Famous Jolthead Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Jolthead poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous jolthead poems. These examples illustrate what a famous jolthead poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...ye think I would waste my good pit-coal on the hide of a brain-sick fool?
I see no worth in the hobnailed mirth or the jolthead jest ye did
That I should waken my gentlemen that are sleeping three on a grid."
Then Tomlinson looked back and forth, and there was little grace,
For Hell-Gate filled the houseless Soul with the Fear of Naked Space.
"Nay, this I ha' heard," quo' Tomlinson, "and this was noised abroad,
And this I ha' got from a Belgian book on the word of a dead Fre...Read more of this...
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Kipling, Rudyard
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