Famous Rollicking Poems by Famous Poets

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

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La Paloma in London

...e went before the light; 
We went, unresting six, craving new fun, 
New scenes, new raptures, for the fevered night 
Of rollicking laughter, drink and song, was done. 
The vault was void, but for the dawn's great star 
That shed upon our path its silver flame, 
When La Paloma on a low guitar 
Abruptly from a darkened casement came-- 
Harlem! All else shut out, I saw the hall, 
And you in your red shoulder sash come dancing 
With Val against me languid by the wall, 
Your burni...Read more of this...
by McKay, Claude


Portrait

...illing all the wine I'm able,
 Pip a-lit;
Not a stiff and stuffy croaker
In a frock coat and a choker
 Let me be;
But a rollicking old fellow
With a visage ripe and mellow
 As you see.

Just a twinkle-eyed old codger,
And of death as artful dodger,
 Such I am;
I defy the Doc's advising
And I don't for sermonising
 Care a damn.
Though Bill Shakespeare had in his dome
Both - I'd rather wit than wisdom
 For my choice;
In the glug glug of the bottle,
As I tip it down my throttle,...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Rain on the Hill

...rse of raindrops, or the dear sound 
Close to the ground, 
That grasses make when they grow, 
Comes the wind in a gay, 
Rollicking, turbulent way, 
To winnow each bough and toss each spray, 
Piping and whistling in glee 
With the vibrant notes of a merry minstrelsy. 

The friendly rain 
Sings many a haunting strain, 
Now of gladness and now of dole, 
Anon of the glamor and the dream 
That ever seem 
To wait on a pilgrim soul; 
Yea, we can hear 
The grief of an elder year, 
An...Read more of this...
by Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Rollicking Hans

...HALLO there! A glass!

Ha! the draught's truly sweet!
If for drink go my shoes,

I shall still have my feet.

A maiden and wine,

With sweet music and song,--
I would they were mine,

All life's journey along!

If I depart from this sad sphere,
And leave a will behind me here,
A suit at law will be preferr'd,
But as for thanks,--the deuce a word!
So ere I ...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

The Change

...p,
And then I decided to follow
His wandering journey to field and camp,
Up hill, down dale or hollow.
I dogged the rollicking, gay, young blade
In every species of weather;
Till, leading me straight to the home of a maid
He left us there together.
And then I saw it, oh, sweet surprise,
The taper it set a-burning
The love-light brimming my lady's eyes,
And my heart with the fire of yearning.
...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul


The Foolish Fir-Tree

...A tale that the poet Rückert told
To German children, in days of old;
Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme
Like a merry mummer of ancient time,
And sent, in its English dress, to please
The little folk of the Christmas trees. 

A little fir grew in the midst of the wood 
Contented and happy, as young trees should. 
His body was straight and his boughs were clean; 
And summer and winter the bountiful sheen 
Of his needles bedecked him, from top to...Read more of this...
by Dyke, Henry Van

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