Famous Cluck Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Aubade

...could harden) 
Eternities of kitchen garden,

Cockscomb flowers that none will pluck, 
And wooden flowers that 'gin to cluck.

In the kitchen you must light 
Flames as staring, red and white,

As carrots or as turnips shining 
Where the cold dawn light lies whining.

Cockscomb hair on the cold wind 
Hangs limp, turns the milk's weak mind . . .

Jane, Jane, 
Tall as a crane, 
The morning light creaks down again!...Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William


Authors Prologue

...s beasthood!).
Beasts who sleep good and thin,
Hist, in hogback woods! The haystacked
Hollow farms ina throng
Of waters cluck and cling,
And barnroofs cockcrow war!
O kingdom of neighbors finned
Felled and quilled, flash to my patch
Work ark and the moonshine
Drinking Noah of the bay,
With pelt, and scale, and fleece:
Only the drowned deep bells
Of sheep and churches noise
Poor peace as the sun sets
And dark shoals every holy field.
We will ride out alone then,
Under the star...Read more of this...
by Thomas, Dylan

Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry Ohio

...ptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.

All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home.
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.

Therefore,
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of October,
And gallop terribly against each other's bodies....Read more of this...
by Wright, James

Ballad of Another Ophelia

...h they will taste, of tears, when the yellow dapples
Of autumn tell the withered tale again. 

All round the yard it is cluck, my brown hen, 
Cluck, and the rain-wet wings,
Cluck, my marigold bird, and again 
Cluck for your yellow darlings. 

For the grey rat found the gold thirteen 
Huddled away in the dark, 
Flutter for a moment, oh the beast is quick and keen,
Extinct one yellow-fluffy spark. 

Once I had a lover bright like running water, 
Once his face was laughing like ...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.

Ghost House

...ath now for the toad. 
Night comes; the black bats tumble and dart; 

The whippoorwill is coming to shout 
And hush and cluck and flutter about: 
I hear him begin far enough away 
Full many a time to say his say 
Before he arrives to say it out. 

It is under the small, dim, summer star. 
I know not who these mute folk are 
Who share the unlit place with me-- 
Those stones out under the low-limbed tree 
Doubtless bear names that the mosses mar. 

They are tireless folk, but s...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert


Song of Myself

...death-messages given in charge to survivors, 
The hiss of the surgeon’s knife, the gnawing teeth of his saw,
Wheeze, cluck, swash of falling blood, short wild scream, and long, dull,
 tapering groan; 
These so—these irretrievable. 

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O Christ! This is mastering me! 
In at the conquer’d doors they crowd. I am possess’d. 

I embody all presences outlaw’d or suffering;
See myself in prison shaped like another man, 
And feel the dull unintermitted pain. 

For me ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Duck

...Behold the duck. 
It does not cluck. 
A cluck it lacks. 
It quacks. 
It is specially fond
Of a puddle or pond. 
When it dines or sups, 
It bottoms ups....Read more of this...
by Nash, Ogden

The Haggis Of Private McPhee

...are,
And the hameless wee bullets were dingin' the air.
Yet on they went staggerin', cooryin' doun
When the stutter and cluck o' a Maxim crept roun'.
And the legs o' McPhun they were sturdy and stoot,
And McPhee on his back kept a bonnie look-oot.
"On, on, ma brave lad! We're no faur frae the goal;
I can hear the braw sweerin' o' Sergeant McCole."

But strength has its leemit, and Private McPhun,
Wi' a sab and a curse fell his length on the grun'.
Then Private McPhee shoutit ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Return

...Nor yet conceit, but on the 'ole
(If such a term may be applied),
The makin's of a bloomin' soul.

Rivers at night that cluck an' jeer,
Plains which the moonshine turns to sea,
Mountains that never let you near,
An' stars to all eternity;
An' the quick-breathin' dark that fills
The 'ollows of the wilderness,
When the wind worries through the 'ills--
These may 'ave taught me more or less.

Towns without people, ten times took,
An' ten times left an' burned at last;
An' starvin...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

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