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Famous Warding Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...in the fen:
no further for me need’st food prepare!
To Hygelac send, if Hild {6d} should take me,
best of war-weeds, warding my breast,
armor excellent, heirloom of Hrethel
and work of Wayland. {6e} Fares Wyrd {6f} as she must.”



VII

HROTHGAR spake, the Scyldings’-helmet: --
“For fight defensive, Friend my Beowulf,
to succor and save, thou hast sought us here.
Thy father’s combat {7a} a feud enkindled
when Heatholaf with hand he slew
among the Wylfings; his...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,



...ousand winter gales,
Not only to the market-cross were known,
But in the leafy lanes behind the down,
Far as the portal-warding lion-whelp,
And peacock-yewtree of the lonely Hall,
Whose Friday fare was Enoch's ministering. 

Then came a change, as all things human change.
Ten miles to northward of the narrow port
Open'd a larger haven: thither used
Enoch at times to go by land or sea;
And once when there, and clambering on a mast
In harbor, by mischance he slipt and fell:
A l...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...g cold
Where none may see and none shall pass.
The daisies quicken in the mold,
And richer fares the meadow grass.

The warding cypress pleads the skies,
The mound goes level in the rain.
My love all cold and silent lies-
Pray God it will not rise again!...Read more of this...
by Parker, Dorothy

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