Famous Mou Poems by Famous Poets

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

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265. Song—Young Jockie was the Blythest Lad

...danc’d he in the ha’.


He roos’d my een sae bonie blue,
 He roos’d my waist sae genty sma’;
An’ aye my heart cam to my mou’,
 When ne’er a body heard or saw.


My Jockie toils upon the plain,
 Thro’ wind and weet, thro’ frost and snaw:
And o’er the lea I leuk fu’ fain,
 When Jockie’s owsen hameward ca’.


An’ aye the night comes round again,
 When in his arms he taks me a’;
An’ aye he vows he’ll be my ain,
 As lang’s he has a breath to draw....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


273. Song—Tam Glen

...f it’s ordain’d I maun take him,
 O wha will I get but Tam Glen!


Yestreen at the Valentine’s dealing,
 My heart to my mou’ gied a sten’;
For thrice I drew ane without failing,
 And thrice it was written “Tam Glen”!


The last Halloween I was waukin
 My droukit sark-sleeve, as ye ken,
His likeness came up the house staukin,
 And the very grey breeks o’ Tam Glen!


Come, counsel, dear Tittie, don’t tarry;
 I’ll gie ye my bonie black hen,
Gif ye will advise me to marry
 The la...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

326. Song—The Posie

...y ain dear May.


I’ll pu’ the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view,
For it’s like a baumy kiss o’ her sweet, bonie mou;
The hyacinth’s for constancy wi’ its unchanging blue,
 And a’ to be a Posie to my ain dear May.


The lily it is pure, and the lily it is fair,
And in her lovely bosom I’ll place the lily there;
The daisy’s for simplicity and unaffected air,
 And a’ to be a Posie to my ain dear May.


The hawthorn I will pu’, wi’ its locks o’ siller gray,
Where, like an...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

370. Song—Sic a Wife as Willie had

...twa the very colour;
Five rusty teeth, forbye a stump,
 A clapper tongue wad deave a miller:
A whiskin beard about her mou’,
 Her nose and chin they threaten ither;
Sic a wife as Willie had,
 I wadna gie a button for her!


She’s bow-hough’d, she’s hein-shin’d,
 Ae limpin leg a hand-breed shorter;
She’s twisted right, she’s twisted left,
 To balance fair in ilka quarter:
She has a lump upon her breast,
 The twin o’ that upon her shouther;
Sic a wife as Willie had,
 I wadna g...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

525. Song—Had I the wyte she bade me

...t wife but wad excus’d her!


I dighted aye her e’en sae blue,
 An’ bann’d the cruel randy,
And weel I wat, her willin’ mou
 Was sweet as sugar-candie.
At gloamin-shot, it was I wot,
 I lighted on the Monday;
But I cam thro’ the Tyseday’s dew,
 To wanton Willie’s brandy....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


74. Fragment—Her Flwoing Locks

...nto that breast to cling,
 And round that neck entwine her!


Her lips are roses wat wi’ dew,
O’ what a feast her bonie mou’!
Her cheeks a mair celestial hue,
 A crimson still diviner!...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

75. Halloween

...they’re sobbin:
Nell’s heart was dancin at the view;
 She whisper’d Rob to leuk for’t:
Rob, stownlins, prie’d her bonie mou’,
 Fu’ cozie in the neuk for’t,
 Unseen that night.


But Merran sat behint their backs,
 Her thoughts on Andrew Bell:
She lea’es them gashin at their cracks,
 An’ slips out-by hersel’;
She thro’ the yard the nearest taks,
 An’ for the kiln she goes then,
An’ darklins grapit for the bauks,
 And in the blue-clue 9 throws then,
 Right fear’t that night.


...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

Little Jamie

...As my ain curly fair-hair'd laddie, Little Jamie. 

The laddie is handsome and fair to be seen,
He has a bonnie cheerie mou', and taw blue e'en,
And he prattles like an auld grandfaither richt merrily;
He's the funniest little laddie that ever I did see,
My ain curly fair-hair'd Iaddie, Little Jamie. 

Whene'er that he kens I am coming hame frae my wark,
He runs oot tae meet me as cheerful as the lark,
And he says, faither, I'm wanting just a'e bawbee,
My ain curly fair-hair'...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

Maid of Athens ere we part

...give back my heart! 
Or, since that has left my breast, 
Keep it now, and take the rest! 
Hear my vow before I go, 
Zo? mou sas agapo. 

By those tresses unconfined, 
Wooed by each Aegean wind; 
By those lids whose jetty fringe 
Kiss thy soft cheeks' blooming tinge; 
By those wild eyes like the roe, 
Zo? mou sas agapo. 

By that lip I long to taste; 
By that zone-encircled waist; 
By all the token-flowers that tell 
What words can never speak so well; 
By love's alternate joy...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The Bonnie Lass o Dundee

...her to me
The bonnie broon-hair'd lassie o' Bonnie Dundee. 

The lassie is as handsome
As the lily on the lea,
And her mou' it is as red
As a cherry on the tree;
And she's a' the world to me,
The bonnie broon-hair'd lassie
Wi' the bonnie blue e'e,
She's the joy o' my heart
And the flower o' Dundee....Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

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