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Famous Baboons Poems by Famous Poets

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by Aldington, Richard
...ter the Armada. 
There were also several packets of stamps, 
Yellow and blue Guatemala parrots, 
Blue stags and red baboons and birds from Sarawak, 
Indians and Men-of-war 
From the United States, 
And the green and red portraits 
Of King Francobello 
Of Italy. 

V 

I don't believe in God. 
I do believe in avenging gods 
Who plague us for sins we never sinned 
But who avenge us. 

That's why I'll never have a child, 
Never shut up a chrysalis in a match-box 
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by Stevens, Wallace
...rings.
None of them are strange,
With socks of lace
And beaded ceintures.
People are not going
To dream of baboons and periwinkles.
Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches tigers
In red weather....Read more of this...

by Stevens, Wallace
...blue rings.
None of them are strange,
With socks of lace
And beaded ceintures.
People are not going
To dream of baboons and periwinkles.
Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches Tigers
In red weather....Read more of this...

by McGonagall, William Topaz
...l with harpoons for the fray,
Which they fired at him without dismay. 

And they laughed and grinned just like wild baboons,
While they fired at him their sharp harpoons:
But when struck with,the harpoons he dived below,
Which filled his pursuers' hearts with woe. 

Because they guessed they had lost a prize,
Which caused the tears to well up in their eyes;
And in that their anticipations were only right,
Because he sped on to Stonehaven with all his might: 

And was ...Read more of this...

by Blake, William
...driving the Angel before me, soon we saw seven houses
of brick, one we enterd; in it were a [PL 20] number of monkeys,
baboons, & all of that species chaind by the middle, grinning and
snatching at one another, but witheld by the shortness of their
chains: however I saw that they sometimes grew numerous, and then
the weak were caught by the strong and with a grinning aspect,
first coupled with & then devourd, by plucking off first one limb
and then another till the body was ...Read more of this...



by Kipling, Rudyard
...e,
 A kopje is always a kopje,
 And a Boojer is always a Boer!

Only two African kopjes,
 Only the vultures above,
Only baboons--at the bottom,
 Only some buck on the move;
Only a Kensington draper
 Only pretending to scout . . .
.Only bad news for the paper,
 Only another knock-out.


 Then mock not the African kopje, 
 And rub not your flank on its side,
 The silent and simmering kopje,
 The kopje beloved by the guide.
 You can never be, etc.


O...Read more of this...

by Piercy, Marge
...air like a museum piece, daily 
ornamented with ribbons, vases, 
grottoes, mountains, frigates in full 
sail, balloons, baboons, the fancy 
of a hairdresser turned loose. 
The hats were rococo wedding cakes 
that would dim the Las Vegas strip. 
Here is a woman forced into shape 
rigid exoskeleton torturing flesh: 
a woman made of pain. 

How superior we are now: see the modern woman 
thin as a blade of scissors. 
She runs on a treadmill every morning, 
fits he...Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...the chimpanzee 
He turned abroad to roam; 
Good faith! It was a sight to see 
The people step for home. 


For big baboons with canine snout 
Are spiteful, as a rule— 
The people didn’t sit it out, 
When Dacey rode the mule. 
And from the beasts he let escape, 
The bushmen all declare, 
Were born some creatures partly ape 
And partly native-bear. 
They’re rather few and far between, 
The race is nearly spent; 
But some of them may still be seen 
In Sydney Parliam...Read more of this...

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