Famous Virginian Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Virginian poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous virginian poems. These examples illustrate what a famous virginian poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Smart, Christopher
...from the inward pith of the breadtree. The Lord Jesus strengthen my whole body.
Let Chelal rejoice with Apios Virginian Liquorice Vetch.
Let Miamin rejoice with Mezereon. God be gracious to Polly and Bess and all Canbury.
Let Zebida rejoice with Tormentil good for hæmorrhages in the mouth even so Lord Jesus.
Let Shemaria rejoice with Riciasides.
Let Jadau rejoice with Flixweed.
Let Shimeon rejoice with Squills.
Let Sheal rejoi...Read more of this...
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Whitman, Walt
...e—a sleeping lake, or still bayou;
O my heart! O tender and fierce pangs—I can stand them not—I will depart;
O to be a Virginian, where I grew up! O to be a Carolinian!
O longings irrepressible! O I will go back to old Tennessee, and never wander more!...Read more of this...
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Whitman, Walt
...erienced sisters!
Far breath’d land! Arctic braced! Mexican breez’d! the diverse! the
compact!
The Pennsylvanian! the Virginian! the double Carolinian!
O all and each well-loved by me! my intrepid nations! O I at any rate include
you all with perfect love!
I cannot be discharged from you! not from one, any sooner than another!
O Death! O for all that, I am yet of you, unseen, this hour, with irrepressible
love,
Walking New England, a friend, a traveler,
Splashing my b...Read more of this...
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Drayton, Michael
...You brave heroic minds,
Worthy your country's name,
That honour still pursue,
Go, and subdue,
Whilst loit'ring hinds
Lurke here at home with shame.
Britons, you stay too long,
Quickly aboard bestow you;
And with a merry gale
Swell your stretched sail,
With vows as strong
As the winds that blow you.
Your course securely steer,
West and by South fo...Read more of this...
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Chesterton, G K
...ied prince of Colchester,
Growing more gay with age and with long days
Deeper in laughter and desire of life
As that Virginian climber on our walls
Flames scarlet with the fading of the year;
Called for his wassail and that other weed
Virginian also, from the western woods
Where English Raleigh checked the boast of Spain,
And lighting joy with joy, and piling up
Pleasure as crown for pleasure, bade me bring
Those three, the minstrels whose emblazoned coats
Shone wi...Read more of this...
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