Famous Dicing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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88. The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer

...x,
May taunt you wi’ his jeers and mocks;
But gie him’t het, my hearty cocks!
 E’en cowe the cadie!
An’ send him to his dicing box
 An’ sportin’ lady.


Tell you guid bluid o’ auld Boconnock’s, 11
I’ll be his debt twa mashlum bonnocks,
An’ drink his health in auld Nance Tinnock’s 12
 Nine times a-week,
If he some scheme, like tea an’ winnocks,
 Was kindly seek.


Could he some commutation broach,
I’ll pledge my aith in guid braid Scotch,
He needna fear their foul reproach
 No...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


Hap

...arrives it joy lies slain,
And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?
—Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,
And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan. . . .
These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown
Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain....Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

I Chop Some Parsley While Listening To Art Blakeys Version Of Three Blind Mice

...unges within me
up off his couch and at the window
trying to hide the rising softness that he feels.

By now I am on to dicing an onion
which might account for the wet stinging
in my own eyes, though Freddie Hubbard's
mournful trumpet on "Blue Moon,"

which happens to be the next cut,
cannot be said to be making matters any better....Read more of this...
by Collins, Billy

Journey Of The Magi

...alloped in 
 away in the meadow.
Then we came to a tavern with 
 vine-leaves over the lintel,
Six hands at an open door dicing for 
 pieces of silver,
And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.
But there was no imformation, and so
 we continued
And arrived at evening, not a moment
 too soon
Finding the place; it was (you may say)
 satisfactory.

All this was a long time ago, I 
 remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all that way for
Birth...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)

Morning News

...ere provisionally was
shelter, a plastic truck under the branches
of a fig tree. A knife flashed in the kitchen,
merely dicing garlic. Engines of war
move inexorably toward certain houses

while citizens sit safe in other houses
reading the newspaper, whose photographs
make sanitized excuses for the war.
There are innumerable kinds of bread
brought up from bakeries, baked in the kitchen:
the date, the latitude, tell which one was
dropped by a child beneath the bloodied branch...Read more of this...
by Hacker, Marilyn


Playboy

...morning's holy hush,
 With heart of shame I hear
A robin from a lilac bush
 Pipe pure and clear.

All night in dive and dicing den,
 With wantons and with wine
I've squandered on wild, witless men
 The fortune that was mine;
The gold my father fought to save
 In folly I have spent;
And now to fill a pauper's grave
 My steps are bent.

See! how the sky is amber bright!
 The thrushes thrill their glee.
The dew-drops sparkle with delight,
 And yonder smiles the sea.
Oh let me pl...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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