Famous Vaulted Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Balin and Balan

...Or devil or man 
Guard thou thine head.' Sir Balin spake not word, 
But snatched a sudden buckler from the Squire, 
And vaulted on his horse, and so they crashed 
In onset, and King Pellam's holy spear, 
Reputed to be red with sinless blood, 
Redded at once with sinful, for the point 
Across the maiden shield of Balan pricked 
The hauberk to the flesh; and Balin's horse 
Was wearied to the death, and, when they clashed, 
Rolling back upon Balin, crushed the man 
Inward, and e...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


Comus

...the vocal air
To testify his hidden residence.
How sweetly did they float upon the wings
Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night,
At every fall smoothing the raven down
Of darkness till it smiled! I have oft heard
My mother Circe with the Sirens three,
Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades,
Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs,
Who, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul,
And lap it in Elysium: Scylla wept,
And chid her barking waves into attention,
And fell Cha...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Endymion: Book I

...visions stare:
After the Argonauts, in blind amaze
Tossing about on Neptune's restless ways,
Until, from the horizon's vaulted side,
There shot a golden splendour far and wide,
Spangling those million poutings of the brine
With quivering ore: 'twas even an awful shine
From the exaltation of Apollo's bow;
A heavenly beacon in their dreary woe.
Who thus were ripe for high contemplating,
Might turn their steps towards the sober ring
Where sat Endymion and the aged priest
'Mong ...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

Endymion: Book II

...n thousand jutting shapes,
Half seen through deepest gloom, and griesly gapes,
Blackening on every side, and overhead
A vaulted dome like Heaven's, far bespread
With starlight gems: aye, all so huge and strange,
The solitary felt a hurried change
Working within him into something dreary,--
Vex'd like a morning eagle, lost, and weary,
And purblind amid foggy, midnight wolds.
But he revives at once: for who beholds
New sudden things, nor casts his mental slough?
Forth from a ru...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

Endymion: Book III

...sweetly from her dream,
They led on first, bent to her meek surprise,
Through portal columns of a giant size,
Into the vaulted, boundless emerald.
Joyous all follow'd, as the leader call'd,
Down marble steps; pouring as easily
As hour-glass sand--and fast, as you might see
Swallows obeying the south summer's call,
Or swans upon a gentle waterfall.

 Thus went that beautiful multitude, nor far,
Ere from among some rocks of glittering spar,
Just within ken, they saw descending...Read more of this...
by Keats, John


Eviradnus

...ign to Zeno, who with speed 
 Looked back. Then seemed they changed to stone indeed. 
 For both perceived that in the vaulted hall 
 One of the grand old knights ranged by the wall 
 Descended from his horse. Like phantom he 
 Moved with a horrible tranquillity. 
 Masked by his helm towards them he came; his tread 
 Made the floor tremble—and one might have said 
 A spirit of th' abyss was here; between 
 Them and the pit he came—a barrier seen; 
 Then said, with sw...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

Gareth And Lynette

...us king. 

Then into hall Gareth ascending heard 
A voice, the voice of Arthur, and beheld 
Far over heads in that long-vaulted hall 
The splendour of the presence of the King 
Throned, and delivering doom--and looked no more-- 
But felt his young heart hammering in his ears, 
And thought, 'For this half-shadow of a lie 
The truthful King will doom me when I speak.' 
Yet pressing on, though all in fear to find 
Sir Gawain or Sir Modred, saw nor one 
Nor other, but in all the ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

Hyperion

...s here!"

 All eyes were on Enceladus's face,
And they beheld, while still Hyperion's name
Flew from his lips up to the vaulted rocks,
A pallid gleam across his features stern:
Not savage, for he saw full many a God
Wroth as himself. He look'd upon them all,
And in each face he saw a gleam of light,
But splendider in Saturn's, whose hoar locks
Shone like the bubbling foam about a keel
When the prow sweeps into a midnight cove.
In pale and silver silence they remain'd,
Till su...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

Lara

...of a purple hue, 
Then deeply disappear'd: the horseman gazed 
Till ebb'd the latest eddy it had raised; 
Then turning, vaulted on his pawing steed, 
And instant spurr'd him into panting speed. 
His face was mask'd — the features of the dead, 
If dead it were, escaped the observer's dread; 
But if in sooth a star its bosom bore, 
Such is the badge that knighthood ever wore, 
And such 'tis known Sir Ezzelin had worn 
Upon the night that led to such a morn. 
If thus he perish'd...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

Last Instructions to a Painter

...lora is the spring, 
Bacchus is wine, the country is the King.) 

Not so does rust insinuating wear, 
Nor powder so the vaulted bastion tear, 
Nor earthquake so an hollow isle o'er whelm 
As scratching courtiers undermine a realm, 
And through the palace's foundations bore, 
Burrowing themselves to hoard their guilty store. 
The smallest vermin make the greatest waste, 
And a poor warren once a city rased. 

