Famous Headmaster Poems by Famous Poets

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

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from Proverbs of Hell

...ive any more in an old way

yes it is

  to be a socialist wearing capitalism's cap
  a teacher in the shadow of a dead headmaster
  a tree using somebody else's old sap

  i want to build my future out of new emotions
  to seek more than my own in a spring surround
  to move amongst people keen to move outwards
  putting love and ideas into fresh ground

  who will come with me across this border
  not anywhere but in the bonds we make
  taking the old apart to find new orde...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg


School Smell

...envenomed

After years by a suburban hearth.

It was fifteen years ago

But I still remember Smigger,

Our greying old headmaster

In his spats and striped trousers,

The last in our town to wear them,

And his northern accent,

Heavy as Sunday.

"Now then you lads,

I’m not having this

Or I’ll tan you all,"

He’d bawl at a mill-hand’s boy

For drawing cunts on the lavatory wall.



Old Holmes, too, his yellow teeth

And hair all over the place,

One hand trembling with she...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

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