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Famous Abit Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Kipling, Rudyard
...along, 
An' when they ain't, pretendin' they are good? 

In cash or credit—no, it aren't no good; 
You've to 'ave the 'abit or you'd die, 
Unless you lived your life but one day long, 
Nor didn't prophesy nor fret at all, 
But drew your tucker some'ow from the world, 
An' never bothered what you might ha' done. 

But, Gawd, what things are they I'aven't done? 
I've turned my 'and to most, an' turned it good, 
In various situations round the world 
For 'im that doth not w...Read more of this...



by Kipling, Rudyard
...along,
An' when they ain't, pretendin' they are good?

In cash or credit -- no, it aren't no good;
You've to 'ave the 'abit or you'd die,
Unless you lived your life but one day long,
Nor didn't prophesy nor fret at all,
But drew your tucker some'ow from the world,
An' never bothered what you might ha' done.

But, Gawd, what things are they I'aven't done?
I've turned my 'and to most, an' turned it good,
In various situations round the world
For 'im that doth not work must...Read more of this...

by Brooke, Rupert
...h! bitter thoughts I had in plenty.
But here's the worst of it --
I shall forget, in Nineteen-twenty,
YOU ever hurt abit!...Read more of this...

by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...l-day herde at ere
Hir fadres shame, his falsnesse and tresoun,
Wel nigh out of hir wit for sorwe and fere,
In widewes habit large of samit broun,
On knees she fil biforn Ector a-doun; 
With pitous voys, and tendrely wepinge,
His mercy bad, hir-selven excusinge.

Now was this Ector pitous of nature,
And saw that she was sorwfully bigoon,
And that she was so fair a creature; 
Of his goodnesse he gladed hir anoon,
And seyde, 'Lat your fadres treson goon
Forth with mischaunc...Read more of this...

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