Famous Vaulting Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Beowulf (Modern English)

...t,
betaught me to a seat with his own sons. (ll. 1999-2013)

“The troop celebrated—never have I seen
under heaven’s vaulting greater mead-joys
of hall-sitters. Sometimes the noted queen,
the peace-pledge between peoples,
went throughout the entire hall, bolstering
the young retainers. Often she gave out writhed rings
to the men, before she went back to her seat.
Sometimes the daughter of Hrothgar bore
the ale-horn to the assembly, the earls at the ends—
I heard th...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,


Denis

...Denis, whose motionable, alert, most vaulting wit 
Caps occasion with an intellectual fit. 
Yet Arthur is a Bowman: his three-heeled timber ’ll hit 
The bald and b?ld bl?nking gold when ?ll ’s d?ne 
Right rooting in the bare butt’s wincing navel in the sight of the sun.
. . . . . . . ....Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Huddersfield - The Second Poetry Capital Of England

...e to head

English, sweating for his OU degree and making us all suffer,

The kids hating his sarcasm and the staff his vaulting ambition

And I was the only one not afraid of him. His Achilles’ heel was

Culture - he was a yob through and through - and the Head said to me

"I’ve had enough of him throwing his weight around, if it comes

To a showdown I’ll back you against him any day" but he got

The degree and the job and the dollars - my old T.C. took him

But that was typ...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

Last Look

...Moon's the one I would recall.

. . . The new Moon fine as pearly clip
From Cleopatra's finger-tip;
. . . The ripe Moon vaulting o'er the trees
As ruddy as a Cheddar cheese;
. . . The late Moon, frail and wanly fair,
Relaxed on silver rocking chair. . . .

But most of all, the Moon intense
With radiant indifference;
So placid, glacid, pure, serene,
Of all perfection proudly Queen. . . .
Oh Mistress Mine, let me adore
Your beauty but one moment more!
One last look . . . Let th...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Ode to Reflection

...ind, 
Save the sad vacuum of the sated mind? 

Borne on the eagle wings of Fame, 
MAN soars above calm Reason's sway, 
"Vaulting AMBITION" mocks each tender claim, 
Plucks the dear bonds of social life away; 
As o'er the vanquish'd slave she wields her spear, 
COMPASSION turns aside---REFLECTlON drops a tear. 

Behold the wretch, whose sordid heart, 
Steep'd in Content's oblivious balm, 
Secure in Luxury's bewitching calm, 
Repels pale Mis'ry's touch, and mocks Affliction's s...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby


The Bird With The Dark Plumes

...to watch her pleasure In a breath of 
 tempest
Breaking the sad promise of spring.
Are these that morose hawk's wings, vaulting, a mere 
 mad swallow's,
The snow-shed peak, the violent precipice?
Poor outlaw that would not value their praise do you 
 prize their blame?
"Their liking" she said "was a long creance,
But let them be kind enough to hate me that opens the 
 sky."
It is almost as foolish my poor falcon
To want hatred as to want love; and harder to win....Read more of this...
by Jeffers, Robinson

The house where I was born (10)

...e.

(I was waking,
I loved those days we had, days preserved
The way a river flows slowly, though already
Caught in the vaulting rumbling of the sea.
They were passing through us, with the majesty of simple things,
The mighty sails of what is were kind enough to take
Precarious human life on board the ship
That the mountain spread out around us.
O memory,
They covered with the flapping of their silence
The sound, of water on the stones, of our voices,
And up ahead, there migh...Read more of this...
by Bonnefoy, Yves

To Brooklyn Bridge

...r.
The City's fiery parcels all undone,
Already snow submerges an iron year . . .

O Sleepless as the river under thee,
Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod,
Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend
And of the curveship lend a myth to God....Read more of this...
by Crane, Hart

Untitled

...rrounding
l'hotel de ville, chattanooga choochoo
choo choing all the way home, upside walls, under gold eagles
& a gold vaulting girl, naked on a rooftop holding a flag over
her head, like skip rope, surrounded by all manner
of saints & gold madmen, riding emblazoned stallions
snorting like crazed demons at their nostrils
the music swirling like a dancing bear
a beautiful girl, flowers in her hair

the air woven with lilting voices in this grand place of parepets
& crowns, je...Read more of this...
by Troupe, Quincy

What Being in Rank-Old Nature

...ring all-surfy seas in; seen
?nderneath, their glassy barrel, of a fairy green.
. . . . . . . . 
Or a jaunting vaunting vaulting assaulting trumpet telling...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

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