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Famous Nine Times Poems by Famous Poets

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by Burns, Robert
...d bluid o’ auld Boconnock’s, 11
I’ll be his debt twa mashlum bonnocks,
An’ drink his health in auld Nance Tinnock’s 12
 Nine times a-week,
If he some scheme, like tea an’ winnocks,
 Was kindly seek.


Could he some commutation broach,
I’ll pledge my aith in guid braid Scotch,
He needna fear their foul reproach
 Nor erudition,
Yon mixtie-maxtie, ***** hotch-potch,
 The Coalition.


Auld Scotland has a raucle tongue;
She’s just a devil wi’ a rung;
An’ if she promise aul...Read more of this...



by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...aw is falling,
The red cheek paling,
The strong limbs failing;
Ice with the warm blood mixing;
The eyeballs fixing.
Nine times goes the passing bell:
Ye merry souls, farewell.
 The old earth
 Had a birth,
 As all men know,
 Long ago.
And the old earth must die.
So let the warm winds range,
And the blue wave beat the shore;
For even and morn
Ye will never see
Thro' eternity.
All things were born.
Ye will come never more,
For all things must die....Read more of this...

by Tebb, Barry
...broglios of stars on the floor

Meet me by the Office Lock

At midnight or by the Town Hall Clock.



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Nennius nine times have I knocked

On the door of your grave, nine times

More have I made Pilgrimage to Elmete’s

Wood where long I lay by beck and bank

Waiting for your tongue to flame

With Pentecostal fire.





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Margaret you rode in the hollow of my hand

In the harp of my heart, searching for you

I wandered in Kirkgate Market’s midnight

Down avenue...Read more of this...

by Plath, Sylvia
...
The grave cave ate will be
At home on me
And I a smiling woman.
I am only thirty.
And like the cat I have nine times to die.
This is Number Three.
What a trash
To annihilate each decade.
What a million filaments.
The Peanut-crunching crowd
Shoves in to see
Them unwrap me hand in foot ------
The big strip tease.
Gentleman , ladies
These are my hands
My knees.
I may be skin and bone,
Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman...Read more of this...

by Milton, John
...ottomless perdition, there to dwell 
In adamantine chains and penal fire, 
Who durst defy th' Omnipotent to arms. 
 Nine times the space that measures day and night 
To mortal men, he, with his horrid crew, 
Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf, 
Confounded, though immortal. But his doom 
Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought 
Both of lost happiness and lasting pain 
Torments him: round he throws his baleful eyes, 
That witnessed huge affliction and dis...Read more of this...



by Whitman, Walt
...ad form’d in a hollow square, with their baggage for
 breastworks;
Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemy’s, nine times their number,
 was the price they took in advance; 
Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone; 
They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv’d writing and seal, gave
 up their arms, and march’d back prisoners of war. 

They were the glory of the race of rangers; 
Matchless with horse, rifle, song, supper, courtship,
Lar...Read more of this...

by Frost, Robert
...one of them. 
They have best right to be heard in this place." 
"You seem so partial to our great-grandmother 
(Nine times removed. Correct me if I err.) 
You will be likely to regard as sacred 
Anything she may say. But let me warn you, 
Folks in her day were given to plain speaking. 
You think you'd best tempt her at such a time?" 
"It rests with us always to cut her off." 
"Well then, it's Granny speaking: 'I dunnow! 
Mebbe I'm wrong to take it ...Read more of this...

by Lehman, David
...hat,"
which sounds great in an English accent.

One year they broke up seven times and threatened to do it
 another nine times.

When a woman loves a man, she wants him to meet her at the
 airport in a foreign country with a jeep.
When a man loves a woman he's there. He doesn't complain that
 she's two hours late
and there's nothing in the refrigerator.

When a woman loves a man, she wants to stay awake.
She's like a child crying
at nightfall because s...Read more of this...

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