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Famous Corny Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...un ever flow.


Mourn, Spring, thou darling of the year!
Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear:
Thou, Simmer, while each corny spear
 Shoots up its head,
Thy gay, green, flow’ry tresses shear,
 For him that’s dead!


Thou, Autumn, wi’ thy yellow hair,
In grief thy sallow mantle tear!
Thou, Winter, hurling thro’ the air
 The roaring blast,
Wide o’er the naked world declare
 The worth we’ve lost!


Mourn him, thou Sun, great source of light!
Mourn, Empress of the silent night!
A...Read more of this...



by Lawson, Henry
...ve heard bush-wimmin scream an' squall -- 
I've see'd 'em laugh until 
They could not do their work at all, 
Because of Corny Bill. 

He was the jolliest old pup 
As ever you did see, 
And often at some bush kick-up 
They'd make old Bill M.C. 
He'd make them dance and sing all night, 
He'd make the music hum, 
But he'd be gone at mornin' light 
A-humpin' of his drum. 

Though joys of which the poet rhymes 
Was not for Bill an' me, 
I think we had some good old...Read more of this...

by McHugh, Heather
...p for a codpiece, and
the ruined patches bordering the lip. One boot (high-heeled) could make
Sorrento sorry, Capri corny, even little Italy
a little ill. Low-cased, a lover looks

one over--eggs without ease, semen without oars--
and there, on board, tricked out in fur and fin,
the landlubber who wound up captain. Where's it going,
this our (H)MS? More west? More forth? The quest

itself is at a long and short behest: it's wound
in winds. (Take rough from sea...Read more of this...

by Milton, John
...et: and, these scarce blown, 
Forth flourished thick the clustering vine, forth crept 
The swelling gourd, up stood the corny reed 
Embattled in her field, and the humble shrub, 
And bush with frizzled hair implicit: Last 
Rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and spread 
Their branches hung with copious fruit, or gemmed 
Their blossoms: With high woods the hills were crowned; 
With tufts the valleys, and each fountain side; 
With borders long the rivers: that Earth now 
Seem...Read more of this...

by Brautigan, Richard
...br> I went home to prepare for trout fishing in America.
I didn't have any fishing tackle, so I had to fall back on
corny fishing tackle. Like a joke.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

I bent a pin and tied it onto a piece of white string.

And slept. The next morning I got up
early and ate my breakfast. I took a slice of white bread to use for bait.
I planned on making dough balls from the soft center of the bread
and putting them on my vaudev...Read more of this...



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