Famous Bragged Poems by Famous Poets

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

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86. The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare Maggie

...kle pride,
When ye bure hame my bonie bride:
An’ sweet an’ gracefu’ she did ride,
 Wi’ maiden air!
Kyle-Stewart I could bragged wide
 For sic a pair.


Tho’ now ye dow but hoyte and hobble,
An’ wintle like a saumont coble,
That day, ye was a jinker noble,
 For heels an’ win’!
An’ ran them till they a’ did wauble,
 Far, far, behin’!


When thou an’ I were young an’ skeigh,
An’ stable-meals at fairs were dreigh,
How thou wad prance, and snore, an’ skreigh
 An’ tak the road!
Tow...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


Deer Dancer

...t with his hands.He jimmied to the proverbial
dream girl, the face of the moon, while the players racked a new game.
He bragged to us, he told her magic words and that when she broke,
became human.
But we all heard his voice crack:

What's a girl like you doing in a place like this?

That's what I'd like to know, what are we all doing in a place like this?


You would know she could hear only what she wanted to; don't we all?Left
the drink of betrayal Richard bought her, at t...Read more of this...
by Harjo, Joy

Heretics Tragedy The

...' and bid clap-to the torch.

CHORUS.

_Laus Deo_---who bids clap-to the torch.


V.

John of the Temple, whose fame so bragged,
Is burning alive in Paris square!
How can he curse, if his mouth is gagged?
Or wriggle his neck, with a collar there?
Or heave his chest, which a band goes round?
Or threat with his fist, since his arms are spliced?
Or kick with his feet, now his legs are bound?
---Thinks John, I will call upon Jesus Christ.
[_Here one crosseth himself_


VI.

Jesus...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

Kathleen

...aded her into the stream and bucked its mighty flow,
And nosed her up the little creeks where no one else would go;
Who bragged she had so small a draft, if dew were on the grass,
With gallant heart and half a start his little boat would pass.
Aye, ships might come and ships might go, but steady every year
The Alice May would chug away with Skipper Silas Geer.

Now though Cap geer had ne'er a fear the devil he could bilk,
He owned a gastric ulcer and his grub was mostly milk....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Deficit Demon

...l wipe out the Monster," 
But while he was boasting and bragging the monster grew larger and larger. 

One day as Dibbs bragged of his prowess in daylight the Deficit met him, 
Settled his hash in one act and made him to all man a byword, 
Sent hin, a raving ex-Premier, to dwell in the shades of oblivion, 
And the people put forward a champion known as Sir Patrick the Portly. 

As in the midnight the tom-cat who seeketh his love on the house top, 
Lifteth his voice up and is ...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton


The Old Huntsman

...nd the mean folk as owed and never paid me, 
And backing losers; and the local bucks 
Egging me on with whiskys while I bragged 
The man I was when huntsman to the Squire. 

I’d have been prosperous if I’d took a farm 
Of fifty acres, drove my gig and haggled 
At Monday markets; now I’ve squandered all 
My savings; nigh three hundred pound I got 
As testimonial when I’d grown too stiff 
And slow to press a beaten fox. 

The Fleece! 
’Twas the damned Fleece that wore my Emily ...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

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