Famous Kerry Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Kerry poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous kerry poems. These examples illustrate what a famous kerry poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Laurence Dunbar, Paul
...r hire.
But I never would 'a' murmured
An' the matter might 'a' gone
Ef it was n't fur the antics
'At I've seen 'em kerry on;
So I thought it was my dooty
Fur to come to you an' ask
Ef you would n't sort o' gently
Take them singin' folks to task.
Fust, the music they 've be'n singin'
Will disgrace us mighty soon;
It 's a cross between a opry
An' a ol' cotillion tune.
With its dashes an' its quavers
An' its hifalutin style—
Why, it sets my head to swimmin'
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by
Padel, Ruth
..., bards
and rhymers. Desmonds
and Fitzgeralds
*
stuck on low spikes,
an avenue of heads to
the war tent.
*
Kerry timber
sold to the Canaries.
Pregnant girls
*
hung in their own hair
on city walls. Plague
crumpling gargoyles
*
through Munster. "They spoke
like ghosts crying
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by
Yeats, William Butler
...Sing of the O'Rahilly
That had such little sense
He told Pearse and Connolly
He'd gone to great expense
Keeping all the Kerry men
Out of that crazy fight;
That he might be there himself
Had travelled half the night.
How goes the weather?
'Am I such a craven that
I should not get the word
But for what some travelling man
Had heard I had not heard?'
Then on pearse and Connolly
He fixed a bitter look:
'Because I helped to wind the clock
I come to hear it strike.'
How ...Read more of this...
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