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Famous Sauls Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...onest Master Heron
Had, at the time, some dainty fair one
To ware this theologic care on,
 And holy study;
And tired o’ sauls to waste his lear on,
 E’en tried the body.


But what d’ye think, my trusty fere,
I’m turned a gauger—Peace be here!
Parnassian queans, I fear, I fear,
 Ye’ll now disdain me!
And then my fifty pounds a year
 Will little gain me.


Ye glaikit, gleesome, dainty damies,
Wha, by Castalia’s wimplin streamies,
Lowp, sing, and lave your pretty limbies,
 Ye k...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...is piercin words, like Highlan’ swords,
 Divide the joints an’ marrow;
His talk o’ Hell, whare devils dwell,
 Our vera “sauls does harrow”
 Wi’ fright that day!


A vast, unbottom’d, boundless pit,
 Fill’d fou o’ lowin brunstane,
Whase raging flame, an’ scorching heat,
 Wad melt the hardest whun-stane!
The half-asleep start up wi’ fear,
 An’ think they hear it roarin;
When presently it does appear,
 ’Twas but some neibor snorin
 Asleep that day.


’Twad be owre lang a tale to...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

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