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William The Conqueror Poems - Poems about William The Conqueror


When I Am Up - For Mental Health Month
...When I am up, every sky is a boundless, cloudless expanse of brilliantly blinding blue. When I am up, I am William the Conqueror and William Shakespeare and William Jennings Bryan all in one. W......

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Categories: william the conqueror, how i feel, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Blood of An Englishman
...I smell the blood of an Englishman fresh from the womb--- umbilical snip. Ingloriously clad, illegitimate lad, appointed for leadership. I smell the blood of an Englishman, and, lo, his enemie......

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Categories: william the conqueror, baby, family, history, humanity,
Form: Rhyme



Thus Passes By the Glory of the World
...Relics, relics sad and lone, Cromwell's head and a single bone that William the Conqueror left on earth prove today of petty worth. Oh that now those proud in power knew the shortness of their ......

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Categories: william the conqueror, death, power, vanity,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Ancestry Surprises
...The Vikings surviving Travelling fighting All were uniting Ending enlightened invasion surprising England arriving Provided a King Fought and did win The Normandy Vikings My famil......

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Categories: william the conqueror, history,
Form: Rhyme
Three Double-Dactyls
...I. Higgledy piggledy Roger de Coverley Fonder of hoofing it Than of romance Found himself typified Characteristically King of the Reels and the Lord of the Dance. II. Willety wall......

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Categories: william the conqueror, dance, history, humorous, nonsense,
Form: Double Dactyl



Clerihew Review
...CLERIHEW REVIEW Sir Isaac Newton Though genetically close to an Orang Utan With his larger cranial cavity He discovered the law of gravity Atilla the Hun Was a man who liked innocent fun ......

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Categories: william the conqueror, humor,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member The White Lady of Skipsea
... "The White Lady of Skipsea" Last night I dreamt I dreamed of you a kind of dream within a dream Diaphanous, my soul escaped, this firmament, my immaculate heart held hands......

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Categories: william the conqueror, dark, fantasy, gothic, history,
Form: Free verse
Potted Bios of Three English Kings Named William
...Potted Bios of William the Conqueror, William Rufus and William the Fourth First a quick word on Robert the Devil, whose turbulent  life turned out quite a revel. He fathered a child on a poor ......

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Categories: william the conqueror, history, horse,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Billy the Conqueror
...Billy The Conqueror Historians will tell you tales about William the Conqueror in times of old and how he made for himself a terrifying yet interesting name, but the King of all Creation has so ......

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Categories: william the conqueror, appreciation, inspiration, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Is the Picture
...What is the Picture ???, the tapestry that man has weaved, before and throughout recorded history. Of what ?, have we been lead to believe ? For me, it is, it has been an insane mystery !!!, ......

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Categories: william the conqueror, nature, planet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Call La Manche
...Dover’s high Cliffs reach towards the sky. William the Conqueror breached the wall; Spain, France, Germany…these waters held back them all.......

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Categories: william the conqueror, england, hero, history, ocean,
Form: Verse
Tower of London
...Conquering Normans in siege they lay waste to all England to pillage and slay. William the Conqueror rode overland with nobles and ladies of high ranking band. Surveying all territories wit......

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Categories: william the conqueror, england,
Form: Rhyme
William the Conqueror
...I knew a Guillermo or William, who had a liquor-flavored tongue that conquered my mother and peeled her skin. His words were alcoholics on a three day binge, my mother was the house tha......

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Categories: william the conqueror, family, people, mother,
Form: Free verse

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