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Famous Busking Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...a Fête Champêtre.


When Love and Beauty heard the news,
 The gay green woods amang, man;
Where, gathering flowers, and busking bowers,
 They heard the blackbird’s sang, man:
A vow, they sealed it with a kiss,
 Sir Politics to fetter;
As their’s alone, the patent bliss,
 To hold a Fête Champêtre.


Then mounted Mirth, on gleesome wing
 O’er hill and dale she flew, man;
Ilk wimpling burn, ilk crystal spring,
 Ilk glen and shaw she knew, man:
She summon’d every social sprite,
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by Burns, Robert



...ean alive!
 Tricksy, wincing and jady,
 Kittle to lead or drive.
 Greet her--she's hailing a stranger!
 Meet her--she's busking to leave.
 Let her alone for a shrew to the bone,
 And the hussy comes plucking your sleeve!
 Largesse! Largesse, Fortune!
 I'll neither follow nor flee.
 If I don't run after Fortune,
 Fortune must run after me!...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

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