Famous Lin Poems by Famous Poets

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

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152. Extempore in the Court of Session

...rdship sat wi’ ruefu’ e’e,
 And ey’d the gathering storm, man:
Like wind-driven hail it did assail’
 Or torrents owre a lin, man:
The BENCH sae wise, lift up their eyes,
 Half-wauken’d wi’ the din, man....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


307. Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson

...exil’d.


Ye hills, near neighbours o’ the starns,
That proudly cock your cresting cairns!
Ye cliffs, the haunts of sailing earns,
 Where Echo slumbers!
Come join, ye Nature’s sturdiest bairns,
 My wailing numbers!


Mourn, ilka grove the cushat kens!
Ye haz’ly shaws and briery dens!
Ye burnies, wimplin’ down your glens,
 Wi’ toddlin din,
Or foaming, strang, wi’ hasty stens,
 Frae lin to lin.


Mourn, little harebells o’er the lea;
Ye stately foxgloves, fair to see;
Ye woodb...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

Ding, Dong, Bell

...Ding, dong, bell,Pussy's in the well!Who put her in?Little Tommy Lin.Who pulled her out?Little Johnny Stout.What a naughty boy was that,To try to drown poor pussy-cat.Who never did him any harm,But killed the mice in his father's barn!...Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother

Part 5 of Trout Fishing in America

...
 Worsewick was nothing fancy.

 Then I came, and just cleared her in a split secondlike

an airplane in the movies, pulling out of a nosedive and sail-

ing over the roof of a school.

 My sperm came out into the water, unaccustomed to the

light, and instantly it became a misty, stringy kind of thing

and swirled out like a falling star, and I saw a dead fishcome

forward and float into my sperm, bending it in the middle.

His eyes were stiff like iron.










 THE SHIPP...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

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