Famous Guzzled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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May 24 1980

...les, worn the clothes nowadays back in fashion in every quarter, planted rye, tarred the roofs of pigsties and stables, guzzled everything save dry water. I've admitted the sentries' third eye into my wet and foul dreams. Munched the bread of exile; it's stale and warty.
Granted my lungs all sounds except the howl;
switched to a whisper. Now I am forty.
What should I say about my life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
Broken eggs make me grieve; the omelette, though, m...Read more of this...
by Brodsky, Joseph


May 24 1980

...s 
worn the clothes nowadays back in fashion in every quarter 
planted rye tarred the roofs of pigsties and stables 
guzzled everything save dry water.
I've admitted the sentries' third eye into my wetand foul
dreams. Munched the bread of exile; it's stale and warty.
Granted my lungs all sounds except the howl;
switched to a whisper. Now I am forty.
What should I say about my life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
Broken eggs make me grieve; the omelette thoug...Read more of this...
by Brodsky, Joseph

The Choral Union

...He staggered in from night and frost and fog 
And lampless streets: he’d guzzled like a hog 
And drunk till he was dazed. And now he came 
To hear—he couldn’t call to mind the name— 
But he’d been given a ticket for the show,
And thought he’d (hiccup) chance his luck and go. 

The hall swam in his eyes, and soaring light 
Was dazzling splendid after the dank night. 
He sat and blinked, safe in his cushioned seat, 
And licked his ...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

The Everlasting Mercy

...d, 
And little children mocked and twittered. 
So, blazing mad, I stalked to bar 
To show how noble drunkards are, 
And guzzled spirits like a beast, 
To show contempt for Church and priest, 
Until, by six, my wits went round 
Like hungry pigs in parish pound. 
At half past six, rememb'ring Jane, 
I staggered into street again 
With mind made up (or primed for gin) 
To bash the coop who'd run me in; 
For well I knew I'd have to cock up 
My legs that night inside the lock-up, ...Read more of this...
by Masefield, John

The Jacquerie A Fragment

...ack his holy house
And all the blessed casks be knocked o' the head,
HORRENDUM! all his Holiness' drink to be
Profanely guzzled down the reeking throats
Of scoundrels, and inflame them on to seize
The massy coffers of the Church's gold,
And steal, mayhap, the carven silver shrine
And all the golden crucifixes? No! --
And so the holy father Pope made stir
And had sent forth a legate to Cervolles,
And treated with him, and made compromise,
And, last, had bidden all the Arch-pri...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney


The Three Tommies

...sed.

Oh, Harley and Fanning and Barret, they were bloody good mates o' mine;
Their bodies are empty bottles; Death has guzzled the wine;
What's left of them's filth and corruption. . . . Where is the Fire Divine?

I'll tell you. . . . At night in the trenches, as I watch and I do my part,
Three radiant spirits I'm seeing, high heart revealing to heart,
And they're building a peerless palace to the splendor and triumph of Art.

Yet, alas! for the fame of Barret, the glory he ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Trout Fishing in America

...id and dumped it into the jar. Putting the

jar under the spigot, he turned the water on. The water spit, splashed and

guzzled out of the spigot.

 He was careful to see that the jar did not overflow and the precious

Kool-Aid spill out onto the ground. When the jar was full he turned the

water off with a sudden but delicate motion like a famous brain surgeon

removing a disordered portion of the imagination. Then he screwed the

lid tightly onto the top of the jar and gave...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

When The `Army Prays For Watty

...o token of a feeling in his breast, 
Save of peace that is unbroken and a conscience well at rest; 
And we guzzle as we guzzled long before the Army came, 
And the loafers wait for `shouters' and -- they get there just the same. 

It would take a lot of praying -- lots of thumping on the drum -- 
To prepare our sinful, straying, erring souls for Kingdom Come; 
But I love my fellow-sinners, and I hope, upon the whole, 
That the Army gets a hearing when it prays for Watty's sou...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

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