Famous Au Revoir Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Bohemian

by Robert William Service
 Up in my garret bleak and bare
I tilted back on my broken chair,
And my three old pals were with me there,
 Hunger and Thirst and Cold;
Hunger scowled at his scurvy mate:
Cold cowered down by the hollow grate,
And I hated them with a deadly hate
 As old as life is old.

So up in my garret that's near the sky
I smiled...Read more of this...

The Cuckoo

by Robert William Service
 No lyric line I ever penned
The praise this parasitic bird;
And what is more, I don't intend
To write a laudatory word,
Since in my garden robins made
A nest with eggs of dainty spot,
And then a callous cuckoo laid
 A lone on on the lot.

Of course the sillies hatched it out
Along with their two tiny chicks,
And there it threw its weight about,
But...Read more of this...

Tipperary Days

by Robert William Service
 Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them,
 Singing all together with their throats bronze-bare;
Fighting-fit and mirth-mad, music in the feet of them,
 Swinging on to glory and the wrath out there.
Laughing by and chaffing by, frolic in the smiles of them,
 On the road, the white road, all the afternoon;
Strangers in a strange...Read more of this...

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