Famous Whizzed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Balin and Balan

...mmage buried in the walls 
Might echo, ran the counter path, and found 
His charger, mounted on him and away. 
An arrow whizzed to the right, one to the left, 
One overhead; and Pellam's feeble cry 
'Stay, stay him! he defileth heavenly things 
With earthly uses'--made him quickly dive 
Beneath the boughs, and race through many a mile 
Of dense and open, till his goodly horse, 
Arising wearily at a fallen oak, 
Stumbled headlong, and cast him face to ground. 

Half-wroth he h...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


Banty Time

...that damned glacee.

Lord! how the hot sun went for us,
And br’iled and blistered and burned!
How the Rebel bullets whizzed round us
When a cuss in his death-grip turned!
Till along toward dusk I seen a thing
I couldn’t believe for a spell:
That ******—that Tim—was a crawlin’ to me
Through that fire-proof, gilt-edged hell!
15The Rebels seen him as quick as me,
And the bullets buzzed like bees;
But he jumped for me, and shouldered me,
Though a shot brought him onc...Read more of this...
by Hay, John

Count Eberhard The Groaner Of Wurtembert. A War Song

...cheered thus his knights again--
"My son is like all other men,--
March, children, 'gainst the foe!"

With greater fury whizzed each lance,
Revenge inflamed the blood;
O'er corpses moved the fearful dance
The townsmen fled in random chance
O'er mountain, vale, and flood.

Then back to camp, with trumpet's bray,
We hied in joyful haste;
And wife and child, with roundelay,
With clanging cup and waltzes gay,
Our glorious triumph graced.

And our old Count,--what now does he?
His...Read more of this...
by Schiller, Friedrich von

The Paper Windmill

...a little 
boy
who had only stupid, motionless toys to enjoy.

The little boy clapped his hands, and his eyes danced and whizzed,
for the circling windmills made him dizzy. Closer and 
closer
came the windmill man, and held up his big fan to the little boy
in the window of the Ambassador's house. Only a pane 
of glass
between the boy and the windmills. They slid round before 
his eyes
in rapidly revolving splendour. There were wheels and 
wheels of colours --
big, little, thic...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

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