Famous Bludgeon Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Eviradnus

...ndished in a deadly way, 
 The dislocated arms made monstrous play 
 With hideous gestures, as now upside down 
 The bludgeon corpse a giant force had grown. 
 "'Tis well!" said Eviradnus, and he cried, 
 "Arrange between yourselves, you two allied; 
 If hell-fire were extinguished, surely it 
 By such a contest might be all relit; 
 From kindling spark struck out from dead King's brow, 
 Batt'ring to death a living Emperor now." 
 
 And Sigismond, thus met and hor...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor


MFingal - Canto III

...ur mobs to join,
And make Mandamus-men resign,
Call'd forth each dufill-drest curmudgeon,
With dirty trowsers and white bludgeon,
Forced all our Councils through the land,
To yield their necks at your command;
While paleness marks their late disgraces,
Through all their rueful length of faces?


"Have you not caused as woeful work
In our good city of New-York,
When all the rabble, well cockaded,
In triumph through the streets paraded,
And mobb'd the Tories, scared their spous...Read more of this...
by Trumbull, John

The Avenue

...ough the dawn chorus
After a party that lasted all night,
With the blackbird, the wood-pigeon,
The song-thrush taking a bludgeon
To a snail, our taking each other's hand
As if the whole world lay before us....Read more of this...
by Muldoon, Paul

The Grog-anGrumble Steeplechase

...ion on the bark-and-sapling stand: 
He was what the local Stiggins used to speak of as a "wessel 
Of wrath", and he'd a bludgeon that he carried in his hand. 

"Off ye go!" the starter shouted, as down fell a stupid jockey – 
Off they started in disorder – left the jockey where he lay – 
And they fell and rolled and galloped down the crooked course and rocky, 
Till the pumping of the Screamer could be heard a mile away. 
But he kept his legs and galloped; he was used to rugge...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

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