Famous Wapentake Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Wapentake poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous wapentake poems. These examples illustrate what a famous wapentake poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
...To Alfred Tennyson
Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine;
Not as a knight, who on the listed field
Of tourney touched his adversary's shield
In token of defiance, but in sign
Of homage to the mastery, which is thine,
In English song; nor will I keep concealed,
And voiceless as a rivulet frost-congealed,
My admiration for thy verse divine.
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