Famous Peg Poems by Famous Poets

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

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302. Elegy on Willie Nicol's Mare

...PEG NICHOLSON was a good bay mare,
 As ever trod on airn;
But now she’s floating down the Nith,
 And past the mouth o’ Cairn.


Peg Nicholson was a good bay mare,
 An’ rode thro’ thick and thin;
But now she’s floating down the Nith,
 And wanting even the skin.


Peg Nicholson was a good bay mare,
 And ance she bore a priest;
But now she’s floating down the N...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


507. Song—Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay

...nd dreary drift,
 The hills and glens are lost:


Ne’er sae murky blew the night
 That drifted o’er the hill,
But bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
 Gat grist to her mill....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

A Dream of the Melbourne Cup

...out and the charming cham., 
I've got to mix my liquor; 
Give me a gander's gaunt hind leg, 
Hard and tough as a wooden peg, 
And I'll keep it down with a hard-boiled egg, 
'Twill make me dream the quicker. 

Now that I'm full of fearful feed, 
Oh, but I'll dream of a winner indeed 
In my restless, troubled slumber; 
While the night-mares race through my heated brain 
And their devil-riders spur amain, 
The trip for the Cup will reward my pain, 
And I'll spot the winning numb...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

A Man Young And Old: X. His Wildness

...O bid me mount and sail up there
Amid the cloudy wrack,
For peg and Meg and Paris' love
That had so straight a back,
Are gone away, and some that stay
Have changed their silk for sack.

Were I but there and none to hear
I'd have a peacock cry,
For that is natural to a man
That lives in memory,
Being all alone I'd nurse a stone
And sing it lullaby....Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler

A Terre

...ands now; never shall.
Both arms have mutinied against me -- brutes.
My fingers fidget like ten idle brats.

I tried to peg out soldierly -- no use!
One dies of war like any old disease.
This bandage feels like pennies on my eyes.
I have my medals? -- Discs to make eyes close.
My glorious ribbons? -- Ripped from my own back
In scarlet shreds. (That's for your poetry book.)

A short life and a merry one, my brick!
We used to say we'd hate to live dead old, --
Yet now . . . I'd...Read more of this...
by Owen, Wilfred


Bridge Over The Aire Book 6

...Nostrils flared and they bared their teeth

As we passed and tossed their manes as we

Shied from the rusty fence where peg-legged

We jumped the cracks and pulled away each

Dandelion head, “Pee-the-bed! Pee-the bed!”

Rubbing the yellow dust into each other’s

Cheeks and chins as we kissed.





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The bluebells had died and on the other side

The nettle beds were filled with broken branches

White as bone, clouds were tags of wool, the

Night sky magenta sands with bands...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

Disabled

...e he liked a bloodsmear down his leg,
After the matches carried shoulder-high.
It was after football, when he'd drunk a peg,
He thought he'd better join. He wonders why . . .
Someone had said he'd look a god in kilts.

That's why; and maybe, too, to please his Meg,
Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts,
He asked to join. He didn't have to beg;
Smiling they wrote his lie; aged nineteen years.
Germans he scarcely thought of; and no fears
Of Fear came yet. He thought of je...Read more of this...
by Owen, Wilfred

It ceased to hurt me though so slow

...-

Nor when it altered, I could say,
For I had worn it, every day,
As constant as the Childish frock --
I hung upon the Peg, at night.

But not the Grief -- that nestled close
As needles -- ladies softly press
To Cushions Cheeks --
To keep their place --

Nor what consoled it, I could trace --
Except, whereas 'twas Wilderness --
It's better -- almost Peace --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

On A Cape May Warbler Who Flew Against My Window

...ren
Who give her a decent burial
Under the dogwood in the garden.

They lay their gifs in the grave:
Matches, a clothes-peg, a coin;
Fire paper for her, sprinkle her
With water, fold earth over her.

She is out of her element forever
Who was air's high-spirited daughter;
What guardian wings can I conjure
Over my own young, their migrations?

The children retreat indoors.
Shadows flicker in the tall spruce.
Small birds flicker like shadows--
Ghosts come nest in my branches....Read more of this...
by Grennan, Eamon

Phillis Or the Progress of Love

...ined a Limb 
When first she ventur'd out with him. 
John wish't, that he had broke a Leg 
When first for her he quitted Peg. 
But what Adventures more befell 'em 
The Muse hath now no time to tell 'em. 
How Jonny wheadled, threatned, fawnd, 
Till Phillis all her Trinkets pawn'd: 
How oft she broke her marriage Vows 
In kindness to maintain her Spouse; 
Till Swains unwholsome spoyled the Trade, 
For now the Surgeon must be paid; 
To whom those Perquisites are gone 
In Christia...Read more of this...
by Swift, Jonathan

Preaching Vs Practice

...t in your carriage, 
And counsel the man on foot, 
But get down and walk, and you'll change your talk, 
As you feel the peg in your boot.

