Famous Gluttons Poems by Famous Poets

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January 1795

...Pavement slipp'ry, people sneezing,
Lords in ermine, beggars freezing ;
Titled gluttons dainties carving,
Genius in a garret starving.

Lofty mansions, warm and spacious ;
Courtiers clinging and voracious ;
Misers scarce the wretched heeding ;
Gallant soldiers fighting, bleeding.

Wives who laugh at passive spouses ;
Theatres, and meeting-houses ;
Balls, where simp'ring misses languish ;
Hospitals, and groans of anguish.

Arts and scie...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby


Manhattan Streets I Saunter'd Pondering

...the body, if not more.

Not one word or deed—not venereal sore, discoloration, privacy of the onanist,
 putridity
 of
 gluttons or rum-drinkers, peculation, cunning, betrayal, murder, seduction, prostitution,
 but
 has
 results beyond death, as really as before death. 

4
Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything. 

No specification is necessary—all that a male or female does, that is vigorous,
 benevolent,
 clean, is so much profit to him or her, in...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Stans Puer ad Mensam

...ld be finished soon, 
If peas were eaten with the knife, 
And gravy with the spoon. 

Eat slowly: only men in rags 
And gluttons old in sin 
Mistake themselves for carpet bags 
And tumble victuals in. 

The privy pinch, the whispered tease, 
The wild, unseemly yell -- 
When children do such things as these, 
We say, "It is not well." 

Endure your mother's timely stare, 
Your father's righteous ire, 
And do not wriggle on your chair 
Like flannel in the fire. 

Be silent: you...Read more of this...
by Raleigh, Sir Walter

This Compost

...every continent work’d over and over with sour dead?

Where have you disposed of their carcasses? 
Those drunkards and gluttons of so many generations; 
Where have you drawn off all the foul liquid and meat? 
I do not see any of it upon you to-day—or perhaps I am deceiv’d; 
I will run a furrow with my plough—I will press my spade through the sod, and turn it
 up
 underneath;
I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat. 

2
Behold this compost! behold it well! 
Perhaps eve...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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