Famous Regulation Poems by Famous Poets

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MFingal - Canto IV

...n two weak crutches propp'd he stood,
That bent at every step he trod;
Gilt titles graced their sides so slender,
One, "Regulation," t'other, "Tender;"
His breastplate graved, with various dates,
"The Faith of all th' United States;"
Before him went his funeral pall,
His grave stood, dug to wait his fall.


"I started, and aghast I cried,
"What means this spectre at their side?
What danger from a pow'r so vain,
Or union with that splendid train?"


"Alas, great Malcolm cried,...Read more of this...
by Trumbull, John


The Rule of the A.J.C

...at's a rule of the A.J.C. 

And all ye bold "Books" who are keeping a shop, 
In the rules of the A.J.C., 
There's a new regulation that says you must stop! 
That's a rule of the A.J.C. 
You must give up your shop with its pipes and cigars 
To an unlicensed man who is thanking his stars, 
While you go and bet in the threepenny bars -- 
That's a rule of the A.J.C. 

And all ye small jockeys who ride in a race, 
In the rules of the A.J.C. 
If owners' instructions are "Don't get ...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

What He Thought

...ist, the arrogant, the amorous,
the brazen and the glib. And there was one
administrator (The Conservative), in suit
of regulation gray, who like a good tour guide
with measured pace and uninflected tone
narrated sights and histories
the hired van hauled us past.
Of all he was most politic--
and least poetic-- so
it seemed. Our last
few days in Rome
I found a book of poems this
unprepossessing one had written: it was there
in the pensione room (a room he'd recommended)
where ...Read more of this...
by McHugh, Heather

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