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Famous Maurice Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tebb, Barry
...ar alarm

I hear the air raid

Siren’s song, Waterloo Road’s

Bomb hole big enough to hold

A bus that could not stop;

Maurice the butcher gave a

Crayoning book I filled in

Until the All Clear went;

I spent a childhood on

The spaces of Red Riding

Hood’s cloak and the gap

Between the Wolf’s teeth

I crayoned in with crimson.





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Ellerby Lane School stood

At the hill top, over the

Hollows, its onion dome and

Green railings grieved for the

Abandoned streets...Read more of this...



by Housman, A E
...your last at me, 
For I come home no more. 

"The sun burns on the half-mown hill, 
By now the blood is dried; 
And Maurice amongst the hay lies still 
And my knife is in his side. 

"My mother thinks us long away; 
'Tis time the field were mown. 
She had two sons at rising day, 
To-night she'll be alone. 

"And here's a bloody hand to shake, 
And oh, man, here's good-bye; 
We'll sweat no more on scythe and rake, 
My bloody hands and I. 

"I wish you stren...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...ee the woe,
The wanness of my frail decline.
I love him now and always will.
Oh may his star be long to set!
My Maurice is an idol still,--
What wreaths for Mistinguette!...Read more of this...

by Masters, Edgar Lee
...Maurice, weep not, I am not here under this pine tree.
The balmy air of spring whispers through the sweet grass,
The stars sparkle, the whippoorwill calls,
But thou grievest, while my soul lies rapturous
In the blest Nirvana of eternal light!
Go to the good heart that is my husband,
Who broods upon what he calls our guilty love: --
Tell him that my love ...Read more of this...

by Keats, John
...brand;
 He had a fever late, and in the fit
 He cursed thee and thine, both house and land:
 Then there's that old Lord Maurice, not a whit
 More tame for his gray hairs--Alas me! flit!
 Flit like a ghost away."--"Ah, Gossip dear,
 We're safe enough; here in this arm-chair sit,
 And tell me how"--"Good Saints! not here, not here;
Follow me, child, or else these stones will be thy bier."

 He follow'd through a lowly arched way,
 Brushing the cobwebs with his lofty plu...Read more of this...



by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...d all his hallows bright* *saints
So wisly* on my soule have mercy, *surely
That of your harm as guilteless am I,
As is Maurice my son, so like your face,
Else may the fiend me fetch out of this place."

Long was the sobbing and the bitter pain,
Ere that their woeful heartes mighte cease;
Great was the pity for to hear them plain,* *lament
Through whiche plaintes gan their woe increase.
I pray you all my labour to release,
I may not tell all their woe till to-morrow,
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