Famous Chancy Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Dream Song 115: Her properties like her of course and frisky and new

by John Berryman
 Her properties, like her of course & frisky & new:
a stale cake sold to kids, a 7-foot weed
inside in the Great Neck night,
a record ('great'), her work all over as u-
sual rejected. She odd in a bakery.
The owner stand beside her

and she have to sell to the brother & sister jumping
without say 'One week old.' Her indifference
to the fate...Read more of this...

Mulhollands Contract

by Rudyard Kipling
 The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea,
An' the pens broke up on the lower deck an' let the creatures free --
An' the lights went out on the lower deck, an' no one near but me.

I had been singin' to them to keep 'em quiet there,
For the lower deck is the dangerousest, requirin' constant...Read more of this...

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