-note high and wide,
     While, in the Monarch's name, afar
     A herald's voice forbade the war,
     For Bothwell's lord and Roderick bold
     Were both, he said, in captiv...Read more of this...

by Byron, George (Lord)
...mule, and mounts his horse, 
And through the street directs his course; 
Through the street of Zacatin 
To the Alhambra spurring in.
Woe is me, Alhama!

When the Alhambra walls he gain'd, 
On the moment he ordain'd
That the trumpet straight should sound 
With the silver clarion round.
Woe is me, Alhamal

And when the hollow drums of war 
Beat the loud alarm afar, 
That the Moors of town and plain 
Might answer to the martial strain.
Woe is me, Alhama!

Then the Mo...Read more of this...

by Byron, George (Lord)
...of heart 
As any chief that ever stood 
Triumphant in the fields of blood; 
From post to post, and deed to deed, 
Fast spurring on his reeking steed, 
Where sallying ranks the trench assail, 
And make the foremost Moslem quail; 
Or where the battery, guarded well, 
Remains as yet impregnable, 
Alighting cheerly to inspire 
The soldier slackening in his fire; 
The first and freshest of the host 
Which Stamboul's Sultan there can boast 
To guide the follower o'er the field, 
T...Read more of this...

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