Famous Leered Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Let It Enfold You

...hese things were
dumb,unsophisticated.
I had bad blood,a twisted
mind, a pecarious
upbringing.

I was hard as granite,I
leered at the 
sun.
I trusted no man and
especially no
woman.

I was living a hell in
small rooms, I broke
things, smashed things,
walked through glass,
cursed.
I challenged everything,
was continually being
evicted,jailed,in and
out of fights,in and aout
of my mind.
women were something
to screw and rail
at,i had no male
freinds,

I changed jobs and
cities,...Read more of this...
by Bukowski, Charles


Nine Little Goblins

...th a fist that grew on the end of his tail
 Till the breath came back to his lips so pale.

And the third little Goblin leered round at me---
 And there were no lids on his eyes at all---
And he clucked one eye, and he says, says he,
 "What is the style of your socks this fall ?"
 And he clapped his heels---and I sighed to see
 That he had hands where his feet should be.

Then a bald-faced Goblin, gray and grim,
 Bowed his head, and I saw him slip
His eyebrows off, as I looke...Read more of this...
by Riley, James Whitcomb

The Ballad Of The Ice-Worm Cocktail

...nger-tips.
Into his starry cocktail with a look of woe he peered,
And its ice-worm, to his thinking, mosy incontinently leered.
Yet on him were a hundred eyes, though no one spoke aloud,
For hushed with expectation was the waiting, watching crowd.
The Major's fumbling hand went forth - the gang prepared to cheer;
The Major's falt'ring hand went back, the mob prepared to jeer,
The Major gripped his gleaming glass and laid it to his lips,
And as despairfully he took some nausea...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The House Of Dust: Complete (Long)

...that seemed to hover and vanish
Upon her lips . . .

Until he knew he loved this quiet lady;
And night by night a dread
Leered at his dreams, for he knew that Hiroshigi
Was many centuries dead,—

And the lady, too, was dead, and all who knew her . .
Dead, and long turned to dust . . .
The thin moon waxed and waned, and left him paler,
The peach leaves flew in a gust,

And he would surely have died; but there one day
A wise man, white with age,
Stared at the portrait, and said...Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad

The House Of Dust: Part 03: 02: The Screen Maiden

...that seemed to hover and vanish
Upon her lips . . .

Until he knew he loved this quiet lady;
And night by night a dread
Leered at his dreams, for he knew that Hiroshigi
Was many centuries dead,—

And the lady, too, was dead, and all who knew her . .
Dead, and long turned to dust . . .
The thin moon waxed and waned, and left him paler,
The peach leaves flew in a gust,

And he would surely have died; but there one day
A wise man, white with age,
Stared at the portrait, and said...Read more of this...
by Aiken, Conrad


The Rain and the Wind

...the wild sunrise?

Ever the rain -- the rain and the wind!
Come, hunch with me over the fire,
Dream of the dreams that leered and grinned,
Ere the blood of the Year got chilled and thinned,
And the death came on desire!...Read more of this...
by Henley, William Ernest

The Road To Haworth Moor

...off instead;

It seemed as if it grew beneath our very skins and circled

With our blood and hammered at our heads and leered from specks

Of fluff beneath the bed. The wainscot was the worst, it seemed

No whitewashed wall was free from cavities that wound behind

And joined another maze of runs that opened to the boards of yet

Another floor, until the tiny house had grown to one great rat-run

Vaster than the universe, where that single rodent gnawed and slithered

To uns...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

The Sins of Kalamazoo

...yard and a ball grounds
And a short order counter where a man can get a stack of wheats
And a pool hall where a rounder leered confidential like and said:
“Lookin’ for a quiet game?”

The loafer lagged along and asked,
“Do you make guitars here?
Do you make boxes the singing wood winds ask to sleep in?
Do you rig up strings the singing wood winds sift over and sing low?”
The answer: “We manufacture musical instruments here.”

Here I saw churches with steeples like hatpins,
Un...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

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