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Famous Brews Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...re o’ Bucky,
They’ll step in an’ tak a pint
 Wi’ Lady Onlie, honest Lucky.


Chorus.—Lady Onlie, honest Lucky,
 Brews gude ale at shore o’ Bucky;
I wish her sale for her gude ale,
 The best on a’ the shore o’ Bucky.


Her house sae bien, her curch sae clean
 I wat she is a daintie chuckie;
And cheery blinks the ingle-gleed
 O’ Lady Onlie, honest Lucky!
 Lady Onlie, &c....Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...in faith they’re worse,
 An’ mair unchancy).


But as I’m sayin, please step to Dow’s,
An’ taste sic gear as Johnie brews,
Till some bit callan bring me news
 That ye are there;
An’ if we dinna hae a bouze,
 I’se ne’er drink mair.


It’s no I like to sit an’ swallow,
Then like a swine to puke an’ wallow;
But gie me just a true good fallow,
 Wi’ right ingine,
And spunkie ance to mak us mellow,
 An’ then we’ll shine.


Now if ye’re ane o’ warl’s folk,
Wha rate the w...Read more of this...

by Moore, Thomas
...cup was a fiction, but this is reality. 

And though, perhaps -- but breathe it to no one -- 
Like liquor the witch brews at midnight so awful, 
This philter in secret was first taught to flow on, 
Yet 'tisn't less potent for being unlawful. 
And, even though it taste of the smoke of that flame 
Which in silence extracted its virtue forbidden -- 
Fill up -- there's a fire in some hearts I could name, 
Which may work too its charm, though as lawless and hidden. 
So...Read more of this...

by Trumbull, John
...Strut in the robe, or gay cockade.
See Arnold quits, for ways more certain,
His bankrupt-perj'ries for his fortune,
Brews rum no longer in his store,
Jockey and skipper now no more,
Forsakes his warehouses and docks,
And writs of slander for the pox;
And cleansed by patriotism from shame,
Grows General of the foremost name.
For in this ferment of the stream
The dregs have work'd up to the brim,
And by the rule of topsy-turvies,
The scum stands foaming on the surface.<...Read more of this...

by Housman, A E
...pes than poetry. 
Say, for what were hop-yards meant, 
Or why was Burton built on Trent? 
Oh many a peer of England brews 
Livelier liquor than the Muse, 
And malt does more than Milton can 
To justify God's ways to man. 
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink 
For fellows whom it hurts to think: 
Look into the pewter pot 
To see the world as the world's not. 
And faith, 'tis pleasant till 'tis past: 
The mischief is that 'twill not last. 
Oh I have been to Ludlow...Read more of this...



by Yeats, William Butler
...till unemptied cup
That he, when frenzy stirred his thews,
Had hammered out on mountain top
To hold the sacred stuff he brews
That only gods may buy of him.

Now from that juice that made them wise
All those had lifted up the dim
Imaginations of their eyes,
For one that was like woman made
Before their sleepy eyelids ran
And trembling with her passion said,
'Come out and dig for a dead man,
Who's burrowing Somewhere in the ground
And mock him to his face and then
Hollo hi...Read more of this...

by Lindsay, Vachel
...e-skinned men to warn 
Against this sleek silk-merchant here 
And viler coolie-man 
And wrath within the courts of war 
Brews on against Japan!" 

"Must Avalon, with hope forlorn, 
Her back against the wall,
Have lived her brilliant life in vain
While ruder tribes take all?
Must Arthur stand with Asian Celts,
A ghost with spear and crown,
Behind the great Pendragon flag
And be again cut down?

"Tho Europe's self shall move against 
High Jimmu Tenno's throne 
The Forty-seven R...Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily
...of the Boy --
Staring -- bewildered -- at the mocking sky --
Homesick for steadfast Honey --
Ah, the Bee flies not
That brews that rare variety!...Read more of this...

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