10 Best Famous Henpecked Poems

Here is a collection of the top 10 all-time best famous Henpecked poems. This is a select list of the best famous Henpecked poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Henpecked poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of henpecked poems.

• All Famous Henpecked Poems

 Life is real, life is earnest, 
And the shell is not its pen –
“Egg thou art, and egg remainest”
Was not spoken of the hen.

Art is long and Time is fleeting, 
Be our bills then sharpened well, 
And not like muffled drums be beating
On the inside of the shell.

In the world’s broad field of battle, 
In the great barnyard of life, 
Be not like those lazy cattle! 
Be a rooster in the strife! 

Lives of roosters all remind us, 
We can make our lives sublime, 
And when roasted, leave behind us, 
Hen tracks on the sands of time.

Hen tracks that perhaps another
Chicken drooping in the rain, 
Some forlorn and henpecked brother, 
When he sees, shall crow again.

 Chorus.—Robin shure in hairst,
 I shure wi’ him.
Fient a heuk had I,
 Yet I stack by him.


I GAED up to Dunse,
 To warp a wab o’ plaiden,
At his daddie’s yett,
 Wha met me but Robin:
 Robin shure, &c.


Was na Robin bauld,
 Tho’ I was a cotter,
Play’d me sic a trick,
 An’ me the El’er’s dochter!
 Robin shure, &c.


Robin promis’d me
 A’ my winter vittle;
Fient haet he had but three
 Guse-feathers and a whittle!
 Robin shure, &c.

 AS father Adam first was fool’d,
 (A case that’s still too common,)
Here lies man a woman ruled,
 The devil ruled the woman.