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Famous Jee Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...le, an’ I’ll come to ye, my lad.


But warily tent when ye come to court me,
And come nae unless the back-yett be a-jee;
Syne up the back-stile, and let naebody see,
And come as ye were na comin’ to me,
And come as ye were na comin’ to me.
 O whistle an’ I’ll come, &c.


At kirk, or at market, whene’er ye meet me,
Gang by me as tho’ that ye car’d na a flie;
But steal me a blink o’ your bonie black e’e,
Yet look as ye were na lookin’ to me,
Yet look as ye were na l...Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...rash aith,
That I henceforth wad be rhyme-proof
 Till my last breath—


When click! the string the snick did draw;
An’ jee! the door gaed to the wa’;
An’ by my ingle-lowe I saw,
 Now bleezin bright,
A tight, outlandish hizzie, braw,
 Come full in sight.


Ye need na doubt, I held my whisht;
The infant aith, half-form’d, was crusht
I glowr’d as eerie’s I’d been dusht
 In some wild glen;
When sweet, like honest Worth, she blusht,
 An’ steppèd ben.


Green, slender, lea...Read more of this...

by Hardy, Thomas
...d He.

No highwayman's trot blew the night-wind
To me so life-weary,
But only the creak of the gibbets
Or wagoners' jee.

Triple-ramparted Maidon gloomed grayly
Above me from southward,
And north the hill-fortress of Eggar,
And square Pummerie.

The Nine-Pillared Cromlech, the Bride-streams,
The Axe, and the Otter
I passed, to the gate of the city
Where Exe scents the sea;

Till, spent, in the graveacre pausing,
I learnt 'twas not my Love
To whom Mother Church had...Read more of this...

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