Famous Budge Poems by Famous Poets

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At the Cedars

...ith the logs tight rammed
And crammed; you might know
The Devil had clinched them below.

We worked three days -- not a budge,
'She's as tight as a wedge, on the ledge,'
Says our foreman;
'Mon Dieu! boys, look here,
We must get this thing clear.'
He cursed at the men
And we went for it then;
With our cant-dogs arow,
We just gave he-yo-ho;
When she gave a big shove
From above.

The gang yelled and tore
For the shore,
The logs gave a grind
Like a wolf's jaws behind,
And as quic...Read more of this...
by Scott, Duncan Campbell


Comus

...good is not delicious
To a well-governed and wise appetite.
 COMUS. 0 foolishness of men! that lend their ears
To those budge doctors of the Stoic fur,
And fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub,
Praising the lean and sallow Abstinence!
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth
With such a full and unwithdrawing hand,
Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks,
Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable,
But all to please and sate the curious taste?
And set to work...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Doors Doors Doors

...that close platoon
of doors, past the dear old man who always asks us in
and the one who sews like a wasp and will not budge.

Climbing the dark halls, I ignore their papers and pails,
the twelve coats of rubbish of someone else's dim life.
Tell them need is an excuse for love. Tell them need prevails.
Tell them I remake and smooth your bed and am your wife....Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

Dream Song 9: Deprived of his enemy shrugged to a standstill

...test

if he's still human, see,
therefore she get on the Sheriff's mike & howl
'Come down, come down'.
Therefore he un-budge, furious. He'd flee
but only Heaven hangs over him foul.
At the crossways, downtown,

he dreams the folks are buying parsnips & suds
and paying rent to foes. He slipt & fell.
It's golden here in the snow.
A mild crack: a far rifle. Bogart's duds
truck back to Wardrobe. Fancy the brain from hell
held out so long. Let go....Read more of this...
by Berryman, John

Pauls Wife

...to be ashamed of.

 You know Paul could do wonders. Everyone's
Heard how he thrashed the horses on a load
That wouldn't budge, until they simply stretched
Their rawhide harness from the load to camp.
Paul told the boss the load would be all right,
"The sun will bring your load in"--and it did--
By shrinking the rawhide to natural length.
That's what is called a stretcher. But I guess
The one about his jumping so's to land
With both his feet at once against the ceiling,
And th...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert


Requiem for the Plantagenet Kings

...rks, crowns hacked and coveted,
Before the scouring fires of trial-day
Alight on men; before sleeked groin, gored head,
Budge through the clay and gravel, and the sea
Across daubed rock evacuates its dead....Read more of this...
by Hill, Geoffrey

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

...the seventh mountain
so that all who passed by
could peek in upon her beauty.
A prince came one June day
and would not budge.
He stayed so long his hair turned green
and still he would not leave.
The dwarfs took pity upon him
and gave him the glass Snow White--
its doll's eyes shut forever--
to keep in his far-off castle.
As the prince's men carried the coffin
they stumbled and dropped it
and the chunk of apple flew out
of her throat and she woke up miraculously.

And thus S...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

The Ballad Of Caseys Billy-Goat

...like a lump of lead he tumbled - right across the railroad track.

And there he lay, serenely, and defied the powers to budge him,
Reposing like a baby, with his head upon the rail;
But Shamus seemed unhappy, and from time to time would nudge him,
Though his prods to protestation were without the least avail.
Then to that goatish mind, maybe, a sense of fell disaster
Came stealing like a spectre in the dim and dreary dawn;
For his bleat of warning blended with the snoring of ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Sale of Saint Thomas

...new palace. 

Stranger Yea? He is your man. 

Captain 
Come on, my man. I'll put your cunning heels 
Where they'll not budge more than a shuffled inch. 
My lord, if you'll bide with the rascal here 
I'll get the irons ready. Here's your sum. -- 

Stranger 
Now, Thomas, know thy sin. It was not fear; 
Easily may a man crouch down for fear, 
And yet rise up on firmer knees, and face 
The hailing storm of the world with graver courage. 
But prudence, prudence is the deadly sin,...Read more of this...
by Abercrombie, Lascelles

The Space Heater

...a group of sick noises-
I wanted the doctor to turn it off
but I couldn't seem to ask, so I just
stared, but it did not budge. The doctor
turned his heavy, soft palm
outward, toward me, inviting me to speak, I
said, "If you're cold-are you cold? But if it's on 
for me..." He held his palm out toward me,
I tried to ask, but I only muttered,
but he said, "Of course," as if I had asked,
and he stood up and approached the heater, and then
stood on one foot, and threw himself
towa...Read more of this...
by Olds, Sharon

Three HaPence a Foot

...ny a foot's more the mark; 
A penny a foot, and when t'rain comes, 
I'll give you a ride in me Ark.' 
But neither would budge in the bargain; 
The whole daft thing were kind of a jam, 
So Sam put 'is tongue out at Noah, 
And Noah made 'Long Bacon ' at Sam 

In wrath and ill-feeling they parted, 
Not knowing when they'd meet again, 
And Sam had forgot all about it, 
'Til one day it started to rain. 

It rained and it rained for a fortni't, 
And flooded the 'ole countryside. 
I...Read more of this...
by Edgar, Marriott

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