Famous Linings Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Smugglers Song

by Rudyard Kipling
 If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,
Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street.
Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie.
Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
 Five and twenty ponies,
 Trotting through the dark --
 Brandy for the Parson,
 'Baccy for the Clerk;
 Laces for a lady, letters...Read more of this...

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