Famous Whelms Poems by Famous Poets

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

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201. Birthday Ode for 31st December 1787

...with thundering course,
 The snowy ruin smokes along
 With doubling speed and gathering force,
Till deep it, crushing, whelms the cottage in the vale;
 So Vengeance’ arm, ensanguin’d, strong,
 Shall with resistless might assail,
 Usurping Brunswick’s pride shall lay,
And STEWART’S wrongs and yours, with tenfold weight repay.


 PERDITION, baleful child of night!
 Rise and revenge the injured right
 Of STEWART’S royal race:
 Lead on the unmuzzled hounds of hell,
 Till all the...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


Mazeppa

...
Vain doubt! his swift and savage breed
Had nerved him like the mountain-roe -
Nor faster falls the blinding snow
Which whelms the peasant near the door
Whose threshold he shall cross no more,
Bewildered with the dazzling blast,
Than through the forest-paths he passed -
Untired, untamed, and worse than wild;
All furious as a favoured child
Balked of its wish; or fiercer still 
A woman piqued - who has her will.

XIII

'The wood was passed; 'twas more than noon,
But chill the ...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

Night Hymns on Lake Nipigon

...Bound in the lonely phrases that thrill and falter
Back into quiet.

Back they falter as the deep storm overtakes them,
Whelms them in splendid hollows of booming thunder,
Wraps them in rain, that, sweeping, breaks and onrushes
Ringing like cymbals....Read more of this...
by Scott, Duncan Campbell

The Height of Land

...nge immortal memories?
Or shall he see the sunrise as I see it
In shoals of misty fire the deluge-light
Dashes upon and whelms with purer radiance,
And feel the lulled earth, older in pulse and motion,
Turn the rich lands and inundant oceans
To the flushed color, and hear as now I hear
The thrill of life beat up the planet's margin
And break in the clear susurrus of deep joy
That echoes and reëchoes in my being?
O Life is intuition the measure of knowledge
And do I stand with...Read more of this...
by Scott, Duncan Campbell

The Seasons: Winter

...s,
In one fierce Blast, and o'er th'unhappy Flocks,
Lodg'd in the Hollow of two neighbouring Hills,
The billowy Tempest whelms; till, upwards urg'd,
The Valley to a shining Mountain swells,
That curls its Wreaths amid the freezing Sky.

NOW, all amid the Rigours of the Year,
In the wild Depth of Winter, while without
The ceaseless Winds blow keen, be my Retreat
A rural, shelter'd, solitary, Scene;
Where ruddy Fire, and beaming Tapers join
To chase the chearless Gloom: there l...Read more of this...
by Thomson, James


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