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Famous Prattling Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...glee.
 His wee bit ingle, blinkin bonilie,
His clean hearth-stane, his thrifty wifie’s smile,
 The lisping infant, prattling on his knee,
Does a’ his weary kiaugh and care beguile,
And makes him quite forget his labour and his toil.


Belyve, the elder bairns come drapping in,
 At service out, amang the farmers roun’;
Some ca’ the pleugh, some herd, some tentie rin
 A cannie errand to a neibor town:
 Their eldest hope, their Jenny, woman-grown,
In youthfu’ bloom-love...Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...blink o’ rest’s a sweet enjoyment.
 The dearest comfort o’ their lives,
Their grushie weans an’ faithfu’ wives;
The prattling things are just their pride,
That sweetens a’ their fire-side.
 An’ whiles twalpennie worth o’ nappy
Can mak the bodies unco happy:
They lay aside their private cares,
To mind the Kirk and State affairs;
They’ll talk o’ patronage an’ priests,
Wi’ kindling fury i’ their breasts,
Or tell what new taxation’s comin,
An’ ferlie at the folk in Lon’on...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...head upon her hands, remembering 
Her thought when first she came, wept the sad Queen. 
Then said the little novice prattling to her, 
`O pray you, noble lady, weep no more; 
But let my words, the words of one so small, 
Who knowing nothing knows but to obey, 
And if I do not there is penance given-- 
Comfort your sorrows; for they do not flow 
From evil done; right sure am I of that, 
Who see your tender grace and stateliness. 
But weigh your sorrows with our lord th...Read more of this...

by Hugo, Victor
...virgin soul, that spotless lives 
 In virgin body sweet. 
 
 Oh, gentle face, radiant with happy smile, 
 And eager prattling tongue that knows no guile, 
 Quick changing tears and bliss; 
 Thy soul expands to catch this new world's light, 
 Thy mazed eyes to drink each wondrous sight, 
 Thy lips to taste the kiss. 
 
 Oh, God! bless me and mine, and these I love, 
 And e'en my foes that still triumphant prove 
 Victors by force or guile; 
 A flowerless summer ma...Read more of this...

by Field, Eugene
...it is kissing time.

Sometimes, maybe, he wanders
A heedless, aimless way -
Sometimes, maybe, he loiters
In pretty, prattling play;
But presently bethinks him
And hastens to me then,
For it's half-past kissing time
And time to kiss again!...Read more of this...



by Hugo, Victor
...meet the view; 
 The sturdy warrior with a thoughtful face— 
 The am'rous youth, the maid replete with grace, 
 The prattling infant, and the hoary hair 
 Of second childhood's proselytes—are there;— 
 And the most gaudy in that spacious hall, 
 Are e'er the young, or oldest of them all 
 Helmet and banner, ornament and crest, 
 The lion rampant, and the jewelled vest, 
 The silver star that glitters fair and white, 
 The arms that tell of many a nation's might— 
...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Mary Darby
...o confirm his care--
STEPHEN was dark ,--and KATE was fair!
Nay more that "home his bride would bring
"A little, alien, prattling thing
"In just six moons!" Poor LUBIN hears
All that confirms his jealous fears;
Perplex'd and frantic, what to do
The cheated Lover scarcely knew.
He flies to KATE, and straight he tells
The wonder that in magic dwells!
Speaks of the Fortune-telling crew,
And how all things the Vagrants knew;
KATE hears: and soon determines, she
Will know her ...Read more of this...

by Hugo, Victor
...Vous eûtes donc hier un an.") 
 
 {September, 1870.} 


 You've lived a year, then, yesterday, sweet child, 
 Prattling thus happily! So fledglings wild, 
 New-hatched in warmer nest 'neath sheltering bough, 
 Chirp merrily to feel their feathers grow. 
 Your mouth's a rose, Jeanne! In these volumes grand 
 Whose pictures please you—while I trembling stand 
 To see their big leaves tattered by your hand— 
 Are noble lines; but nothing half your worth, 
 When ...Read more of this...

by Crashaw, Richard
...ad mirth,
Bring All your houshold stuffe of Heavn on earth;
O you, my Soul’s most certain Wings,
Complaining Pipes, and prattling Strings,
Bring All the store
Of Sweets you have; And murmur that you have no more.
Come, n? to part,
Nature and Art!
Come; and come strong,
To the conspiracy of our Spatious song.
Bring All the Powres of Praise
Your Provinces of well-united Worlds can raise;
Bring All your Lutes and Harps of Heaven and Earth;
What ?re cooperates to The comm...Read more of this...

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