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Famous Hunkers Poems by Famous Poets

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...e a pliver,
Unless he would from that time forth
 Relinquish her for ever.


Wi’ ghastly e’e poor tweedle-dee
 Upon his hunkers bended,
An’ pray’d for grace wi’ ruefu’ face,
 An’ so the quarrel ended.
But tho’ his little heart did grieve
 When round the tinkler prest her,
He feign’d to snirtle in his sleeve,
 When thus the caird address’d her:


AirTune—“Clout the Cauldron.”My bonie lass, I work in brass,
 A tinkler is my station:
I’ve travell’d round all Christian ground
 In...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...r foolish dies
And the sheep bleating at the wind
As when I also played the fool.'

The beggar in a rage began
Upon his hunkers in the hole,
'It's plain that you are no right man
To mock at everything I love
As if it were not worth, the doing.
I'd have a merry life enough
If a good Easter wind were blowing,
And though the winter wind is bad
I should not be too down in the mouth
For anything you did or said
If but this wind were in the south.'

'You cry aloud, O would 'twere s...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler
...all too well, that's the stuff
 That dreams are made on:

For something sufficiently toad-like
 Squats in me, too;
Its hunkers are heavy as hard luck,
 And cold as snow,

And will never allow me to blarney
 My way of getting
The fame and the girl and the money
 All at one sitting.

I don't say, one bodies the other
 One's spiritual truth;
But I do say it's hard to lose either,
 When you have both....Read more of this...
by Larkin, Philip

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