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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