Famous Pawed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Working Party

...nch, 
Sliding and poising, groping with his boots; 
Sometimes he tripped and lurched against the walls 
With hands that pawed the sodden bags of chalk. 
He couldn't see the man who walked in front; 
Only he heard the drum and rattle of feet 
Stepping along barred trench boards, often splashing 
Wretchedly where the sludge was ankle-deep.

Voices would grunt `Keep to your right -- make way!' 
When squeezing past some men from the front-line: 
White faces peered, puffing a poin...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried


Buffalo Dusk

...THE BUFFALOES are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Those who saw the buffaloes by thousands and how they pawed the prairie sod into dust with their hoofs, their great heads down pawing on in a great pageant of dusk,
Those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
And the buffaloes are gone....Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

Cain and Abel

...l-goad instead,
But--Cain hit first and dropped him dead!

The Herd-bulls ran when they smelt the blood,
An' horned an' pawed in that Red Mud.
The Calves they bawled, and the Steers they milled,
Because it was the First Man Killed; -
An' the whole Herd broke for the Land of Nod, 
An' Cain was left to be judged by God!

But, seein' all he had had to bear,
I never could call the Judgment fair!...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

How Samson Bore Away the Gates of Gaza

...crunched in thunder over the moon.
And Samson shouted to the sky:
"My Lord, my Lord is riding high."

Like a steed, he pawed the gates with his hoof.
He rattled the gates like rocks on the roof,
And danced in the night
On the mountain-top,
Danced in the deep of the night:
The Judge, the holy Nazarite,
Whom ropes and chains could never bind.

Let Samson 
Be coming 
Into your mind.

Whirling his arms, like a top he sped.
His long black hair flew round his head
Like an outstret...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel

The Ballad Of Touch-The-Button Nell

...bstruction in the shape of Lew lamore.

It caught him up, and spun him round, and tossed him like a ball;
It played and pawed him in the air, before it let him fall.
Then just to show what it could do, with savage rend and thud,
It ripped the entrails from his spine, and dropped him in the mud.

They gathered up the broken bones, and sadly in a sack,
They bore to town the last remains of Lew Lamore, the macque.
And would you hear the full details of how it all befell,
Ask Mis...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


The Fear

...woman in the door
And threw their lurching shadows on a house
Near by, all dark in every glossy window.
A horse's hoof pawed once the hollow floor,
And the back of the gig they stood beside
Moved in a little. The man grasped a wheel,
The woman spoke out sharply, "Whoa, stand still!"
"I saw it just as plain as a white plate,"
She said, "as the light on the dashboard ran
Along the bushes at the roadside--a man's face.
You must have seen it too."
"I didn't see it.
Are you sure-...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert

The Princess (part 1)

...among a world of ghosts, 
And feel myself the shadow of a dream. 
Our great court-Galen poised his gilt-head cane, 
And pawed his beard, and muttered 'catalepsy'. 
My mother pitying made a thousand prayers; 
My mother was as mild as any saint, 
Half-canonized by all that looked on her, 
So gracious was her tact and tenderness: 
But my good father thought a king a king; 
He cared not for the affection of the house; 
He held his sceptre like a pedant's wand 
To lash offence, an...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Princess (part 3)

...ens, higher by the head, 
Her back against a pillar, her foot on one 
Of those tame leopards. Kittenlike he rolled 
And pawed about her sandal. I drew near; 
I gazed. On a sudden my strange seizure came 
Upon me, the weird vision of our house: 
The Princess Ida seemed a hollow show, 
Her gay-furred cats a painted fantasy, 
Her college and her maidens, empty masks, 
And I myself the shadow of a dream, 
For all things were and were not. Yet I felt 
My heart beat thick with pass...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord

The Rivals

...ve it hurt me; well,
It would n't be'n so bad, you see,
But he jest kep' a-hittin' me.
An' I hit back an' kicked an' pawed,
But 't seemed 't was mostly air I clawed,
While Zekel used his science well
A-makin' every motion tell.
He punched an' hit, why, goodness lands,
Seemed like he had a dozen hands.
Well, afterwhile they stopped the fuss,
An' some one kindly parted us.
All beat an' cuffed an' clawed an' scratched,
An' needin' both our faces patched,
Each starte...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul

The Working Party

...nch, 
Sliding and poising, groping with his boots; 
Sometimes he tripped and lurched against the walls 
With hands that pawed the sodden bags of chalk. 
He couldn't see the man who walked in front; 
Only he heard the drum and rattle of feet 
Stepping along barred trench boards, often splashing 
Wretchedly where the sludge was ankle-deep.

Voices would grunt `Keep to your right -- make way!' 
When squeezing past some men from the front-line: 
White faces peered, puffing a poin...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

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