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Famous Corpulence Poems by Famous Poets

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...and beer
That make for portliness they say;
 Yet of them copiously today
I ate with an increasingly sense
 Of grievous corpulence.

I like a lot of thinks I like.
 Too bad that I must go on strike
Against pork sausages and mash,
 Spaghetti and fried corn-beef hash.
I deem he is a lucky soul
 Who has no need of girth control;
For in the old of age: 'Il faut
 Souffrir pour etre bean.'

Yet let me not be unconsoled:
 So many greybeards I behold,
Distinguished in affairs of stat...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William



...ew, 
Streaking the ground with sinuous trace; not all 
Minims of nature; some of serpent-kind, 
Wonderous in length and corpulence, involved 
Their snaky folds, and added wings. First crept 
The parsimonious emmet, provident 
Of future; in small room large heart enclosed; 
Pattern of just equality perhaps 
Hereafter, joined in her popular tribes 
Of commonalty: Swarming next appeared 
The female bee, that feeds her husband drone 
Deliciously, and builds her waxen cells 
With ...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...and lost his way.
At last while doubtfully he all compares,
He saw near hand, as he imagin'd Ares.
Such did he seem for corpulence and port,
But 'twas a man much of another sort;
'Twas Ben that in the dusky Laurel shade
Amongst the Chorus of old Poets laid,
Sounding of ancient Heroes, such as were
The Subjects Safety, and the Rebel's Fear.
But how a double headed Vulture Eats,
Brutus and Cassius the Peoples cheats.
But seeing May he varied streight his song,
Gently to signifi...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

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