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Famous Warning Bell Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...helm, 
A young steersman, steering with care. 

A bell through fog on a sea-coast dolefully ringing, 
An ocean-bell—O a warning bell, rock’d by the waves. 

O you give good notice indeed, you bell by the sea-reefs ringing,
Ringing, ringing, to warn the ship from its wreck-place. 

For, as on the alert, O steersman, you mind the bell’s admonition, 
The bows turn,—the freighted ship, tacking, speeds away under her gray sails, 
The beautiful and noble ship, with all her precious...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt



...d and swung, 
And over the waves its warning rung.

When the Rock was hid by the surge’s swell, 
The Mariners heard the warning Bell; 
And then they knew the perilous Rock, 
And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok

The Sun in the heaven was shining gay, 
All things were joyful on that day; 
The sea-birds scream’d as they wheel’d round, 
And there was joyaunce in their sound. 

The buoy of the Inchcpe Bell was seen
A darker speck on the ocean green; 
Sir Ralph the Rover walk’d his ...Read more of this...
by Southey, Robert
...k to flame is blown;
And millions from their silence start,
To claim, without a guide, their own!

Discordant howls the warning bell,
Proclaiming discord wide and far,
And, born but things of peace to tell,
Becomes the ghastliest voice of war:
"Freedom! Equality!"--to blood
Rush the roused people at the sound!
Through street, hall, palace, roars the flood,
And banded murder closes round!
The hyena-shapes (that women were!),
Jest with the horrors they survey;
They hound--they ...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

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