Famous Covey Poems by Famous Poets

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Botany Bay Eclogues 03 - Humphrey And William

...! I took it down one morn--
A desperate deal of harm they did my corn!
Our testy Squire too loved to save the breed,
So covey upon covey eat my seed.
I mark'd the mischievous rogues, and took my aim,
I fir'd, they fell, and--up the keeper came.
That cursed morning brought on my undoing,
I went to prison and my farm to ruin.
Poor Mary! for her grave the parish paid,
No tomb-stone tells where her cold corpse is laid!
My children--my dear boys--


HUMPHREY:

Come--Grief is dry--...Read more of this...
by Southey, Robert


The Captain of the Push

...that they wouldn't interrupt 
Till he gave an introduction -- it was painfully abrupt -- 
`Here's the bleedin' push, me covey -- here's a (something) from the bush! 
Strike me dead, he wants to join us!' said the captain of the push. 

Said the stranger: `I am nothing but a bushy and a dunce; 
`But I read about the Bleeders in the WEEKLY GASBAG once; 
`Sitting lonely in the humpy when the wind began to "whoosh," 
`How I longed to share the dangers and the pleasures of the pus...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

The Everlasting Mercy

...e loping up and stayed; 
Wide-eyed and tender-eared but bold. 
Sheep bleated up from Penny's fold. 
I heard a partridge covey call, 
The morning sun was bright on all. 
Down the long slope the plough team drove 
The tossing rooks arose and hove. 
A stone struck on the share. A word 
Came to the team. The red earth stirred.

I crossed the hedge by shooter's gap, 
I hitched my boxer's belt a strap, 
I jumped the ditch and crossed the fallow: 
I took the hales from framer Callow...Read more of this...
by Masefield, John

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