Famous Daddies Poems by Famous Poets

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

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62. Epistle to William Simson

...rev’rend gray-beards rav’d an’ storm’d,
 That beardless laddies
Should think they better wer inform’d,
 Than their auld daddies.


Frae less to mair, it gaed to sticks;
Frae words an’ aiths to clours an’ nicks;
An monie a fallow gat his licks,
 Wi’ hearty crunt;
An’ some, to learn them for their tricks,
 Were hang’d an’ brunt.


This game was play’d in mony lands,
An’ auld-light caddies bure sic hands,
That faith, the youngsters took the sands
 Wi’ nimble shanks;
Till lairds ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


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