Famous Peggy Poems by Famous Poets

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

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13. Song—Bonie Peggy Alison

...Chor.—And I’ll kiss thee yet, yet,
 And I’ll kiss thee o’er again:
And I’ll kiss thee yet, yet,
 My bonie Peggy Alison.


ILK care and fear, when thou art near
 I evermair defy them, O!
Young kings upon their hansel throne
 Are no sae blest as I am, O!
 And I’ll kiss thee yet, yet, &c.


When in my arms, wi’ a’ thy charms,
 I clasp my countless treasure, O!
I seek nae mair o’ Heaven to share
 Than sic a moment’s pleasure, O!
 And I’ll kiss thee yet, yet, &c.


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


198. Song—Braving Angry Winer's Storms

...WHERE, braving angry winter’s storms,
 The lofty Ochils rise,
Far in their shade my Peggy’s charms
 First blest my wondering eyes;
As one who by some savage stream
 A lonely gem surveys,
Astonish’d, doubly marks it beam
 With art’s most polish’d blaze.


Blest be the wild, sequester’d shade,
 And blest the day and hour,
Where Peggy’s charms I first survey’d,
 When first I felt their pow’r!
The tyrant Death, with grim control,
 May seize my ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

30. Song—Composed in August

...the cruel sway,
 Tyrannic man’s dominion;
The sportsman’s joy, the murd’ring cry,
 The flutt’ring, gory pinion!


But, Peggy dear, the ev’ning’s clear,
 Thick flies the skimming swallow,
The sky is blue, the fields in view,
 All fading-green and yellow:
Come let us stray our gladsome way,
 And view the charms of Nature;
The rustling corn, the fruited thorn,
 And ev’ry happy creature.


We’ll gently walk, and sweetly talk,
 Till the silent moon shine clearly;
I’ll grasp thy w...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

538. Song—Now Spring has clad the grove in green

...thrall o’ care.


O had my fate been Greenland snows,
 Or Afric’s burning zone,
Wi’man and nature leagued my foes,
 So Peggy ne’er I’d known!
The wretch whose doom is “Hope nae mair”
 What tongue his woes can tell;
Within whase bosom, save Despair,
 Nae kinder spirits dwell....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

6. The Tarbolton Lasses

...IF ye gae up to yon hill-tap,
 Ye’ll there see bonie Peggy;
She kens her father is a laird,
 And she forsooth’s a leddy.


There Sophy tight, a lassie bright,
 Besides a handsome fortune:
Wha canna win her in a night,
 Has little art in courtin’.


Gae down by Faile, and taste the ale,
 And tak a look o’ Mysie;
She’s dour and din, a deil within,
 But aiblins she may please ye.


If she be shy, her sister try,
...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


72. Song—Young Peggy Blooms

...YOUNG Peggy blooms our boniest lass,
 Her blush is like the morning,
The rosy dawn, the springing grass,
 With early gems adorning.
Her eyes outshine the radiant beams
 That gild the passing shower,
And glitter o’er the crystal streams,
 And cheer each fresh’ning flower.


Her lips, more than the cherries bright,
 A richer dye has graced them;
They charm th’ admir...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

8. Song—Montgomerie's Peggy

...’ my bed were in yon muir,
 Amang the heather, in my plaidie;
Yet happy, happy would I be,
 Had I my dear Montgomerie’s Peggy.


When o’er the hill beat surly storms,
 And winter nights were dark and rainy;
I’d seek some dell, and in my arms
 I’d shelter dear Montgomerie’s Peggy.


Were I a baron proud and high,
 And horse and servants waiting ready;
Then a’ ’twad gie o’ joy to me,—
 The sharin’t with Montgomerie’s Peggy....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

A Letter to Lady Margaret Cavendish Holles-Harley when a Child

...MY noble, lovely, little Peggy, 
Let this my First Epistle beg ye, 
At dawn of morn, and close of even, 
To lift your heart and hands to Heaven. 
In double duty say your prayer: 
Our Father first, then Notre Pere. 

And, dearest child, along the day, 
In every thing you do and say, 
Obey and please my lord and lady, 
So God shall love and angels aid ye. 

If to these precepts you at...Read more of this...
by Prior, Matthew

Blind Mans Buff

...enny her silken 'kerchief folds,
And blear-eyed Will the black lot holds.
Now laughing stops, with `Silence! hush!'
And Peggy Pout gives Sam a push.
The Blind man's arms, extended wide,
Sam slips between:--`O woe betide
Thee, clumsy Will!'--but titt'ring Kate
Is penn'd up in the corner straight!
And now Will's eyes beheld the play;
He thought his face was t'other way.
`Now, Kitty, now! what chance hast thou,
Roger so near thee!--Trips, I vow!'
She catches him--then Roger ties...Read more of this...
by Blake, William

The Christmas Goose

...into his head. 

So the next morning,
Just as the sun rose,
He jump'd out of bed,
And he donn'd his clothes, 

Saying, "Peggy, my dear.
You need not frown,
For I'll buy you the best goose
In all London town." 

So away to the poultry shop he goes,
And bought the goose, as he did propose,
And for it he paid one crown,
The finest, he thought, in London town. 

When Smiggs bought the goose
He suspected no harm,
But a naughty boy stole it
From under his arm. 

Then Smiggs he crie...Read more of this...
by McGonagall, William Topaz

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