Famous Convivial Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Convivial poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous convivial poems. These examples illustrate what a famous convivial poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Rattlin’, roarin’ Willie,
You’re welcome hame to me!
Note 1. William Dunbar, W. S., of the Crochallan Fencibles, a convivial club. [back]...Read more of this...
by
Burns, Robert
...to heart will fly.
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THE Gesellige Lieder, which I have angicisled
as above, as several of them cannot be called convivial songs, are
separated by Goethe from his other songs, and I have adhered to
the same arrangement. The Ergo bibamus is a well-known drinking
song in Germany, where it enjoys vast popularity.
ON THE NEW YEAR.
[Composed for a merry party that used to meet,
in 1802, at Goethe's house.]
FATE now allows us,
'Twixt the departing
And the upstarting...Read more of this...
by
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...tuffin',)
The Mouse had fled; - and, previously, had eaten up the Muffin.
They left their home in silence by the once convivial door.
And from that hour those Bachelors were never heard of more....Read more of this...
by
Lear, Edward
...I raise
To celebrate my uncle's praise;
With all my strength, with all my skill,
I'll sing the song of Uncle Bill."
Convivial to the last degree,
An open-hearted sportsman he.
Did midnight howls our slumbers rob,
We said, "It's uncle 'on the job'."
When sounds of fight rang sharply out,
Then Bill was bound to be about,
The foremost figure in "the scrap",
A terror to the local "trap".
To drink, or fight, or maim, or kill,
Came all alike to Uncle Bill.
And when he...Read more of this...
by
Paterson, Andrew Barton
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