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Famous Roomy Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...the chimla lug,
I grudge a wee the great-folk’s gift,
 That live sae bien an’ snug:
 I tent less, and want less
 Their roomy fire-side;
 But hanker, and canker,
 To see their cursed pride.


It’s hardly in a body’s pow’r
To keep, at times, frae being sour,
 To see how things are shar’d;
How best o’ chiels are whiles in want,
While coofs on countless thousands rant,
 And ken na how to wair’t;
But, Davie, lad, ne’er fash your head,
 Tho’ we hae little gear;
We’re fit to wi...Read more of this...



by Jackson, Helen Hunt
...O month whose promise and fulfilment blend, 
And burst in one! it seems the earth can store 
In all her roomy house no treasure more; 
Of all her wealth no farthing have to spend 
On fruit, when once this stintless flowering end. 
And yet no tiniest flower shall fall before 
It hath made ready at its hidden core 
Its tithe of seed, which we may count and tend 
Till harvest. Joy of blossomed love, for thee 
Seems it no fairer thing can yet have birth? 
...Read more of this...

by Clare, John
...d they fly,
And like to princes in their slumbers lie,
Secure from rain, and dropping dews, and all,
In silken beds and roomy painted hall.
So merrily they spend their summer-day,
Now in the corn-fields, now in the new-mown hay.
One almost fancies that such happy things,
With coloured hoods and richly burnished wings,
Are fairy folk, in splendid masquerade
Disguised, as if of mortal folk afraid,
Keeping their joyous pranks a mystery still,
Lest glaring day should do t...Read more of this...

by Lawson, Henry
...in a sad and sinful plight, 
And his hat was in his left hand, and a bottle in his right. 

His brow was broad and roomy, but its lines were somewhat harsh, 
And a sensual mouth was hidden by a drooping, fair moustache; 
(His hairy chest was open to what poets call the `wined', 
And I would have bet a thousand that his pants were gone behind). 

He agreed: `Yer can't remember all the chaps yer chance to meet,' 
And he said his name was Sweeney -- people lived in Suss...Read more of this...

by Hardy, Thomas
...interblent us.

"Cherish him can I while the true one forthcome--
Come the rich fulfiller of my prevision;
Life is roomy yet, and the odds unbounded."
So self-communed I.

Thwart my wistful way did a damsel saunter,
Fair not fairest, good not best of her feather;
"Maiden meet," held I, "till arise my forefelt
Wonder of women."

Long a visioned hermitage deep desiring,
Tenements uncouth I was fain to house in;
"Let such lodging be for a breath-while," thought ...Read more of this...



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