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Famous Rube Poems by Famous Poets

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

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..., too fat or short or long or lean, 
Step from the pages of the magazine 
With slapstick or sombrero or with cane: 
The rube, the cowboy or the masher vain. 
They over-act each part. But at the height 
Of banter and of canter and delight 
The masks fall off for one ***** instant there 
And show real faces: faces full of care 
And desperate longing: love that's hot or cold; 
And subtle thoughts, and countenances bold. 
The masks go back. 'Tis one more joke. Laugh on! 
The good...Read more of this...
by Lindsay, Vachel



...s north of Fifty-Three.
So go in grace with Him to face, and an ill-spent life behind,
And I'll be good to your widows, Rube, as many as I shall find."

A Stralsund man shot blind and large, and a war-lock Finn was he,
And he hit Tom Hall with a bursting ball a hand's-breadth over the knee.
Tom Hall caught hold by the topping-lift, and sat him down with an oath,
"You'll wait a little, Rube," he said, "the Devil has called for both.
The Devil is driving both this tide, and the...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

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