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Famous Grimes Poems by Famous Poets

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

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If Turner remitted my bluster and rhymes, 
If Hardind was girlish and cold, 
If never an ogle was got from Miss Grimes, 
If Flavia was blasted and old; 

I chose without liking, and left without pain, 
Nor welcomed the frown with a sigh; 
I scorned, like a monkey, to dangle my chain, 
And paint them new charms with a lie. 

Once Cotton was handsome; I flam'd and I burn'd, 
I died to obtain the bright queen; 
But when I beheld my epistle return'd, 
By Jesu it alter'd t...Read more of this...
by Chatterton, Thomas



...I could have sold him up because
 His rent was long past due;
And Grimes, my lawyer, said it was
 The proper thing to do:
But how could I be so inhuman?
 And me a gentle-woman.

Yet I am poor as chapel mouse,
 Pinching to make ends meet,
And have to let my little house
 To buy enough to eat:
Why, even now to keep agoing
 I have to take in sewing.

Sylvester is a widowed man,
 Clerk in a hardware store;
I guess he does the ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...Old Grimes is dead, that good old man,     We ne'er shall see him more;He used to wear a long brown coat     All buttoned down before....Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother

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