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Famous Laban Poems by Famous Poets

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...r, as Well as Boys of Nine or More!
33 But I Prefer far Duller Boys, who do Not Make such Awful Noise!

34 Oh, Laugh at LABAN, if you Will, but he was Brave when he was Ill.
35 When he was Ill, he was so Brave he Swallowed All his Mother Gave!
36 But Somehow, She could never Tell why he was Worse when he was Well!

37 If MICAH's Mother Told him 'No' he Made but Little of his Woe;
38 He Always Answered, 'Yes, I'll Try!' for MICAH Thought it Wrong to Cry.
39 Yet he was Always A...Read more of this...
by Burgess, Gelett



...burial row were sad.
One man's three women in a burial row
Somehow made her impatient with the man.
And so she said to Laban, "You have done
A good deal right; don't do the last thing wrong.
Don't make me lie with those two other women."

Laban said, No, he would not make her lie
With anyone but that she had a mind to,
If that was how she felt, of course, he said.
She went her way. But Laban having caught
This glimpse of lingering person in Eliza,
And anxious to make all he ...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert
...ueensland way a score of years ago. 

Now, Jacob knew the ways of stock—that’s most uncommon clear— 
For when he got to Laban’s Run, they made him overseer; 
He didn’t ask a pound a week, but bargained for his pay 
To take the roan and strawberry calves—the same we’d take to-day. 

The duns and blacks and “Goulburn roans” (that’s brindles), coarse and hard, 
He branded them with Laban’s brand, in Old Man Laban’s yard; 
So, when he’d done the station work for close on seven ye...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...n,
To find it when night falls laid on a golden bier.
Therein are many queens like Branwen and Guinevere;
And Niamh and Laban and Fand, who could change to an otter or fawn,
And the wood-woman, whose lover was changed to a blue-eyed hawk;
And whether I go in my dreams by woodland, or dun, or shore,
Or on the unpeopled waves with kings to pull at the oar,
I hear the harp-string praise them, or hear their mournful talk.

Because of something told under the famished horn
Of the ...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler

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