Famous Chuckling Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Endymion: Book I

...itage; yellow girted bees
Their golden honeycombs; our village leas
Their fairest-blossom'd beans and poppied corn;
The chuckling linnet its five young unborn,
To sing for thee; low creeping strawberries
Their summer coolness; pent up butterflies
Their freckled wings; yea, the fresh budding year
All its completions--be quickly near,
By every wind that nods the mountain pine,
O forester divine!

 "Thou, to whom every fawn and satyr flies
For willing service; whether to surpris...Read more of this...
by Keats, John


Goblin Market

...hed every goblin
When they spied her peeping:
Came towards her hobbling,
Flying, running, leaping,
Puffing and blowing,
Chuckling, clapping, crowing,
Clucking and gobbling,
Mopping and mowing,
Full of airs and graces,
Pulling wry faces,
Demure grimaces,
Cat-like and rat-like,
Ratel and wombat-like,
Snail-paced in a hurry,
Parrot-voiced and whistler,
Helter-skelter, hurry-skurry,
Chattering like magpies,
Fluttering like pigeons,
Gliding like fishes, --
Hugged her and kissed he...Read more of this...
by Rossetti, Christina

In a Castle

...d and he is alone. How 
far from the wall
the arras is blown!

Christ's Death! It is no storm which makes these little 
chuckling sounds.
By the Great Wounds of Holy Jesus, it is his dear lady, kissing 
and
clasping someone! Through the sobbing storm he hears 
her love take form
and flutter out in words. They prick into his ears and 
stun his desire,
which lies within him, hard and dead, like frozen fire. And 
the little noise
never stops.
Drip -- hiss -- the rain drops.

He ...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

My Favoured Fare

...ke the kitten on my lap:
Give me no broth and chicken breast;
My last repast shall hearty be . . .
Oh how I'll sup with chuckling zest
 On ham and eggs and tea!...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Phantasmagoria CANTO VI ( Dyscomfyture )

...n the knuckles! 

"Then carelessly remark 'Old coon!
Perhaps you're not aware
That, if you don't behave, you'll soon
Be chuckling to another tune -
And so you'd best take care!' 

"That's the right way to cure a Sprite
Of such like goings-on -
But gracious me! It's getting light!
Good-night, old Turnip-top, good-night!"
A nod, and he was gone....Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis


Sowing

...y 
For sowing; just 
As sweet and dry was the ground 
As tobacco-dust. 

I tasted deep the hour 
Between the far 
Owl's chuckling first soft cry 
And the first star. 

A long stretched hour it was; 
Nothing undone 
Remained; the early seeds 
All safely sown. 

And now, hark at the rain, 
Windless and light, 
Half a kiss, half a tear, 
Saying good-night....Read more of this...
by Thomas, Edward

Storm and Sunlight

...ulous blue. Raise your bowed heads, and let 
Your horns adore the sky, ye patient kine! 
Haste, flashing brooks! Small, chuckling rills, rejoice! 
Be open-eyed for Heaven, ye pools of peace! 
Shine, rain-bow hills! Dream on, fair glimps?d vale 
In haze of drifting gold! And all sweet birds, 
Sing out your raptures to the radiant leaves! 
And ye, close huddling Men, come forth to stand 
A moment simple in the gaze of God
That sweeps along your pastures! Breathe his might! 
Lif...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

the adventures (from frederick and the enchantress – dance drama)

...gers of the bog
  into the slush

  squelching and splotch-
  ing the marsh
  gushes and gurgles
  engulfing foot leg
  chuckling suckles
  the heaving thigh
  the plush slugged waist
  sucking still and still flushing
  with suggestive slurp
  plop slap
  sluggishly upwards
  unctuous lugubrious
  soaking and enjoying
  with spongy gestures
  the swallowed wallowing
  body - the succulence
  of soft shoulder
  squirming
  elbow
  wrist
  then
  all.......

  but no
  his des...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg

The Comedian As The Letter C

...45 Came reproduced in purple, family font, 
546 The same insoluble lump. The fatalist 
547 Stepped in and dropped the chuckling down his craw, 
548 Without grace or grumble. Score this anecdote 
549 Invented for its pith, not doctrinal 
550 In form though in design, as Crispin willed, 
551 Disguised pronunciamento, summary, 
552 Autumn's compendium, strident in itself 
553 But muted, mused, and perfectly revolved 
554 In those portentous accents, syllables, 
555 And...Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace

The Height of the Ridiculous

...is face
Was all upon the grin.

He read the next; the grin grew broad, 
And shot from ear to ear; 
He read the third; a chuckling noise 
I now began to hear.

The fourth; he broke into a roar; 
The fifth; his waistband split;
The sixth; he burst five buttons off, 
And tumbled in a fit.

Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, 
I watched that wretched man, 
And since, I never dare to write 
As funny as I can....Read more of this...
by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The Mary Gloster

...er fires are drawn and cold,
And the water's splashin' hollow on the skin of the empty hold --
Churning an' choking and chuckling, quiet and scummy and dark --
Full to her lower hatches and risin' steady. Hark!
That was the after-bulkhead. . . . She's flooded from stem to stern. . . .
'Never seen death yet, Dickie? . . . Well, now is your time to learn!...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

To My Brother Miguel In Memoriam

...es cry,
brother, from so much laughing.

Miguel, you went into hiding
one night in August, toward dawn,
but, instead of chuckling, you were sad.
And the twin heart of those dead evenings
grew annoyed at not finding you. And now
a shadow falls on my soul.

Listen, brother, don't be late
coming out. All right? Mama might worry....Read more of this...
by Vallejo, Cesar

Two idylls from bion the smyrnean

...to see
Eros perching in a tree.

"What strange bird is that, I wonder?"
Thought the youth, and spread his snare;
Eros, chuckling at the blunder,
Gayly scampered here and there.
Do his best, the simple clod
Could not snare the agile god!

Blubbering, to his aged master
Went the fowler in dismay,
And confided his disaster
With that curious bird that day;
"Master, hast thou ever heard
Of so ill-disposed a bird?"

"Heard of him? Aha, most truly!"
Quoth the master with a smile;
"...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene

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