Famous Diddle Poems by Famous Poets

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

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142. Epistle to Major Logan

...the scathe an’ banter
 We’re forced to thole.


Hale be your heart! hale be your fiddle!
Lang may your elbuck jink and diddle,
To cheer you through the weary widdle
 O’ this wild warl’.
Until you on a crummock driddle,
 A grey hair’d carl.


Come wealth, come poortith, late or soon,
Heaven send your heart-strings aye in tune,
And screw your temper-pins aboon
 A fifth or mair
The melancholious, lazy croon
 O’ cankrie care.


May still your life from day to day,
Nae “lente lar...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


71. Second Epistle to Davie

...puir, silly, rhymin clatter
 Some less maun sair.


Hale be your heart, hale be your fiddle,
Lang may your elbuck jink diddle,
To cheer you thro’ the weary widdle
 O’ war’ly cares;
Till barins’ barins kindly cuddle
 Your auld grey hairs.


But Davie, lad, I’m red ye’re glaikit;
I’m tauld the muse ye hae negleckit;
An, gif it’s sae, ye sud by lickit
 Until ye fyke;
Sic haun’s as you sud ne’er be faikit,
 Be hain’t wha like.


For me, I’m on Parnassus’ brink,
Rivin the words t...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

Deacon Jones' Grievance

...down the aisle.
Now it might be almost decent
Ef it was n't fur the way
'At they git up there an' sing it,
Hey dum diddle, loud and gay.
Why, it shames the name o' sacred
In its brazen wordliness,
An' they 've even got "Ol' Hundred"
In a bold, new-fangled dress.
You 'll excuse me, Mr. Parson,
Ef I seem a little sore;
But I 've sung the songs of Isr'el
For threescore years an' more,
An' it sort o' hurts my feelin's
Fur to see 'em put away
Fur these harum-scarum...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

Diddle Diddle Dumpling

...Diddle diddle dumpling, my son JohnWent to bed with his breeches on,One stocking off, and one stocking on;Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John....Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother

Dram-Shop Ditty

...t give me beer, rich greasy food,
And let me fiddle;
Enough of dull philosophy;
To-night we'll merry, merry be . . .
Hi-diddle-diddle....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Fairy Land iii

...
 Bow, wow, 
 The watch-dogs bark: 
 Bow, wow. 
 Hark, hark! I hear 
 The strain of strutting chanticleer 
 Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow!...Read more of this...
by Shakespeare, William

Mulligans Mare

...y Neddy and Jerry the Swell, 
And the man with the head, who remarked "Why, you bet! 
Dog-bite-me!" said he, "but we'll diddle 'em yet. 

"We'll slip out the mare from her stall in a crack, 
And put in her place the old broken-down hack; 
The hack is so like her, I'm ready to swear 
The bailiff will think he has Mulligan's mare. 

"So out with the racer and in with the screw, 
We'll show him what Mulligan's talent can do; 
And if he gets nasty and dares to say much, 
I'll kno...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

My Little Maid

...High diddle doubt, my candle's out  My little maid is not at home;Saddle my hog and bridle my dog,  And fetch my little maid home....Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother

Policeman G

...
If you took a wager, that would be a sin; 
So you'll earn no stripes if you run them in." 
Mush-a-ring-tiy-ah, 
Fol-de-diddle-doh! 
To the House Committee, the Inspector said: 
"'Tis a terrible thing how the gamblers spread, 
For they bet on the steeple, and they bet on the Cup, 
And the magistrates won't lock them up." 
Mush-a-ring-tiy-ah, 
Fol-de-diddle-doh! 

But Policeman G., as he walks his beat, 
Where ghe gamblers are -- up and down the street -- 
Says he: "What's the...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

Sams Racehorse

...dness he'd never forgot.

'Twere a happy reunion on both sides, 
Their pleasure at meeting was great,
For each hoped to diddle the other 
And wipe a few grudges off slate.

The Sergeant brought out his race 'orses, 
For which he asked various sums;
They hadn't a tooth left between them,
But Sam knew their age by their gums.

Sam studied their lines and deportment 
As Sergeant were trotting them round, 
And told him he reckoned their value 
Were fourpence, per race 'orse, per ...Read more of this...
by Edgar, Marriott

The Cat And The Fiddle

...    Hey, diddle, diddle!    The cat and the fiddle,The cow jumped over the moon;    The little dog laughed    To see such sport,And the dish ran away with the spoon....Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother

The Corn-stalk Fiddle

...ld-mice rich on the nubbins dine,
And the frost comes white and the wind blows cold;
Then it's heigho! fellows and hi-diddle-diddle,
For the time is ripe for the corn-stalk fiddle.
And you take a stalk that is straight and long,
With an expert eye to its worthy points,
And you think of the bubbling strains of song
That are bound between its pithy joints—
Then you cut out strings, with a bridge in the middle,
With a corn-stalk bow for a corn-stalk fiddle.
Then the st...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell

...for the hen; but hens exist for the cock. 

God, whom we see not, is; and God, who is not, we see; 
Fiddle, we know, is diddle, and diddle, we take it, is dee....Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon

...its;
But their master's been and drowned his wits,
and the Sun'll be rising soon!'

So the cat on the fiddle played hey-diddle-diddle,
a jig that would wake the dead:
He squeaked and sawed and quickened the tune,
While the landlord shook the Man in the Moon:
'It's after three!' he said.

They rolled the Man slowly up the hill
and bundled him into the Moon,
While his horses galloped up in rear,
And the cow came capering like a deer,
and a dish ran up with the spoon.

Now quick...Read more of this...
by Tolkien, J R R

The Merchants Of London

...Hey diddle dinkety poppety pet,The merchants of London they wear scarlet,Silk in the collar and gold in the hem,So merrily march the merchant men. ...Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother

There was an Old Man of the Isles

...
There was an Old Man of the Isles,Whose face was pervaded with smiles;He sang "High dum diddle," and played on the fiddle,That amiable Man of the Isles. ...Read more of this...
by Lear, Edward

Three Songs

...Hark, hark!
Bow, wow,
The watch-dogs bark:
Bow, wow.
Hark, hark! I hear
The strain of strutting chanticleer
Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow!

--from The Tempest




Tell me where is Fancy bred,
Or in the heart or in the head?
How begot, how nourishèd?
Reply, reply.
It is engender'd in the eyes;
With gazing fed; and Fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
Let us all ring Fancy's knell:
I'll begin it,--Ding, dong, bell!
All. Ding, dong, bell!

--from The Merchant of Venice




Where the...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill

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