Famous Whirred Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Hermit

by Aleister Crowley
 AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT

[Dedicated to George Cecil Jones]


At last an end of all I hoped and feared!
Muttered the hermit through his elfin beard.

Then what art thou? the evil whisper whirred.
I doubt me soerly if the hermit heard.

To all God's questions never a word he said,
But simply shook his venerable head.

God sent all plagues; he laughed and heeded not,
Till people...Read more of this...

A Humble Heroine

by William Topaz McGonagall
 'Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the Peninsular War,
That a Mrs Reston for courage outshone any man there by far;
She was the wife of a Scottish soldier in Matagarda Port,
And to attend to her husband she there did resort. 

'Twas in the Spring of the year 1810,
That General Sir Thomas Graham occupied Matagarda with 150 men;
These consisted of...Read more of this...

The Paper Windmill

by Amy Lowell
 The little boy pressed his face against the window-pane 
and looked out
at the bright sunshiny morning. The cobble-stones of 
the square
glistened like mica. In the trees, a breeze danced and 
pranced,
and shook drops of sunlight like falling golden coins into the brown 
water
of the canal. Down stream slowly drifted a long string 
of galliots
piled with crimson cheeses. The little...Read more of this...

The Flight

by Rudyard Kipling
 1930

When the grey geese heard the Fool's tread
 Too near to where they lay,
They lifted neither voice nor head,
 But took themselves away.

No water broke, no pinion whirred-
 There went no warning call.
The steely, sheltering rushes stirred
 A little--that was all.

Only the osiers understood,
 And the drowned meadows spied
What else than wreckage of a flood
 Stole outward on that...Read more of this...

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