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Famous Chapman Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...WHEN chapman billies leave the street,
And drouthy neibors, neibors, meet;
As market days are wearing late,
And folk begin to tak the gate,
While we sit bousing at the nappy,
An’ getting fou and unco happy,
We think na on the lang Scots miles,
The mosses, waters, slaps and stiles,
That lie between us and our hame,
Where sits our sulky, sullen dame,
Gathering her ...Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...AS Tam the chapman on a day,
Wi’Death forgather’d by the way,
Weel pleas’d, he greets a wight so famous,
And Death was nae less pleas’d wi’ Thomas,
Wha cheerfully lays down his pack,
And there blaws up a hearty crack:
His social, friendly, honest heart
Sae tickled Death, they could na part;
Sae, after viewing knives and garters,
Death taks him hame to gie him quarters....Read more of this...

by Burns, Robert
...et them aff his hands.
 Buy braw troggin, &c.


Saw ye e’er sic troggin? if to buy ye’re slack,
Hornie’s turnin chapman—he’ll buy a’ the pack.
 Buy braw troggin, &c....Read more of this...

by Kees, Weldon
...erned Sirius, the Dog,
Who shines alike on mothers, lesbians, and whores.

What are we governed by? Dido and Carrie
Chapman Catt arrange themselves as statues near
The playground and the Tivoli. While warming up the beans,
Miss Sanders broods on the Rhamnusian, the whole earth worshipping
Her godhead. Later, vegetables in Athens.
Chaste in the dungeon, swooning with voluptuousness,
The Lady of the Castle weds pure Christ, the feudal groom.

Their bowels al...Read more of this...

by Keats, John
...d I been told 5 
That deep-brow'd Homer ruled as his demesne: 
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene 
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: 
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies 
When a new planet swims into his ken; 10 
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes 
He stared at the Pacific¡ªand all his men 
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise¡ª 
Silent upon a peak in Darien. ...Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...A Tale

"Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Buke."
 —Gawin Douglas.

When chapman billies leave the street,
And drouthy neebors neebors meet,
As market-days are wearing late,
An' folk begin to tak' the gate;
While we sit bousing at the nappy,
An' getting fou and unco happy,
We think na on the lang Scots miles,
The mosses, waters, slaps, and stiles,
That lie between us and our hame,
Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame,
Gathering her ...Read more of this...

by Finch, Anne Kingsmill
...br> 
The Strength of Hector, and Ulysses Arts 
Shall boast such Language, to adorn their Parts, 
As neither Hobbes, nor Chapman cou'd bestow, 
Or did from Congreve, or from Dryden flow. 
Amidst her Towers, the dedicated Horse 
Shall be receiv'd, big with destructive Force; 
Till Men shall say, when Flames have brought her down. 
" Troy is no more, and Ilium was a Town. 

Is this the way to please the Men of Taste, 
The Interrupter cries, this old Bombast? 
I'm sic...Read more of this...

by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...n Europe.
357. This is Turdus aonalaschkae pallasii, the hermit-thrush
which I have heard in Quebec County. Chapman says (Handbook of
Birds of Eastern North America) "it is most at home in secluded
woodland and thickety retreats. . . . Its notes are not remarkable
for variety or volume, but in purity and sweetness of tone and
exquisite modulation they are unequalled." Its
"water-dripping song"
is justly celebrated.
360. The following li...Read more of this...

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