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Famous Rattons Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...of hell, at the sound of a drum.


RecitativoHe ended; and the kebars sheuk,
 Aboon the chorus roar;
While frighted rattons backward leuk,
 An’ seek the benmost bore:
A fairy fiddler frae the neuk,
 He skirl’d out, encore!
But up arose the martial chuck,
 An’ laid the loud uproar.


AirTune—“Sodger Laddie.”I once was a maid, tho’ I cannot tell when,
And still my delight is in proper young men;
Some one of a troop of dragoons was my daddie,
No wonder I’m fond of a ...Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...
I sat and ey’d the spewing reek,
That fill’d, wi’ hoast-provoking smeek,
 The auld clay biggin;
An’ heard the restless rattons squeak
 About the riggin.


All in this mottie, misty clime,
I backward mus’d on wasted time,
How I had spent my youthfu’ prime,
 An’ done nae thing,
But stringing blethers up in rhyme,
 For fools to sing.


Had I to guid advice but harkit,
I might, by this, hae led a market,
Or strutted in a bank and clarkit
 My cash-account;
While here, hal...Read more of this...

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