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Famous Lazing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...longer chomp and champ

In stalls beneath the slats of shadowed lofts with straw-bales

And hay-ricks as high as houses lazing in lantern light.

The ashes of the carts they pulled have smouldered into silence,

The clatter over cobbles of iron shoes and shouts of “Whoa, lass!”

Hushed in this last weariness....Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry



...Red cows 
 on the asphalt road have settled. 
 Lazing on the asphalt pan they lie. 
 We drive them round 
 for cows are sacred! 
 They are loyal to the highway, 
 we wonder why. 

 "Old herdsman, we want our question answered: 
 Why have the cows gone mad?" "God forbid! 
 The point is that flies do not like asphalt." 
 Those modern cows! The are wise indeed! 


 They got it, the sly ones! Cattle of geniu...Read more of this...
by Voznesensky, Andrei
...ynamic to-day
Will gird him for the future fray
And lead us lion-like to-morrow.

The Greatest Man in all the world
Lay lazing like you or me,
Within a flimsy bathrobe curled
Upon a mattress by the sea:
He reached to pat a tou-tou's nose,
And scratched his torso now and then,
And scribbled with a fountain pen
What I assumed was jewelled prose.

And then methought he looked at me,
And hailed me with a gesture grand;
His fingers made the letter "V,"
So I, too, went to raise my ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...Last summer, lazing by the sea, 
I met a most entrancing creature, 
Her black eyes quite bewildered me--- 
She had a Spanish cast of feature.

She often smoked a cigarette, 
And did it in the cutest fashion. 
Before a week passed by she set 
My young heart in a raging passion.

I swore I loved her as my life, 
I gave her gems (don't tell my tailor). 
She promised to beco...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
...assion, 
When my clothes were in the fashion, 
When my beaux were never cross if I was late, 

There was sun enough for lazing upon beaches, 
There was fun enough for far into the night.
But I’m dying now and done for, 
What on earth was all the fun for? 
For I’m old and ill and terrified and tight....Read more of this...
by Betjeman, John



...blossoms,
Lulled by the hum of the bees, the coo of the ring-doves a-mating,
Peter would frivol his time at reading, or lazing, or dreaming.
"Peter!" his mother would call, "the cream is a'ready for churning!"
"Peter!" his father would cry, "go grub at the weeds in the garden!"
"Peter!" and "Peter!" all day--calling, reminding, and chiding--
Peter neglected his chores; therefore that outcry for Peter;
Therefore the neighbors allowed evil would surely befall him--
Yes, on acco...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene

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