Famous Cobbler Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Bridge Over The Aire Book 5

...n Yat Sen, Gold Coast clippers, salt

Gatherers on a palm-fringed shore - ‘Turks and Caicos Islands’.





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Len the cobbler kept tacks beneath his tongue, a trick

He was taught at Cobblers’ College; he said he could spit

Them straight into the leather but only without an audience

Whose eyes stopped the magic from working.



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Up Easy Road was Rocket’s Greengrocers - Stanley Rocket

Had a green van he took me and Colin in, delivering.

In Kirkgate Market Car Park th...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry


Hans Sachs Poetical Mission

...wish there was any possibility of translating.' 
The reader will be aware that Hans Sachs was the celebrated Minstrel- 
Cobbler of Nuremberg, who Wrote 208 plays, 1700 comic tales, and 
between 4000 and 5000 lyric poems. He flourished throughout almost 
the whole of the 16th century.]

EARLY within his workshop here,
On Sundays stands our master dear;
His dirty apron he puts away,
And wears a cleanly doublet to-day;
Lets wax'd thread, hammer, and pincers rest,
And lays his aw...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Nuremberg

...s the flowers of poesy bloom 35 
In the forge's dust and cinders, in the tissues of the loom. 

Here Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet, laureate of the gentle craft, 
Wisest of the Twelve Wise Masters, in huge folios sang and laughed. 

But his house is now an ale-house, with a nicely sanded floor, 
And a garland in the window, and his face above the door; 40 

Painted by some humble artist, as in Adam Puschman's song, 
As the old man gray and dove-like, with his great b...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Testament

...as come to the gathering of his kin,
Among whom some were worthy men,

Farmers mostly, who lived by hand,
But one was a cobbler from Ireland,

Another played the eternal fool
By riding on a circus mule

To be remembered in grateful laughter
Longer than the rest. After

Doing that they had to do
They are at ease here. Let all of you

Who yet for pain find force and voice
Look on their peace, and rejoice....Read more of this...
by Berry, Wendell

The League of Nations

...ch for his chosen country, State, and city and town; 
Each for his lawn and table and the bed where he lies him down. 

Cobbler and crank and chandler, magpie and ape disguised; 
Each bound to his grocery corner – these are the Five we prized; 
Bleating the teaching of others whom they ever despised. 

But three shall meet in a cellar, companions of mildew and rats; 
And three shall meet in a garret, pungent with stench of the cats, 
And three in a cave in the forest where th...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry


The Reeves Tale

...t? shall we speak all day of holy writ?
The devil made a Reeve for to preach,
As of a souter* a shipman, or a leach**. *cobbler 
Say forth thy tale, and tarry not the time: **surgeon 
Lo here is Deptford, and 'tis half past prime:
Lo Greenwich, where many a shrew is in.
It were high time thy tale to begin."

"Now, sirs," quoth then this Osewold the Reeve,
I pray you all that none of you do grieve,
Though I answer, and somewhat set his hove*, *hood 
For lawful is...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Sycamores

...and Youth together stray; 
While, as heart to heart beats faster, 
More and more their feet delay. 

Where the ancient cobbler, Keezar, 
On the open hillside justice wrought, 
Singing, as he drew his stitches, 
Songs his German masters taught. 

Singing, with his gray hair floating 
Round a rosy ample face,--- 
Now a thousand Saxon craftsmen 
Stitch and hammer in his place. 

All the pastoral lanes so grassy 
Now are Traffic's dusty streets; 
From the village, grown a city, ...Read more of this...
by Whittier, John Greenleaf

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