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Famous Kennedy Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...FAREWELL, dear friend! may guid luck hit you,
And ’mang her favourites admit you:
If e’er Detraction shore to smit you,
 May nane believe him,
And ony deil that thinks to get you,
 Good Lord, deceive him...Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...NOW, Kennedy, if foot or horse
E’er bring you in by Mauchlin corse,
(Lord, man, there’s lasses there wad force
 A hermit’s fancy;
An’ down the gate in faith they’re worse,
 An’ mair unchancy).


But as I’m sayin, please step to Dow’s,
An’ taste sic gear as Johnie brews,
Till some bit callan bring me news
 That ye are there;
An’ if we dinna hae a bouze,
 I’se ...Read more of this...

by Tebb, Barry
...ted,

"Man the barricades!"

A tirade of nature-paths and voters

For a poetry of love mixed it with

The chuckers-out; Kennedy, Morley

And Hulse suffered a sharp repulse.

Heath-Stubbs was making death stabs

With his blindman’s stick at the ankles

Of detractors from his position under

The high table of chivalry, intoning

A prayer to raise the spirit

Of Sidney Keyes.

Geoffrey Hill had Merlin and Arthur

Beside him and was whirling an axe

To great effect, headl...Read more of this...

by Dunbar, William
...entil Stobo and Quintin Shaw, 
Of quhom all wichtis hes pitie:-- 
 Timor Mortis conturbat me. 

Good Maister Walter Kennedy 
In point of Death lies verily; 
Great ruth it were that so suld be:-- 
 Timor Mortis conturbat me. 

Sen he has all my brether tane, 
He will naught let me live alane; 
Of force I man his next prey be:-- 
 Timor Mortis conturbat me. 

Since for the Death remeid is none, 
Best is that we for Death dispone, 
After our death that live may we:--...Read more of this...

by Crowley, Aleister
..."To Lionel Engers-Kennedy: to the memory of Hargrave Jennings: and
to A. C. W. G. and H. E. H."


Beneath the vine tree and the fig
Where mortal cares may not intrude,
On melon and on sucking pig
Although their brains are bright and big
Banquet the Great White Brotherhood.

Among the fountains and the trees
That fringed his garden's glowing bor...Read more of this...



by Brown, Fleda
...copied to whatever lover she takes. 
He will fracture and change to landscape, to the Pope, maybe, 
or President Kennedy, or to a pain that darkens her eyes. 

"Once," she will say, as if she remembers, 
and the memory will stick like a fishbone. She knows 
how easily she will comply when a man puts his hand 
on the back of her neck and gently steers her. 
She knows how long she will wait for rescue, how the world 
will go on expanding outside. S...Read more of this...

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