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Famous Cad Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Graves, Robert
...at you’ll write great 
 music, you horrid, you unkind (I sim- 
 ply loathe you, though you are my 
 sister), you beast, cad, coward, cheat, 
 bully, liar! 
Well? Say what’s left for me then! 

But we won’t go to your ugly music.
 (Listen!) Ben will garden and dig, 
And Claire will finish her wondrous pictures 
 All flaming and splendid and big. 
And I’ll be a perfectly marvellous carpenter, 
 and I’ll make cupboards and benches
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by Kipling, Rudyard
...it's sweet to hear the tales the troopers tell,
To dance with blowzy housemaids at the regimental hops
 And thrash the cad who says you waltz too well.
Yes, it makes you cock-a-hoop to be "Rider" to your troop,
 And branded with a blasted worsted spur,
When you envy, O how keenly, one poor Tommy being cleanly
 Who blacks your boots and sometimes calls you "Sir".

If the home we never write to, and the oaths we never keep,
 And all we know most distant and most dear,
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by Betjeman, John
...stop his boring dirty joke
And make him yell. 

But spare the bald young clerks who add
The profits of the stinking cad;
It's not their fault that they are mad, 
They've tasted Hell. 

It's not their fault they do not know 
The birdsong from the radio, 
It's not their fault they often go 
To Maidenhead 

And talk of sport and makes of cars
In various bogus-Tudor bars 
And daren't look up and see the stars
But belch instead. 

In labour-saving homes, with care
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by Chesterton, G K
...ast he grows in, 
He is Poison when he's strong. 

Tea, although an Oriental, 
Is a gentleman at least; 
Cocoa is a cad and coward, 
Cocoa is a vulgar beast, 
Cocoa is a dull, disloyal, 
Lying, crawling cad and clown, 
And may very well be grateful 
To the fool that takes him down. 

As for all the windy waters, 
They were rained like tempests down 
When good drink had been dishonoured 
By the tipplers of the town; 
When red wine had brought red ruin 
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by Lawson, Henry
...e girl that loved and the girl that lies 
In the graveyard there by the sea! 
'Twas not for his "manners" she loved the cad, 
'Twas not for his verse or prose, 
But the pity she felt for the country lad – 
And your Uncle Harry knows. 

The bad girl went where the bad girls go 
And I see her dark eyes yet; 
The good girl left me her broken heart, 
But I trow that their souls have met. 
The cry of the heart we send not forth 
On every wind that blows; 
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