Famous Thralls Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Marching Song

by Algernon Charles Swinburne
 We mix from many lands,
We march for very far;
In hearts and lips and hands
Our staffs and weapons are;
The light we walk in darkens sun and moon and star.

It doth not flame and wane
With years and spheres that roll,
Storm cannot shake nor stain
The strength that makes it whole,
The fire that moulds and moves it of the sovereign soul.

We are they...Read more of this...

Sapphic Fragment

by Thomas Hardy
 "Thou shalt be--Nothing."--Omar Khayyam. 
"Tombless, with no remembrance."--W. Shakespeare. 

Dead shalt thou lie; and nought 
 Be told of thee or thought, 
For thou hast plucked not of the Muses' tree: 
 And even in Hades' halls 
 Amidst thy fellow-thralls 
No friendly shade thy shade shall company!...Read more of this...

In Harbour

by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us
As mourners clothed with regret for the life gone by;
To the waters of gloom whence winds of the dayspring float us
Goodnight and goodbye.

A time is for mourning, a season for grief to sigh;
But were we not fools and blind, by day to devote us
As thralls to the darkness, unseen of...Read more of this...

Visions of the worlds vanitie

by Edmund Spenser
 One day, whiles that my daylie cares did sleepe,
My spirit, shaking off her earthly prison,
Began to enter into meditation deepe
Of things exceeding reach of common reason;
Such as this age, in which all good is geason,
And all that humble is and meane debaced,
Hath brought forth in her last declining season,
Griefe of good mindes, to see goodnesse disgraced.
On which when as...Read more of this...

Thou Art Indeed Just Lord If I Contend

by Gerard Manley Hopkins
 Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum: 
verumtamen justa loquar ad te: 
Quare via impiorum prosperatur? &c.


Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.
Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must
Disappointment all I endeavour end? 

 Wert thou my enemy, O thou my friend,
How wouldst thou worse, I wonder,...Read more of this...

Sonnet XXXI

by Edmund Spenser
 Ah why hath nature to so hard a hart,
giuen so goodly giftes of beauties grace?
whose pryde depraues each other better part,
and all those pretious ornaments deface.
Sith to all other beastes of bloody race,
a dreadfull countenaunce she giuen hath:
that with theyr terrour al the rest may chace,
and warne to shun the daunger of theyr wrath.
But my proud one doth worke...Read more of this...

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