Famous Clinch Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Clancy Of The Mounted Police

...adows back,
 And ever the crouching madman singing his crazy song.

Cold with its creeping terror, cold with its sudden clinch;
 Cold so utter you wonder if 'twill ever again be warm;
Clancy grinned as he shuddered, "Surely it isn't a cinch
 Being wet-nurse to a looney in the teeth of an arctic storm.

"The blizzard passed and the dawn broke, knife-edged and crystal clear;
 The sky was a blue-domed iceberg, sunshine outlawed away;
Ever by snowslide and ice-rip haunted and hov...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Convalescence

...s upon the shore, where poppies glow
And sandflies dance their little lives away.
The sucking waves retard, and tighter clinch
The weeds about him, but the land-winds blow,
And in the sky there blooms the sun of May....Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

From Pent-up Aching Rivers

...m the act-poems of eyes, hands, hips, and bosoms, 
From the cling of the trembling arm, 
From the bending curve and the clinch, 
From side by side, the pliant coverlid off-throwing,
From the one so unwilling to have me leave—and me just as unwilling to leave, 
(Yet a moment, O tender waiter, and I return;) 
—From the hour of shining stars and dropping dews, 
From the night, a moment, I, emerging, flitting out, 
Celebrate you, act divine—and you, children prepared for,
And you...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Jazz Fantasia

...rums, traps, banjoes, horns, tin cans—make two people fight on the top of a stairway and scratch each other’s eyes in a clinch tumbling down the stairs.

Can the rough stuff … now a Mississippi steamboat pushes up the night river with a hoo-hoo-hoo-oo … and the green lanterns calling to the high soft stars … a red moon rides on the humps of the low river hills … go to it, O jazzmen....Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha

...a snuff
---Burnt, do you see? to its uttermost inch---
_I_ believe in you, but that's not enough:
Give my conviction a clinch!

XII.

First you deliver your phrase
---Nothing propound, that I see,
Fit in itself for much blame or much praise---
Answered no less, where no answer needs be:
Off start the Two on their ways.

XIII.

Straight must a Third interpose,
Volunteer needlessly help;
In strikes a Fourth, a Fifth thrusts in his nose,
So the cry's open, the kennel's a-yelp,
...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


Saltbush Bills Second Flight

...tried for it every night. 
In a ten-foot ring! Oh, that's the game that teaches a bloke to fight, 
For they'd rush and clinch -- it was Dublin Rules, and we drew no colour line; 
And they all tried hard for to earn the pound, but they got no pound of mine. 
If I saw no chance in the opening round I'd slog at their wind, and wait 
Till an opening came -- and it always came -- and I settled 'em, sure as fate; 
Left on the ribs and right on the jaw -- and, when the chance comes...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

Skyscraper

...reach out and
hold together the stone walls and floors.

Hour by hour the hand of the mason and the stuff of the
mortar clinch the pieces and parts to the shape an
architect voted.
Hour by hour the sun and the rain, the air and the rust,
and the press of time running into centuries, play
on the building inside and out and use it.

Men who sunk the pilings and mixed the mortar are laid
in graves where the wind whistles a wild song
without words
And so are men who strung the wi...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

The Outlaw

...st,_
      _Must come down when he says the word._

  When my leg swings 'cross on an outlaw hawse
    And my spurs clinch into his hide,
  He kin r'ar and pitch over hill and ditch,
    But wherever he goes I'll ride.
  Let 'im spin and flop like a crazy top
    Or flit like a wind-whipped smoke,
  But he'll know the feel of my rowelled heel
    Till he's happy to own he's broke.

    _For a man is a man and a hawse is a brute,_
      _And the hawse may be princ...Read more of this...
by Clark, Badger

The Younger Son

...And where Vancouver's shaggy ramparts frown,
When the sunlight threads the pine-gloom he is fighting might and main
 To clinch the rivets of an Empire down.
You will find him toiling, toiling, in the south or in the west,
 A child of nature, fearless, frank, and free;
And the warmest heart that beats for you is beating in his breast,
 And he sends you loyal greeting o'er the sea.

You've a brother in the army, you've another in the Church;
 One of you is a diplomatic swell;
Y...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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