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Famous Donkeys Poems by Famous Poets

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain
In Dalton that would someday make his fortune.
There'd been some Boston people out to see it:
And experts said that deep down in the mountain
The mica sheets were big as plate-glass windows.
He'd like to take me there and show it to me.

"I'll tell you what you show me. You remember
You said you knew the place where on...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert



...ead it all to-day, the shifting of the stock; 
You’d think you see the caravans that loaf behind the flock, 
The little donkeys and the mules, the sheep that slowly spread, 
And maybe Dan or Naphthali a-ridin’ on ahead. 

The long, dry, dusty summer days, the smouldering fires at night; 
The stir and bustle of the camp at break of morning light; 
The little kids that skipped about, the camels’ dead-slow tramp— 
I wish I’d done a week or two in Old Man Jacob’s camp! 

But if I...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...I call
aloud "Father," she looks about her in excitement and thinks that
father is near.
When I hold my class with the donkeys that our washer man
brings to carry away the clothes and I warn her that I am the
schoolmaster, she will scream for no reason and call me dada.
Your baby wants to catch the moon. She is so funny; she calls
Ganesh Ganush.
Mother, your baby is silly! She is so absurdly childish!...Read more of this...
by Tagore, Rabindranath
...blazed and ringed 'em --
 Week by week I pried and smhampled -- week by week my findings grew.
Saul he went to look for donkeys, and by God he found a kingdom!
 But by God, who sent His Whisper, I had struck the worth of two!

Up along the hostile mountains, where the hair-poised snowslide shivers --
 Down and through the big fat marshes that the virgin ore-bed stains,
Till I heard the mile-wide mutterings of unimagined rivers,
 And beyond the nameless timber saw illimitable ...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard
...though I'm slow, serene I know
 I won't break down.
With brawn and bone I reckon mine
 The best machine:
Old folks and donkeys best combine,
 --"Giddup, Titine!"...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William



...d the burst-your-ears brass bands

to the ice-cream
to the wasp-stings
to the sand-in-every-meal
to the castles
and the donkeys
and the plates of jellied eel

to the bosoms
and the bottoms
to the bodies-in-the-raw
to the he-men
and the paunches
to the what-the-butler-saw

(to the catch-my-eye
the hold-me-tight
the kiss-me-in-the-park
to the will-you
wont-you-let-me
to the bathing-in-the-dark)

to the landladies
and gloomy rooms
and out-of-here-by-ten
to the drizzle 
and the b...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry