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Famous Pocks Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ativoSo sang the bard—and Nansie’s wa’s
Shook with a thunder of applause,
 Re-echo’d from each mouth!
They toom’d their pocks, they pawn’d their duds,
They scarcely left to co’er their fuds,
 To quench their lowin drouth:
Then owre again, the jovial thrang
 The poet did request
To lowse his pack an’ wale a sang,
 A ballad o’ the best;
 He rising, rejoicing,
 Between his twa Deborahs,
 Looks round him, an’ found them
 Impatient for the chorus.


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by Burns, Robert



...y 
lavender - 
unnoticed - 
but I discovered 
the colors in the wall that woke 
when spray from the hose 
played on its pocks and warts - 

a hazy red, a 
grain gold, a mauve 
of small shadows, sprung 
from the quiet dry brown - 
archetype 
of the world always a step 
beyond the world, that can't 
be looked for, only 
as the eye wanders, 
found....Read more of this...
by Levertov, Denise
...hy,
And saw a sad land, weak with sweats of dearth,
Gray, cratered like the moon with hollow woe,
And fitted with great pocks and scabs of plaques.

Across its beard, that horror of harsh wire,
There moved thin caterpillars, slowly uncoiled.
It seemed they pushed themselves to be as plugs
Of ditches, where they writhed and shrivelled, killed.

By them had slimy paths been trailed and scraped
Round myriad warts that might be little hills.

From gloom's last dregs these long-st...Read more of this...
by Owen, Wilfred

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