But they, whom born to virtue and to wealth, 
Nor guilt to flattery ...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

Ode To Silence

...h,
And trod by pensive feet
From perfect clusters ripened without haste
Out of the urgent heat
In some clear glimmering vaulted twilight under the odorous vine

. Lift up your lyres! Sing on!
But as for me, I seek your sister whither she is gone....Read more of this...
by St. Vincent Millay, Edna

Ode to the Moon

...silent air,
As he pens his fleecy care,
Or plods with saunt'ring gait, the dewy meads along. 

CHASTE ORB! as thro' the vaulted sky
Feath'ry clouds transparent sail; 
When thy languid, weeping eye,
Sheds its soft tears upon the painted vale; 
As I ponder o'er the floods,
Or tread with listless step, th'embow'ring woods,
O, let thy transitory beam,
Soothe my sad mind, with FANCY'S aëry dream. 

Wrapt in REFLECTION, let me trace 
O'er the vast ethereal space, 
Stars, whose twin...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

Paradise Lost: Book 01

...steps 
Over the burning marl, not like those steps 
On Heaven's azure; and the torrid clime 
Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire. 
Nathless he so endured, till on the beach 
Of that inflamed sea he stood, and called 
His legions--Angel Forms, who lay entranced 
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks 
In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades 
High over-arched embower; or scattered sedge 
Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed 
Hath vexed the Red-Sea coast...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Paris

...is gray and void in the vast gulf of memory, 
Green islands of delight shall be all blessed moments so enjoyed: 


When vaulted with the city skies, on its cathedral floors you stood, 
And, priest of a bright brotherhood, performed the mystic sacrifice, 


At Love's high altar fit to stand, with fire and incense aureoled, 
The celebrant in cloth of gold with Spring and Youth on either hand. 

III 


Choral Song 


Have ye gazed on its grandeur 
Or stood where it stands 
With ...Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan

The Dreamer

...one,
Within a dungeon, dark and foul he lay,
With chains that bit and festered to the bone.
They haled him harshly to a vaulted room,
Where One gazed on him with malignant eye;
And in that devil-face he read his doom,
Knowing that ere the dawn-light he must die.
Well, he was sorrow-glutted; let them bring
Their prize assassins to the bloody work.
His kingdom lost, yet would he die a King,
Fearless and proud, as when he faced the Turk.
Ah God! the glory of that great Crusade!
...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Last Tournament

...ned, 
Mid-forest, and the wind among the boughs. 
He whistled his good warhorse left to graze 
Among the forest greens, vaulted upon him, 
And rode beneath an ever-showering leaf, 
Till one lone woman, weeping near a cross, 
Stayed him. `Why weep ye?' `Lord,' she said, `my man 
Hath left me or is dead;' whereon he thought-- 
`What, if she hate me now? I would not this. 
What, if she love me still? I would not that. 
I know not what I would'--but said to her, 
`Yet weep not th...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Pleasures of Melancholy

...me plain.
Unbounded waste! the mouldering obelisk
Here, like a blasted oak, ascends the clouds;
Here Parian domes their vaulted halls disclose
Horrid with thorn, where lurks th' unpitying thief,
Whence flits the twilight-loving bat at eve,
And the deaf adder wreaths her spotted train,
The dwellings once of elegance and art.
Here temples rise, amid whose hallow'd bounds
Spires the black pine, while through the naked street ,
Once haunt of tradeful merchants, springs the grass:...Read more of this...
by Warton, Thomas

The Princess (part 5)

...crumpled than a poppy from the sheath, 
And all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. 
Then some one sent beneath his vaulted palm 
A whispered jest to some one near him, 'Look, 
He has been among his shadows.' 'Satan take 
The old women and their shadows! (thus the King 
Roared) make yourself a man to fight with men. 
Go: Cyril told us all.' 
As boys that slink 
From ferule and the trespass-chiding eye, 
Away we stole, and transient in a trice 
From what was left of faded ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Rape of the Lock

...rvive,
And burn in Cupid's Flames,---but burn alive.

Restore the Lock! she cries; and all around
Restore the Lock! the vaulted Roofs rebound.
Not fierce Othello in so loud a Strain
Roar'd for the Handkerchief that caus'd his Pain.
But see how oft Ambitious Aims are cross'd,
And Chiefs contend 'till all the Prize is lost!
The Lock, obtain'd with Guilt, and kept with Pain,
In ev'ry place is sought, but sought in vain: 
With such a Prize no Mortal must be blest,
So Heav'n decre...Read more of this...
by Pope, Alexander

The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence

...ns,
The night never withdrawing its dark virtue
>From the harbor shaped as a heart,
The sea pulsing as a heart,
The sky vaulted as a heart,
Where I know the light will shatter like a cry
Above a discovery:
"Emptiness.
Emptiness! Look!"
Look. This is the morning....Read more of this...
by Merwin, W S

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