Famous Clinks Poems by Famous Poets

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

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As the Bell Clinks

...As I left the Halls at Lumley, rose the vision of a comely
Maid last season worshipped dumbly, watched with fervor from afar;
And I wondered idly, blindly, if the maid would greet me kindly.
That was all -- the rest was settled by the clinking tonga-bar.
Yea, my life and hers were coupled by the tonga coupling-bar.

For my misty meditation, at the second c...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard


Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else Except Richer

...This is a song to celebrate banks,
Because they are full of money and you go into them and all
you hear is clinks and clanks,
Or maybe a sound like the wind in the trees on the hills,
Which is the rustling of the thousand dollar bills.
Most bankers dwell in marble halls,
Which they get to dwell in because they encourage deposits
and discourage withdrawals,
And particularly because they all observe one rule which woe
betides the banker who fails to heed it,
Which ...Read more of this...
by Nash, Ogden

Clover

...upbraids
The sway-back'd roan for stamping on his foot
With sulphurous oath and kick in flank, what time
The cart-chain clinks across the slanting shaft,
And, kitchenward, the rattling bucket plumps
Souse down the well, where quivering ducks quack loud,
And Susan Cook is singing.
Up the sky
The hesitating moon slow trembles on,
Faint as a new-washed soul but lately up
From out a buried body. Far about,
A hundred slopes in hundred fantasies
Most ravishingly run, so smooth of c...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

In a Castle

...her palsied lord, 
absent and fighting,
terribly abhorred?

He stirs a booted heel and kicks a rolling coal. His 
spur clinks
on the hearth. Overhead, the rain hammers and chinks. She 
is so pure
and whole. Only because he has her soul will she resign 
herself to him,
for where the soul has gone, the body must be given as a sign. He 
takes her
by the divine right of the only lover. He has sworn to 
fight her lord,
and wed her after. Should he be overborne, she will die 
ador...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

The Puritans Ballad

...all be busy with other things 
And they cannot bother us much.

When you are skimming the wrinkled cream 
And your ring clinks on the pan, 
You'll say to yourself in a pensive dream, 
'How wonderful a man!'

When I am slitting a fish's head 
And my ring clanks on the knife, 
I'll say with thanks as a prayer is said, 
'How beautiful a wife!'

And I shall fold my decorous paws 
In velvet smooth and deep, 
Like a kitten that covers up its claws 
To sleep and sleep and sleep.

Li...Read more of this...
by Wylie, Elinor


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