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