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Famous Clunk Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...e was drunk:
Sir Violino, with an air
 That show’d a man o’ *****,
Wish’d unison between the pair,
 An’ made the bottle clunk
 To their health that night.


But hurchin Cupid shot a shaft,
 That play’d a dame a shavie—
The fiddler rak’d her, fore and aft,
 Behint the chicken cavie.
Her lord, a wight of Homer’s craft, 3
 Tho’ limpin wi’ the spavie,
He hirpl’d up, an’ lap like daft,
 An’ shor’d them Dainty Davie
 O’ boot that night.


He was a care-defying blade
 As ever Bacchu...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...shed, the pop men with their varnished crates

Of Tizer and dandy, American ice-cream soda and one percent shandy.

The clunk of frothy quarts dumped on donkey-stoned doorsteps

Is heard no more, nor the neighs of restless mares between the shafts.

The shining brass of harness hangs in bar-rooms or droops

From imitation beams.



Gelded stallions no longer chomp and champ

In stalls beneath the slats of shadowed lofts with straw-bales

And hay-ricks as high as houses lazing...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

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