Famous Chaffing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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An Apology for my fearfull temper

...y turvy 
With screeches loud and faces scurvey
I break discourse whilst some are laughing
Some fall to chear me some to chaffing
As secretly the driver curses
And whips my fault upon the horses 
These and ten thousand are the errours
Arising from tumultuous terrours
Yet can't I understand the merit
In Female's of a daring spirit
Since to them never was imparted 
In manly strengh tho' manly hearted
Nor need that sex be self defending
Who charm the most when most depending
And ...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill


Bill and Joe

...strain;
You've made the dead past live again:
The world may call you what it will,
But you and I are Joe and Bill.

The chaffing young folks stare and say
"See those old buffers, bent and gray,--
They talk like fellows in their teens
Mad, poor old boys! That's what it means,"--
And shake their heads; they little know
The throbbing hearts of Bill and Joe!--

How Bill forgets his hour of pride,
While Joe sits smiling at his side;
How Joe, in spite of time's disguise,
Finds the ...Read more of this...
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Endymion: Book II

...far, discontent, has dared to tread,
Without one muse's smile, or kind behest,
The path of love and poesy. But rest,
In chaffing restlessness, is yet more drear
Than to be crush'd, in striving to uprear
Love's standard on the battlements of song.
So once more days and nights aid me along,
Like legion'd soldiers.

 Brain-sick shepherd-prince,
What promise hast thou faithful guarded since
The day of sacrifice? Or, have new sorrows
Come with the constant dawn upon thy morrows?
A...Read more of this...
by Keats, John

Tipperary Days

...;
Fighting-fit and mirth-mad, music in the feet of them,
 Swinging on to glory and the wrath out there.
Laughing by and chaffing by, frolic in the smiles of them,
 On the road, the white road, all the afternoon;
Strangers in a strange land, miles and miles and miles of them,
 Battle-bound and heart-high, and singing this tune:

It's a long way to Tipperary,
 It's a long way to go;
It's a long way to Tipperary,
 And the sweetest girl I know.
Good-bye, Piccadilly,
 Farewell, Le...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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