Famous Revelers Poems by Famous Poets

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Beowulf (Modern English)

...had often done before.
They cleared away the benches, and spread it out
with bedding and bolsters. One of those beery revelers
laid down to his floor-rest, his fated end hurrying. (ll. 1232-41)

Battle-shields were set at their heads, bright wooden boards.
There on the benches, over each noble warrior,
it was easily seen, the battle-steep helmet, the ringed byrnie,
the dangerous spear-shaft. This was their custom:
to be always ready to give battle, either at home
or...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,


The Stranger

...The restaurants on hot spring evenings
Lie under a dense and savage air.
Foul drafts and hoots from dunken revelers
Contaminate the thoroughfare. 
Above the dusty lanes of suburbia
Above the tedium of bungalows
A pretzel sign begilds a bakery
And children screech fortissimo. 

And every evening beyond the barriers
Gentlemen of practiced wit and charm
Go strolling beside the drainage ditches -- 
A tilted derby and a lady at the arm. 

The squeak of oarlocks comes ...Read more of this...
by Blok, Aleksandr

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