Famous Aristocrat Poems by Famous Poets

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Millennium

...e hairpin now is a contraband.
A New York mayor gets some sympathy.
My dealer brings some coal to me.
The plumber is an aristocrat.
In Miami all millionaires may be—
And the Turk has bought him a derby hat.

Son, the millennium is at hand!
What though Armenians be mashed flat?
The world is getting just perfectly grand,
For the Turk has bought him a derby hat....Read more of this...
by Butler, Ellis Parker


Our New Horse

...y lost their good money on Slogan, 
And fell most uncommonly flat 
When Partner, the pride of the Bogan, 
Was beaten by Aristocrat. 
And one said, "I move that instanter 
We sell out our horses and quit; 
The brutes ought to win in a canter, 
Such trials they do when they're fit. 
The last one they ran was a snorter -- 
A gallop to gladden one's heart -- 
Two-twelve for a mile and a quarter, 
And finished as straight as a dart. 

"And then when I think that they're ready 
To ...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

She sped as Petals of a Rose

...She sped as Petals of a Rose
Offended by the Wind --
A frail Aristocrat of Time
Indemnity to find --
Leaving on nature -- a Default
As Cricket or as Bee --
But Andes in the Bosoms where
She had begun to lie --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

The Aristocrat

...The Devil is a gentleman and askes you down to stay
At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away).
They say the sport is splendid; there is always something new,
And fairy scenes, and fearful feats that none but he can do;
He can shoot the feathered cherubs if they fly on the estate,
Or fish for Father Neptune with the mermaids for a bait;
He sc...Read more of this...
by Chesterton, G K

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