Get Your Premium Membership

Famous Emus Poems by Famous Poets

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

See also:

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...a difference on a run 
When a grasshopper plague has once begun; 
'If you'd finance us,' I says, 'I'd buy 
Ten thousand emus and have a try; 
The job,' I says, 'is too big for ducks! 

"'You must fetch a duck when you come to stay; 
A great big duck -- a Muscovy toff -- 
Ready and fit,' I says, 'for the fray; 
And if the grasshoppers come our way 
You turn your duck into the lucerne patch, 
And I'd be ready to make a match 
That the grasshoppers eat his feathers off!" 

"He c...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton



...tacks across the plain. 

And the horses shudder and snort and shift 
As the bounding mass of weeds goes past, 
But the emus never their heads uplift 
As they look for roots in the sandy drift, 
For the emus know it from first to last. 

Now, the boss's dog that had come from town 
Was strange to the wild and woolly west, 
And he thought he would earn him some great renown 
When he saw, on the wastes of the open down, 
An emu standing beside her nest. 

And he said to himself...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...id motion, 
Lapping the reed-beds on either side, 
Wending their way to the North Ocean. 
Grey are the plains where the emus pass 
Silent and slow, with their dead demeanour; 
Over the dead man's graves the grass 
Maybe is waving a trifle greener. 
Down in the world where men toil and spin 
Dame Nature smiles as man's hand has taught her; 
Only the dead men her smiles can win 
In the great lone land by the Grey Gulf-water. 

For the strength of man is an insect's strength 
In...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...ing races, no matter 
Whatever its method may be: 
The waterfowl hold a regatta; 
The possums run heats up a tree; 
The emus are constantly sprinting 
A handicap out on the plain; 
It seems that all nature is hinting 
'Tis ime to be at it again. 

"The cockatoo parrots are talking 
Of races to far-away lands; 
The native companions are walking 
A go-as-you-please on the sands; 
The little foals gallop for pastime; 
The wallabies race down the gap; 
Let's try it once more for ...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...
And he'll get nae omelette at a' 
Till the emu lays an egg!" 

"Rin doon, rin doon, my little son Jack, 
To whaur the emus bide, 
Ye shall find the auld hen on the nest, 
While the auld cock sits beside. 

"But speak them fair, and speak them saft, 
Lest they kick ye a fearsome jolt. 
Ye can gi' them a feed of thae half-inch nails 
Or a rusty carriage bolt." 

So little son Jack ran blithely down 
With the rusty nails in hand, 
Till he came where the emus fluffed and scratc...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton



Dont forget to view our wonderful member Emus poems.


Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry