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Famous Connoisseur Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Drunkard cannot meet a Cork

by Emily Dickinson
 A Drunkard cannot meet a Cork
Without a Revery --
And so encountering a Fly
This January Day
Jamaicas of Remembrance stir
That send me reeling in --
The moderate drinker of Delight
Does not deserve the spring --
Of juleps, part are the Jug
And more are in the joy --
Your connoisseur in Liquours
Consults the Bumble Bee --...Read more of this...

Sensitive Burglar

by Robert William Service
 Selecting in the dining-room
 The silver of his choice,
The burglar heard from chamber gloom
 A female voice.
As cold and bitter as a toad,
 She spat a nasty name,
So even as his swag he stowed
 He blushed for shame.

'You dirty dog!' he heard her say,
 'I sniff your whisky stench.
I bet you've gambled half your pay,
 Or blown it on...Read more of this...

My Madonna

by Robert W Service
I haled me a woman from the street, 
Shameless, but, oh, so fair! 
I bade her sit in the model's seat 
And I painted her sitting there. 

I hid all trace of her heart unclean; 
I painted a babe at her breast; 
I painted her as she might have been 
If the Worst had been the Best. 

She laughed at...Read more of this...

My Madonna

by Robert William Service
 I haled me a woman from the street,
 Shameless, but, oh, so fair!
I bade her sit in the model's seat
 And I painted her sitting there.

I hid all trace of her heart unclean;
 I painted a babe at her breast;
I painted her as she might have been
 If the Worst had been the Best.

She laughed at my picture and...Read more of this...

Tema con Variazioni

by Lewis Carroll
 Why is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to that process of Dilution which has proved so advantageous to her sister-art Music? The Diluter gives us first a few notes of some well-known Air, then a dozen bars of his own, then a few more notes of the Air, and so on alternately: thus saving the listener,...Read more of this...

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