Famous Flinders Poems by Famous Poets

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116. On a Scotch Bard gone to the West Indies

...Auld, cantie Kyle may weepers wear,
An’ stain them wi’ the saut, saut tear;
’Twill mak her poor auld heart, I fear,
 In flinders flee:
He was her Laureat mony a year,
 That’s owre the sea!


He saw Misfortune’s cauld nor-west
Lang mustering up a bitter blast;
A jillet brak his heart at last,
 Ill may she be!
So, took a berth afore the mast,
 An’ owre the sea.


To tremble under Fortune’s cummock,
On a scarce a bellyfu’ o’ drummock,
Wi’ his proud, independent stomach,
 Could i...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


Little Polly Flinders

...Little Polly FlindersSat among the cinders    Warming her pretty little toes;Her mother came and caught her,Whipped her little daughter    For spoiling her nice new clothes....Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother

The Everlasting Mercy

...hreds 
And hurled them on the window leads; 
I flung my boots through both the winders 
And knocked the glass to little flinders; 
The punch bowl and the tumblers followed, 
and then I seized the lamps and holloed, 
And down the stairs, and tore back bolts, 
As mad as twenty blooded colts; 
And out into the street I pass, 
As mad as two-year-olds at grass 
A naked madman saving grand 
A blazing lamp in either hand. 
I yelled like twenty drunken sailors, 
:The devil's come amo...Read more of this...
by Masefield, John

The Legend Of Boastful Bill

...ridin' son-of-thunder of the sky._
      _Hi! you earthlin's, shut your winders_
      _While we're rippin' clouds to flinders._
    _If this blue-eyed darlin' kicks at you, you die!_"

  Stardust on his chaps and saddle,
    Scornful still of jar and jolt,
  He'll come back some day, astraddle
    Of a bald-faced thunderbolt.
  And the thin-skinned generation
    Of that dim and distant day
  Sure will stare with admiration
    When they hear old Boastful say--
...Read more of this...
by Clark, Badger

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