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Famous Wains Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
...ne, undone!
Is there no help, no comfort, —none? 
No gleaning in the wide wheat plains 
Where others drive their loaded wains? 
My vacant days go on, go on.

IX

This Nature, though the snows be down,
Thinks kindly of the bird of June:
The little red hip on the tree
Is ripe for such. What is for me,
Whose days so winterly go on?

X

No bird am I, to sing in June, 
And dare not ask an equal boon. 
Good nests and berries red are Nature's 
To give away to better crea...Read more of this...



by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
...ses.
Shielding the house from storms, on the north, were the barns and the farm-yard,
There stood the broad-wheeled wains and the antique ploughs and the harrows;
There were the folds for the sheep; and there, in his feathered seraglio,
Strutted the lordly turkey, and crowed the cock, with the selfsame
Voice that in ages of old had startled the penitent Peter.
Bursting with hay were the barns, themselves a village. In each one
Far o'er the gable projected a roof o...Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...to, but I've proved it time on ' time,
If you want to change her nature you have got to give her lime!"

Ogier sent his wains to Lewes, twenty hours' solemn walk,
And drew back great abundance of the cool, grey, healing chalk.
And old Hobden spread it broadcast, never heeding what was
 in't.--
Which is why in cleaning ditches, now and then we find a flint.

Ogier died. His sons grew English-Anglo-Saxon was their name--
Till out of blossomed Normandy another pi...Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...ey have sold me seven harvests that I sell to Crowning Tyre;
 "And the Tyrian sweeps the plains
 "With a thousand hired wains,
"And the Cities keep the peace and -- share the hire.

"Hast thou seen the pride of Moab? For the swords about his path,
"His bond is to Philistia, in half of all he hath.
 "And he dare not draw the sword
 "Till Gaza give the word,
"And he show release from Askalon and Gath.

"Wilt thou call again thy peoples, wilt thou craze anew thy King...Read more of this...

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