Famous Xix Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Song To David

...epends; 
From Whose right arm, beneath Whose eyes, 
All period, pow'r, and enterprise 
 Commences, reigns, and ends. 

 XIX 
Angels—their ministry and meed, 
Which to and fro with blessings speed, 
 Or with their citherns wait; 
Where Michael with his millions bows, 
Where dwells the seraph and his spouse 
 The cherub and her mate. 

 XX 
O David, scholar of the Lord! 
Of God and Love—the Saint elect 
 For infinite applause— 
To rule the land, and briny broad, 
To be laboriou...Read more of this...
by Smart, Christopher


Astrophel and Stella

...y course to lose myself doth bend;
I see: and yet no greater sorrow take
Than that I lose no more for Stellas sake. 
XIX 

On Cupids bowe how are my heart-strings bent,
That see my wracke, and yet embrace the same!
When most I glory, then I feele most shame;
I willing run, yet while I run repent;
My best wits still their own disgrace inuent:
My very inke turns straight to Stellas name;
And yet my words, as them my pen doth frame,
Auise them selues that they are va...Read more of this...
by Sidney, Sir Philip

Beowulf (Old English)

...ome, or harrying, which it were,
even as oft as evil threatened
their sovran king. -- They were clansmen good.



XIX

THEN sank they to sleep. With sorrow one bought
his rest of the evening, -- as ofttime had happened
when Grendel guarded that golden hall,
evil wrought, till his end drew nigh,
slaughter for sins. ’Twas seen and told
how an avenger survived the fiend,
as was learned afar. The livelong time
after that grim fight, Grendel’s mother,
monster of wo...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Bride of Abydos The

...hat more than feeling — I was Free! 
Ev'n for thy presence ceased to pine; 
The World — nay — Heaven itself was mine! 

XIX. 

"The shallop of a trusty Moor 
Convey'd me from this idle shore; 
I long'd to see the isles that gem 
Old Ocean's purple diadem: 
I sought by turns, and saw them all: [34] 
But when and where I join'd the crew, 
With whom I'm pledged to rise or fall, 
When all that we design to do 
Is done, 'twill then be time more meet 
To tell thee, when the tale's ...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

By The Fire-Side

...on-wise
Set over the porch, Art's early wont:
'Tis John in the Desert, I surmise,
But has borne the weather's brunt---

XIX.

Not from the fault of the builder, though,
For a pent-house properly projects
Where three carved beams make a certain show,
Dating---good thought of our architect's---
'Five, six, nine, he lets you know.

XX.

And all day long a bird sings there,
And a stray sheep drinks at the pond at times;
The place is silent and aware;
It has had its scenes, its jo...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


Custer

...he plains.
The breast that knows no conscience yields to fear, 
Strike! let the Indian meet his master now and here, 


XIX.
With thoughts like these was Custer's mind engaged.
The gentlest are the sternest when enraged.
All felt the swift contagion of his ire, 
For he was one who could arouse and fire
The coldest heart, so ardent was his own.
His fearless eye, his calm intrepid tone, 
Bespoke the leader, strong with conscious power, 
Whom following friends will bless, while ...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Isabella or The Pot of Basil

...these money-bags see east and west?--
Yet so they did--and every dealer fair
Must see behind, as doth the hunted hare.

XIX.
O eloquent and famed Boccaccio!
Of thee we now should ask forgiving boon,
And of thy spicy myrtles as they blow,
And of thy roses amorous of the moon,
And of thy lilies, that do paler grow
Now they can no more hear thy ghittern's tune,
For venturing syllables that ill beseem
The quiet glooms of such a piteous theme.

XX.
Grant thou a pardon here, and th...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

Lara

...not of the head, but heart; 
And rarely wander'd in his speech, or drew 
His thoughts so forth as to offend the view. 

XIX. 

With all that chilling mystery of mien, 
And seeming gladness to remain unseen, 
He had (if 'twere not nature's boon) an art 
Of fixing memory on another's heart: 
It was not love, perchance — nor hate — nor aught 
That words can image to express the thought; 
But they who saw him did not see in vain, 
And once beheld, would ask of him again: 
And tho...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

Mary - A Ballad

...hem in safety pass on by her side,
She seizes the hat, fear her courage supplied,
And fast thro' the Abbey she flies.


XIX.

She ran with wild speed, she rush'd in at the door,
She gazed horribly eager around,
Then her limbs could support their faint burthen no more,
And exhausted and breathless she sunk on the floor
Unable to utter a sound.


XX.

Ere yet her pale lips could the story impart,
For a moment the hat met her view;--
Her eyes from that object convulsively start,...Read more of this...
by Southey, Robert

Mazeppa

...curdling o'er
My heart, and sparks that crossed my brain 
A gasp, a throb, a start of pain,
A sigh, and nothing more.

