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Famous Old Nick Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...6a} The nicor, says Bugge, is a hippopotamus; a walrus, says Ten Brink. But that water-goblin who covers the space from Old Nick of jest to the Neckan and Nix of poetry and tale, is all one needs, and Nicor is a good name for him.

{6b} His own people, the Geats.

{6c} That is, cover it as with a face-cloth. “There will be no need of funeral rites.”

{6d} Personification of Battle.

{6e} The Germanic Vulcan.

{6f} This mighty power, whom the Christian poet can still...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,



...d straight, 
 Left us at Aetna light; 
 He left us to investigate 
 What made the mountain bright; 
 "I mean to ask Old Nick himself, 
 (And here his eye he rolls) 
 If I can't bring Newcastle pelf 
 By selling him some coals!" 
 
 In Calabree, a lass and cup 
 Drove scowling Spada wild: 
 She only held her finger up, 
 And there he drank and smiled; 
 And over in Gaëta Bay, 
 Ascanio—ashore 
 A fool!—must wed a widow gay 
 Who'd buried three or four. 
 
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by Hugo, Victor

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