Famous Wimpling Poems by Famous Poets

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

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171. Burlesque Lament fo Wm. Creech's Absence

...him;
Ilk self-conceited critic skellum
 His quill may draw;
He wha could brawlie ward their bellum—
 Willie’s awa!


Up wimpling stately Tweed I’ve sped,
And Eden scenes on crystal Jed,
And Ettrick banks, now roaring red,
 While tempests blaw;
But every joy and pleasure’s fled,
 Willie’s awa!


May I be Slander’s common speech;
A text for Infamy to preach;
And lastly, streekit out to bleach
 In winter snaw;
When I forget thee, Willie Creech,
 Tho’ far awa!


May never wicked ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


230. The Fête Champêtre

...patent bliss,
 To hold a Fête Champêtre.


Then mounted Mirth, on gleesome wing
 O’er hill and dale she flew, man;
Ilk wimpling burn, ilk crystal spring,
 Ilk glen and shaw she knew, man:
She summon’d every social sprite,
 That sports by wood or water,
On th’ bonie banks of Ayr to meet,
 And keep this Fête Champêtre.


Cauld Boreas, wi’ his boisterous crew,
 Were bound to stakes like kye, man,
And Cynthia’s car, o’ silver fu’,
 Clamb up the starry sky, man:
Reflected beams d...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

470. Song—She says she loes me best of a'

...hs amang;
While falling; recalling,
 The amorous thrush concludes his sang;
There, dearest Chloris, wilt thou rove,
 By wimpling burn and leafy shaw,
And hear my vows o’ truth and love,
 And say, thou lo’es me best of a’....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

491. Song—Lassie wi' the Lint-white Locks

...hee,
O wilt thou share its joys wi’ me,
 And say thou’lt be my Dearie, O.
 Lassie wi’ the, &c.


The primrose bank, the wimpling burn,
The cuckoo on the milk-white thorn,
The wanton lambs at early morn,
 Shall welcome thee, my Dearie, O.
 Lassie wi’ the, &c.


And when the welcome simmer shower
Has cheer’d ilk drooping little flower,
We’ll to the breathing woodbine bower,
 At sultry noon, my Dearie, O.
 Lassie wi’ the, &c.


When Cynthia lights, wi’ silver ray,
The weary shea...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

537. Song—O bonie was yon rosy Brier

...rose, how sweet and fair;
But love is far a sweeter flower,
 Amid life’s thorny path o’ care.


The pathless, wild and wimpling burn,
 Wi’ Chloris in my arms, be mine;
And I the warld nor wish nor scorn,
 Its joys and griefs alike resign....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


538. Song—Now Spring has clad the grove in green

...g in nature join
 Their sorrows to forego,
O why thus all alone are mine
 The weary steps o’ woe!


The trout in yonder wimpling burn
 That glides, a silver dart,
And, safe beneath the shady thorn,
 Defies the angler’s art—
My life was ance that careless stream,
 That wanton trout was I;
But Love, wi’ unrelenting beam,
 Has scorch’d my fountains dry.


That little floweret’s peaceful lot,
 In yonder cliff that grows,
Which, save the linnet’s flight, I wot,
 Nae ruder visit kn...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

...they swept with the current,
Then emerged into broad lagoons, where silvery sand-bars
Lay in the stream, and along the wimpling waves of their margin,
Shining with snow-white plumes, large flocks of pelicans waded.
Level the landscape grew, and along the shores of the river,
Shaded by china-trees, in the midst of luxuriant gardens,
Stood the houses of planters, with *****-cabins and dove-cots.
They were approaching the region where reigns perpetual summer,
Where through the ...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Loch Katrine

...scene can surpass in fair Scotland,
It's surrounded by mountains and trees most grand. 
'Tis beautiful to see its tiny wimpling rills,
And the placid Loch in the hollow of a circle of hills,
Glittering like silver in the sun's bright array,
Also many a promontory, little creek, and bay. 

Then away to Loch Katrine in the summer time,
And feast on its scenery most lovely and sublime;
There's no other scene can surpass in fair Scotland,
It's surrounded by mountains and trees m...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

Oban

...ou return by the side of the merry little stream,
That comes trotting down the glen most charming to be seen,
Sometimes wimpling along between heather banks,
And slipping coyly away to hide itself in its merry pranks. 

Then on some pleasant evening walk up the Glen Shellach road,
Where numberless sheep the green hillside often have trod,
And there's a little farmhouse nestling amongst the trees,
And its hazel woods climbing up the brae, shaking in the breeze. 

And Loch Avou...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

Rain on the Hill

...Now on the hill 
The fitful wind is so still 
That never a wimpling mist uplifts,
Nor a trembling leaf drop-laden stirs; 
From the ancient firs 
Aroma of balsam drifts, 
And the silent places are filled 
With elusive odors distilled 
By the rain from asters empearled and frilled, 
And a wild wet savor that dwells 
Far adown in tawny fallows and bracken dells. 

Then with a rush, 
Breaking the beautiful hush 
Where t...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord

...in his riding
 Of the rolling level underneath him steady air, and striding
High there, how he rung upon the rein of a wimpling wing
In his ecstasy! then off, off forth on swing,
 As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend: the hurl and gliding
 Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,--the achieve of; the mastery of the thing!

Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here
 Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion
Tim...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

While the Fates Sleep

...ews the rose-cups fill,
Let us dream dreams again in our blithe quest
O'er whispering wold and hill.
Castles of air yon wimpling valleys keep 
Where milk-white mist steals from the purpling sea,
They shall be ours in the moon's wizardry,
While the fates, wearied, sleep. 

The viewless spirit of the wind will sing
In the soft starshine by the reedy mere,
The elfin harps of hemlock boughs will ring
Fitfully far and near;
The fields will yield their trove of spice and musk,
And ...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

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