XIX

'I woke - where was I? - Do I see
A human face look down on me?
And doth a roof above me close?
Do these limbs on a couch repose?
Is this a chamber where I lie
And is it mortal yon bright eye,
That watches me with gentle glance?
I closed my own again once more,
As doubtful that the former trance
Could not as yet be o'er.
A slender girl, long-haired, and...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

Old Pictures In Florence

...,
Man's face, have no more play and action
Than joy which is crystallized for ever,
Or grief, an eternal petrifaction?

XIX.

On which I conclude, that the early painters,
To cries of ``Greek Art and what more wish you?''---
Replied, ``To become now self-acquainters,
``And paint man man, whatever the issue!
``Make new hopes shine through the flesh they fray,
``New fears aggrandize the rags and tatters:
``To bring the invisible full into play!
``Let the visible go to the dogs-...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

Pickthorn Manor

...pprehensive longing. At
Their feet the river swirled and chucked. They sat
An hour there. The thrush flew to 
and fro.

XIX
The Lady Eunice supped alone that day, As 
always since Sir Everard had gone,
In the oak-panelled parlour, whose array Of faded portraits 
in carved mouldings shone.
Warriors and ladies, armoured, ruffed, peruked. Van Dykes with 
long, slim fingers; Holbeins, stout
And heavy-featured; and one Rubens dame, A 
peony just burst out,
With flaunting, crimson ...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

Resolution And Independence

...h them on every side; 
But they have dwindled long by slow decay; 
Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may." 

XIX 

While he was talking thus, the lonely place, 
The old Man's shape, and speech--all troubled me: 
In my mind's eye I seemed to see him pace 
About the weary moors continually, 
Wandering about alone and silently. 
While I these thoughts within myself pursued, 
He, having made a pause, the same discourse renewed. 

XX 

And soon with this he other matter...Read more of this...
by Wordsworth, William

The Bride of Abydos

...hat more than feeling — I was Free! 
Ev'n for thy presence ceased to pine; 
The World — nay — Heaven itself was mine! 

XIX. 

"The shallop of a trusty Moor 
Convey'd me from this idle shore; 
I long'd to see the isles that gem 
Old Ocean's purple diadem: 
I sought by turns, and saw them all: [34] 
But when and where I join'd the crew, 
With whom I'm pledged to rise or fall, 
When all that we design to do 
Is done, 'twill then be time more meet 
To tell thee, when the tale's ...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The Lady of the Lake

...f the mountain tongue,—-
     Those silver sounds, so soft, so dear,
     The listener held his breath to hear!
     XIX.

     A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid;
     Her satin snood, her silken plaid,
     Her golden brooch, such birth betrayed.
     And seldom was a snood amid
     Such wild luxuriant ringlets hid,
     Whose glossy black to shame might bring
     The plumage of the raven's wing;
     And seldom o'er a breast so fair
     Mantled a plaid ...Read more of this...
by Scott, Sir Walter

The Negro Girl

...sands to mourn?
"No ! ZELMA is not left, for she will prove
"In the deep troubled main, her fond--her faithful LOVE."


XIX. 

The lab'ring Ship was now a wreck,
The shrouds were flutt'ring wide!
The rudder gone, the lofty deck
Was rock'd from side to side--
Poor ZELMA'S eyes now dropp'd their last big tear,
While, from her tawny cheek, the blood recoil'd with fear.


XX. 

Now frantic, on the sands she roam'd,
Now shrieking stop'd to view
Where high the liquid mountains foam...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

...e Doorways are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his Hour or two and went his way. 

XIX.
They say the Lion and the Lizard keep
The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep:
And Bahram, that great Hunter -- the Wild Ass
Stamps o'er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep. 

XX.
I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head....Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

The Thorn

...; And, as I am a man,  Instead of jutting crag, I found  A woman seated on the ground. XIX.   I did not speak—I saw her face,  In truth it was enough for me;  I turned about and heard her cry,  "O misery! O misery!"  And there she sits, until the moon  Through half the clear blue sky will go,  And when the little breezes make  The waters of the pond to shak...Read more of this...
by Wordsworth, William

The Vision of Judgment

...here had a tussle, 
And ne'er would have got into heaven's good graces, 
Had he not flung his head in all our faces. 

XIX 

'He was, if I remember, king of France; 
That head of his, which could not keep a crown 
On earth, yet ventured in my face to advance 
A claim to those of martyrs — like my own: 
If I had had my sword, as I had once 
When I cut ears off, I had cut him down; 
But having but my keys, and not my brand, 
I only knock'd his head from out his hand. 

XX 

'A...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The White Cliffs

...rdinand dies? One of them said: 
This might be serious.' 'Yes, you're right.' 
The other answered, 'It really might.' 

XIX 
Dear John: I'm going home. I write to say 
Goodbye. My boat-train leaves at break of day; 
It will be gone when this is in your hands. 
I've had enough of lovely foreign lands, 
Sightseeing, strangers, holiday and play; 
I'm going home to those who think the way
I think, and speak as I do. Will you try 
To understand that this must be good-bye? 
We both...Read more of this...
by Miller, Alice Duer

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