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Famous Beers Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Kipling, Rudyard
...illogical, elate,
 He greets the embarrassed Gods, nor fears
To shake the iron hand of Fate
 Or match with Destiny for beers.

Lo, imperturbable he rules,
 Unkempt, desreputable, vast --
And, in the teeth of all the schools,
 I -- I shall save him at the last!...Read more of this...



by Wright, James
...In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of ******* in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.

All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home.
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.

Therefore,
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of October,
And gallop ter...Read more of this...

by Hope, Alec Derwent (A D)
...otel - 
A most unusual place for him to go - 
But there he was and there she was as well 
Sitting alone. He ordered beers for two. 

She was so large a girl that when they came 
He gave the waiter twice the usual tip. 
She smiled without surprise, told him her name, 
And as the name trembled on Henry's lip, 

His parched soul, swelling like a desert root, 
Broke out its delicate dream upon the air; 
The mountains shook with earthquake under foot; 
An angel seized ...Read more of this...

by Lawson, Henry
...ing that way. 

But beware of the town -- there is poison for years 
In the pleasure you find in the depths of long beers; 
For the bushman gets bushed in the streets of a town, 
Where he loses his friends when his cheque is knocked down; 
He is right till his pockets are empty, and then -- 
He can hump his old bluey up country again....Read more of this...

by Butler, Ellis Parker
...hing—
Here’s what our people are defraying:

“Tariff tax, income tax,
Tax on retail sales,
Club tax, school tax,
Tax on beers and ales,

“City tax, county tax,
Tax on obligations,
War tax. wine tax,
Tax on corporations,

“Brewer tax, sewer tax,
Tax on motor cars,
Bond tax, stock tax,
Tax on liquor bars,

“Bridge tax, check tax,
Tax on drugs and pills,
Gas tax, ticket tax,
Tax on gifts in wills,

“Poll tax, dog tax,
Tax on money loaned,
State tax, road tax,
Tax on all thin...Read more of this...



by Service, Robert William
...used to know;
The girls I used to kiss;
The coin I used to blow:
The bars I used to haunt;
The racket and the row;
The beers I didn't want
(I wish I had 'em now).

Day after day the same,
Only a little worse;
No one to grouch or blame--
Oh, for a loving curse!
Oh, in the night I fear,
Haunted by nameless things,
Just for a voice to cheer,
Just for a hand that clings!

Faintly as from a star
Voices come o'er the line;
Voices of ghosts afar,
Not in this world of mine;
Live...Read more of this...

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