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Famous Boozing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Service, Robert William
...n.
Full many a bawdy stave I've sung
 With wenches of my choosing,
But of the joys that kept me young
 The best was boozing.'

The Second: 'I'm a sage revered
 Because I was a fool
And with the bourgeon of my beard
 I kept my ardour cool.
On health I have conserved my hold
 By never dissipating:
And that is why a hundred old
 I'm celebrating.'

The Third: 'The explanation I
 Have been so long a-olding,
Is that to wash I never try,
 Despite conjugal scolding.Read more of this...



by Masefield, John
...-core from his hand, 
and looked at me, "You Devil's limb, 
How dare you talk to Jaggard's Jim; 
You drunken, poaching, boozing brute, you, 
If Jaggard was a man, he'd shoot you." 
She glared all this, but didn't speak, 
she gasped, white hollows in her cheek; 
Jimmy was writhing, screaming wild, 
The shoppers thought I'd killed the child.

I had to speak, so I begun. 
"You oughtn't beat your little son; 
He did no harm, but seeing him there 
I talked to him and g...Read more of this...

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