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Famous Constables Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...w our face
 Within the clachan.


An’ now we’re dern’d in dens and hollows,
And hunted, as was William Wallace,
Wi’ constables-thae blackguard fallows,
 An’ sodgers baith;
But Gude preserve us frae the gallows,
 That shamefu’ death!


Auld grim black-bearded Geordie’s sel’—
O shake him owre the mouth o’ hell!
There let him hing, an’ roar, an’ yell
 Wi’ hideous din,
And if he offers to rebel,
 Then heave him in.


When Death comes in wi’ glimmerin blink,
An’ tips auld ...Read more of this...



by Swift, Jonathan
...tinks,
Belated, seems on watch to lie,
And snap some Cull passing by;
Or, struck with Fear, her Fancy runs
On Watchmen, Constables and Duns,
From whom she meets with frequent Rubs;
But, never from Religious Clubs;
Whose Favour she is sure to find,
Because she pays them all in Kind.
CORINNA wakes. A dreadful Sight!
Behold the Ruins of the Night!
A wicked Rat her Plaster stole,
Half eat, and dragged it to his Hole.
The Crystal Eye, alas, was miss'd;
And Puss had on ...Read more of this...

by Jeffers, Robinson
...-and that increases
Man's dignity, man's importance, necessary lies
Best told by fools.
 I will have no lawyers nor constables
Each man guard his own goods: there will be manslaughter,
But no more wars, no more mass-sacrifice. Nor I'll have no doctors,
Except old women gathering herbs on the mountain,
Let each have her sack of opium to ease the death-pains.


That would be a good world, free and out-doors.
But the vast hungry spirit of the time
Cries to his ch...Read more of this...

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