Famous Guzzling Poems by Famous Poets

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

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80. The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata

...can hold the glass steady,
Here’s to thee, my hero, my sodger laddie.


RecitativoPoor Merry-Andrew, in the neuk,
 Sat guzzling wi’ a tinkler-hizzie;
They mind’t na wha the chorus teuk,
 Between themselves they were sae busy:
 At length, wi’ drink an’ courting dizzy,
He stoiter’d up an’ made a face;
 Then turn’d an’ laid a smack on Grizzie,
Syne tun’d his pipes wi’ grave grimace.


AirTune—“Auld Sir Symon.”Sir Wisdom’s a fool when he’s fou;
 Sir Knave is a fool in a session;...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


Acid

...rs called a pica

(like a pregnant woman's craving to eat Twix with piccalilli
or chunks of crunchy sea-coal): I'd been guzzling vinegar,
tipping it on everything, falling for women who were 

beautifully unsuitable, and hiding up wynds off the Cowgate
with a pokeful of hot chips drenched in the sacred stuff
and wrapped in the latest, not last, edition of The Sunday Post

where I read that in London they had found a Chardonnay
with a bouquet of vine leaves and bloomed skins, ...Read more of this...
by Lumsden, Roddy

Always the Mob

...or kings and sacred cows? A mob.

Young roast pigs and naked dancing girls of Belshazzar, the room where a thousand sat guzzling when a hand wrote: Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin? A mob.

The honeycomb of green that won the sun as the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh, flew to its shape at the hands of a mob that followed the fingers of Nebuchadnezzar: a mob of one hand and one plan.

Stones of a circle of hills at Athens, staircases of a mountain in Peru, scattered clans of marble dra...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

Base Details

...th scarlet Majors at the Base, 
And speed glum heroes up the line to death. 
You'd see me with my puffy petulant face, 
Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel, 
Reading the Roll of Honour. "Poor young chap," 
I'd say -- "I used to know his father well; 
Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."
And when the war is done and youth stone dead, 
I'd toddle safely home and die -- in bed....Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

doughnut denial

...such a spiritual gain- in this way
you and i share the high-church position
while others lick the sugar off their lips
guzzling their souls away benightedly
with you great circe in your birthday play

luckily i have no envy of doughnuts
i sit here (alone) appreciating the pure
a step aside from doughy lust and greed
enjoying your birthday in its proper light 
-a time of abstinence starvation longing...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg


Jacob Godbey

...s rallying noble reasons
Around the saloon, as if Liberty
Was not to be found anywhere except at the bar
Or at a table, guzzling?
How did you feel, Ben Pantier, and the rest of you,
Who almost stoned me for a tyrant,
Garbed as a moralist,
And as a wry-faced ascetic frowning upon Yorkshire pudding,
Roast beef and ale and good will and rosy cheer --
Things you never saw in a grog-shop in your life?
How did you feel after I was dead and gone,
And your goddess, Liberty, unmasked ...Read more of this...
by Masters, Edgar Lee

Testimony Regarding a Ghost

...-fingered men
Spoke to the dark-haired women,
“Nothing lovelier, nothing lovelier.”
How could he sit there among us all
Guzzling blood into his guts,
Goblets, mugs, buckets—
Leaning, toppling, laughing
With a slobber on his mouth,
A smear of red on his strong raw lips,
How could he sit there
And only two or three of us see him?
 There was nothing to it.
He wasn’t there at all, of course.

 The roses leaned from the pots.
The sprays snot roses gold and red
And the roses slante...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race

...racket, and trance.
Preached at a sister for her velvet gown.
Howled at a brother for his low-down ways,
His prowling, guzzling, sneak-thief days.
Beat on the Bible till he wore it out
Starting the jubilee revival shout.
And some had visions, as they stood on chairs,
And sang of Jacob, and the golden stairs,
And they all repented, a thousand strong
From their stupor and savagery and sin and wrong
And slammed with their hymn books till they shook the room
With "glory, glory, ...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

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