Famous Euchre Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Plain Language From Truthful James

...yed it that day upon William
And me in a way I despise.

Which we had a small game,
And Ah Sin took a hand:
It was Euchre. The same
He did not understand;
But he smiled as he sat by the table,
With a smile that was childlike and bland.
20Yet the cards they were stocked
In a way that I grieve,
And my feelings were shocked
At the state of Nye’s sleeve,
Which was stuffed full of aces and bowers,
And the same with intent to deceive.

But the hands that were played...Read more of this...
by Harte, Bret


The Ballad of Cockatoo Dock

...ed engineer? 

"Your sordid manners please amend -- 
No man can possibly offend 
Who has a Member for a friend. 

"With euchre, or a friendly rub, 
And whisky, from the nearest 'pub', 
We'll make the dockyard like a club. 

"Heave ho, my hearties, play away, 
We'll do no weary work today. 
What odds -- the public has to pay! 

"And if the public should complain 
I'll go to Broken Hill by train 
To watch McCarthy making rain." 

And there, with nothing else to do 
No doubt the...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

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