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Famous Volleyed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...wire bloom lilies of the vale. 
You who love flowers, take these; their fragile bells 
Have trembled with the shock of volleyed shells, 
And in black nights when stealthy foes advance 
They have been lit by the pale rockets' glow 
That o'er scarred fields and ancient towns laid low 
Trace in white fire the brave frontiers of France....Read more of this...
by Seeger, Alan



...Sidling upon the river, the white boat
Has volleyed with its cannon all the morning,
Shaken the shore towns like a Judgment warning,
Telling the palsied water its demand
That the crime come to the top again, and float,
That the sunk murder rise to the light and land.

Blam! In the noon's perfected brilliance burn
Brief blooms of flame, which soil away in smoke;
And down below, where slowed concussion...Read more of this...
by Wilbur, Richard
...ley of Death 
Rode the six hundred. 

Cannon to right of them, 
Cannon to left of them, 
Cannon in front of them 
Volleyed and thundered; 
Stormed at with shot and shell, 
Boldly they rode and well, 
Into the jaws of Death, 
Into the mouth of Hell 
Rode the six hundred. 

Flashed all their sabres bare, 
Flashed as they turned in air 
Sabring the gunners there, 
Charging an army, while 
All the world wondered: 
Plunged in the battery-smoke 
Right through the...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

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