It is easy to tell the toiler
How best he can carry his pack, 
But no one can rate a burden's weight
Until it has been on his back.

The up-curled mouth of pleasure, 
Can prate of sorrow's worth, 
But give it a sip, and a wryer lip, 
Was never made on earth....Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

The Ballad of G. R. Dibbs

...nd she ought to be glad to be smiled upon, 
And proud to be known as our hanger-on." 

And G. R. Dibbs, he went off his peg 
At the swells who came for his smiles to beg 
And the Prince of Wales -- who was pulling his leg 

And he told them all when the wine had flown, 
"The Australian has got no land of his own, 
His home is England, and there alone." 

So he strutted along with the titled band 
And he sold the pride of his native land 
For a bow and a smile and a shake of t...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

The Ballad Of Hard-Luck Henry

...reasure-trove;
When suddenly he paused and held aloft a Yukon egg,
For there in pencilled letters was the magic name of Peg.

You know these Yukon eggs of ours--some pink, some green, some blue--
A dollar per, assorted tints, assorted flavors too.
The supercilious cheechako might designate them high,
But one acquires a taste for them and likes them by-and-by.
Well, Hard-Luck Henry took this egg and held it to the light,
And there was more faint pencilling that sorely taxed hi...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Ballad of the Kings Jest

...twilight, crisp and chill,
A kafila camped at the foot of the hill.
Then blue smoke-haze of the cooking rose,
And tent-peg answered to hammer-nose;
And the picketed ponies, shag and wild,
Strained at their ropes as the feed was piled;
And the bubbling camels beside the load
Sprawled for a furlong adown the road;
And the Persian pussy-cats, brought for sale,
Spat at the dogs from the camel-bale;
And the tribesmen bellowed to hasten the food;
And the camp-fires twinkled by For...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Conundrum of the Workshops

...n the darkened pane: "You did it, but was it Art?"

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice-peg,
We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg,
We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart;
But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: "It's clever, but is it Art?"

When the flicker of London sun falls faint on the Club-room's green and gold,
The sons of Adam sit them down and scratch with thei...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Fall of Jock Gillespie

...face?"

An' Jock he sniggered, an' Jock he smiled,
 An' ower the card-brim wunk: --
"I'm a' too fresh fra' the stirrup-peg,
 "May be that I am drunk."

"There's whusky brewed in Galashils
 "An' L. L. L. forbye;
"But never liquor lit the lowe
 "That keeks fra' oot your eye.

"There's a third o' hair on your dress-coat breast,
 "Aboon the heart a wee?"
"Oh! that is fra' the lang-haired Skye
 "That slobbers ower me."

"Oh! lang-haired Skyes are lovin' beasts,
 "An' terrier dogs...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Gift

...se 
 and a little statue of eros. 
He gave her Genesis 2 (21-23). She gave him Genesis 1 (26-28). 
He gave her a square peg. She gave him a round hole. 
He gave her Long Beach on a late Sunday in September. She gave him zinnias 
 and cosmos in the plenitude of July. 
He gave her a camisole and a brooch. She gave him a cover and a break. 
He gave her Venice, Florida. She gave him Rome, New York. 
He gave her a false sense of security. She gave him a true sense of uncertainty. ...Read more of this...
by Lehman, David

The Rhyme of the Three Captains

...ast would not mend his boom, my deckhouse patch his boats;
He has whittled the two, this Yank Yahoo, to peddle for shoe-peg oats.
I could not fight for the failing light and a rough beam-sea beside,
But I hulled him once for a clumsy crimp and twice because he lied.
Had I had guns (as I had goods) to work my Christian harm,
I had run him up from his quarter-deck to trade with his own yard-arm;
I had nailed his ears to my capstan-head, and ripped them off with a saw,
And souse...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

The Shadow

...l,
No woman was in the room! His tall
Chiffonier stood gaunt behind
His chair. His old cloak, rabbit-lined,
Hung from a peg. The door was closed.
Just for a moment he must have dozed.
He looked again, and saw it plain.
The silhouette made a blue-black stain
On the opposite wall, and it never wavered
Even when the candle quavered
Under his panting breath. What made
That beautiful, dreadful thing, that shade
Of something so lovely, so exquisite,
Cast from a substance which the ...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

To the Unknown Goddess

...ean lesser lights I pursue,
And the charm of your presence shall lure me from love of the gay "thirteen-two";

When the peg and the pig-skin shall please not; when I buy me Calcutta-build clothes;
When I quit the Delight of Wild Asses; foreswearing the swearing of oaths ;

As a deer to the hand of the hunter when I turn 'mid the gibes of my friends;
When the days of my freedom are numbered, and the life of the bachelor ends.

Ah, Goddess! child, spinster, or widow -- as of ol...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

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