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Famous Dought Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...to be mair wise,
But only, lest we gang to hell,
 It may be nae surprise:
But when we tirl’d at your door
 Your porter dought na hear us;
Sae may, shou’d we to Hell’s yetts come,
 Your billy Satan sair us!...Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...mind was in a bog,
 Down George’s Street I stoited;
A creeping cauld prosaic fog
 My very sense doited.


Do what I dought to set her free,
 My saul lay in the mire;
Ye turned a neuk—I saw your e’e—
 She took the wing like fire!


The mournfu’ sang I here enclose,
 In gratitude I send you,
And pray, in rhyme as weel as prose,
 A’ gude things may attend you!...Read more of this...

by Burns, Robert
...Fraser brave did fa’, man;
Then lost his way, ae misty day,
 In Saratoga shaw, man.
Cornwallis fought as lang’s he dought,
 An’ did the Buckskins claw, man;
But Clinton’s glaive frae rust to save,
 He hung it to the wa’, man.


Then Montague, an’ Guilford too,
 Began to fear, a fa’, man;
And Sackville dour, wha stood the stour,
 The German chief to thraw, man:
For Paddy Burke, like ony Turk,
 Nae mercy had at a’, man;
An’ Charlie Fox threw by the box,
 An’ lows’d his...Read more of this...

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