Famous Wildfire Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Conquistador

...suddenly by the hair; 

The sky was shrill with peril as he passed; 
A hurricane crushed his senses with its din; 
The wildfire crackled up his reeling mast; 
The trumpet of a maelstrom sucked hirn in; 

The desert shrivelled and burnt off his feet; 
His bones and buttons an enormous snake 
Vomited up; still in the shimmering heat 
The pygmies showed him their forbidden lake 

And then transfixed him with their poison darts; 
He married six black virgins in a bunch, 
Who, wh...Read more of this...
by Hope, Alec Derwent (A D)


That Nature Is A Heraclitean Fire And Of The Comfort Of The Resurrection

...y foundering deck shone
A beacon, an eternal beam. ' Flesh fade, and mortal trash
Fall to the residuary worm; ' world's wildfire, leave but ash:
 In a flash, at a trumpet crash,
I am all at once what Christ is, ' since he was what I am, and
This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, ' patch, matchwood, immortal diamond,
 Is immortal diamond....Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

The Princess (part 5)

...ay sit 
Upon a king's right hand in thunder-storms, 
And breed up warriors! See now, though yourself 
Be dazzled by the wildfire Love to sloughs 
That swallow common sense, the spindling king, 
This Gama swamped in lazy tolerance. 
When the man wants weight, the woman takes it up, 
And topples down the scales; but this is fixt 
As are the roots of earth and base of all; 
Man for the field and woman for the hearth: 
Man for the sword and for the needle she: 
Man with the head ...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung (excerpt)

...Sting of the Sleepful Thorn!'

'So I came to the head of Hindfell and the ruddy shields and white,
And the wall of the wildfire wavering around the isle of night;
And there the Sleep-thorn pierced me, and the slumber on me fell,
And the night of nameless sorrows that hath no tale to tell.
Now I am she that loveth; and the day is nigh at hand
When I, who have ridden the sea-realm and the regions of the land,
And dwelt in the measureless mountains and the forge of stormy days,...Read more of this...
by Morris, William

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