Famous Brawls Poems by Famous Poets

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Fighting Mac

...o pray:
"O God! who made me, give me strength to face
The spectre of this bitter, black disgrace."

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The burn brawls darkly down the shaggy glen;
 The bee-kissed heather blooms around the door;
He sees himself a barefoot boy again,
 Bending o'er page of legendary lore.
 He hears the pibroch, grips the red claymore,
Runs with the Fiery Cross, a clansman true,
Sworn kinsman of Rob Roy and Roderick Dhu.

Eating his heart out with a wild desire,
 One day, behind his cou...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Of Hope and Dinosaurs

...ne river,
while the slaughterhouse was waiting for us,
long before we turned the saccharin of words
into inflammable brawls. Full of ancient gluttony,
we have fed our appetites, eating with hasty mouths
what was meant for our own Passover.
It is thus that we shall be remembered:
the curse on the bellwether, crumbled destinies,
although it was possible, once again,
like some extinct creatures, to wish for another life.
After the charnel house, what was this green pas...Read more of this...
by Cheney-Coker, Syl

On The Hurricane

...es with his living Thoughts combine; 
For still his Heart's inclos'd within a Golden Mine. 


Contention with its angry Brawls 
By Storms o'er-clamour'd, shrinks and falls; 
Nor WHIG, nor TORY now the rash Contender calls. 


Those, who but Vanity allow'd, 
Nor thought, it reach'd the Name of Sin, 
To be of their Perfections proud, 
Too much adorn'd without, or too much rais'd within, 
Now find, that even the lightest Things, 
As the minuter parts of Air, 
When Number to thei...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill

The Ballad Of Pious Pete

...his soul, I strove with the powers of the Pit.
I shadowed him down to the scrofulous town; I dragged him from dissolute brawls;
But I killed the galoot when he started to shoot electricity into my walls.

God knows what I did he should seek to be rid of one who would save him from shame.
God knows what I bore that night when he swore and bade me make tracks from his claim.
I started to tell of the horrors of hell, when sudden his eyes lit like coals;
And "Chuck it," says he, ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Marriage Of Geraint

...cts of wrong: 
O never yet had woman such a pair 
Of suitors as this maiden: first Limours, 
A creature wholly given to brawls and wine, 
Drunk even when he wooed; and be he dead 
I know not, but he past to the wild land. 
The second was your foe, the sparrow-hawk, 
My curse, my nephew--I will not let his name 
Slip from my lips if I can help it--he, 
When that I knew him fierce and turbulent 
Refused her to him, then his pride awoke; 
And since the proud man often is the mea...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord


To Brainhardy

...HARDY.    HARDY, thy brain is valiant, 'tis confest, Thou more ; That with it every day dar'st jest Thy self into fresh brawls : when, call'd upon, Scarce thy week's swearing brings thee off, of one. So in short time, thou art in arrearage grown Some hundred quarrels, yet dost thou fight none ; Nor need'st thou : for those few, by oath releast, Make good what thou dar'st do in all the rest. Keep thy self there, and think thy valor right ; He that dares damn himself, dares mor...Read more of this...
by Jonson, Ben

To Walt Whitman In America

...me over, come in and be heard,
Take form and fire for our sakes.

For a continent bloodless with travail
Here toils and brawls as it can,
And the web of it who shall unravel
Of all that peer on the plan;
Would fain grow men, but they grow not,
And fain be free, but they know not
One name for freedom and man?

One name, not twain for division;
One thing, not twain, from the birth;
Spirit and substance and vision,
Worth more than worship is worth;
Unbeheld, unadored, undivined,...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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