Famous Savory Poems by Famous Poets

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A Ramble in St. Jamess Park

...coach she passes.

So a proud ***** does lead about
Of humble curs the amorous rout,
Who most obsequiously do hunt
The savory scent of salt-swoln ****.
Some power more patient now relate
The sense of this surprising fate.
Gods! that a thing admired by me
Should fall to so much infamy.
Had she picked out, to rub her **** on,
Some stiff-pricked clown or well-hung parson,
Each job of whose spermatic sluice
Had filled her **** with wholesome juice,
I the proceeding should have p...Read more of this...
by Wilmot, John


As Watchers hang upon the East

...As Watchers hang upon the East,
As Beggars revel at a feast
By savory Fancy spread --
As brooks in deserts babble sweet
On ear too far for the delight,
Heaven beguiles the tired.

As that same watcher, when the East
Opens the lid of Amethyst
And lets the morning go --
That Beggar, when an honored Guest,
Those thirsty lips to flagons pressed,
Heaven to us, if true....Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

Bacon

...n
    Over campfires of sagebrush and oak;
  The breezes that blow from the Platte to the main
    Have carried your savory smoke.
  You're friendly to miner or puncher or priest;
    You're as good in December as May;
  You always came in when the fresh meat had ceased
  And the rough course of empire to westward was greased
    By the bacon we fried on the way.

  We've said that you weren't fit for white men to eat
    And your virtues we often forget.
  We've ...Read more of this...
by Clark, Badger

Custer

...feast, 
The men surround the carcass of the beast.
Rolled on his back, he lies with lolling tongue, 
Soon to the saddle savory steaks are hung.
And from his mighty head, great tufts of hair
Are cut as trophies for some lady fair.
To vultures then they leave the torn remains
Of what an hour ago was monarch of the plains.



LV.
Far off, two bulls in jealous war engage, 
Their blood-shot eye balls roll in furious rage; 
With maddened hoofs they mutilate the ground
And loud thei...Read more of this...
by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Endymion: Book IV

...se and daffodil,
Be careful, ere ye enter in, to fill
 Your baskets high
With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines,
Savory, latter-mint, and columbines,
Cool parsley, basil sweet, and sunny thyme;
Yea, every flower and leaf of every clime,
All gather'd in the dewy morning: hie
 Away! fly, fly!--
Crystalline brother of the belt of heaven,
Aquarius! to whom king Jove has given
Two liquid pulse streams 'stead of feather'd wings,
Two fan-like fountains,--thine illuminings
 Fo...Read more of this...
by Keats, John


Horace to phyllis

...ile
As though it pined for honors gory.

Hither our neighbors nimbly fare,--
The boys agog, the maidens snickering;
And savory smells possess the air
As skyward kitchen flames are flickering.

You ask what means this grand display,
This festive throng, and goodly diet?
Well, since you're bound to have your way,
I don't mind telling, on the quiet.

'Tis April 13, as you know,--
A day and month devote to Venus,
Whereon was born, some years ago,
My very worthy friend Maecenas.

...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene

May

...tells the morning gone
They leave their toils for dinners hour
Beneath some hedges bramble bower
And season sweet their savory meals
Wi joke and tale and merry peals
Of ancient tunes from happy tongues
While linnets join their fitful songs
Perchd oer their heads in frolic play
Among the tufts of motling may
The young girls whisper things of love
And from the old dames hearing move
Oft making 'love knotts' in the shade
Of blue green oat or wheaten blade
And trying simple charm...Read more of this...
by Clare, John

Sonnet CII

...der thinketh meWhen every torment and adversiteThat cometh of him may to me savory thinke:For aye more thurst I the more that I drinke.And if that at my owne lust I brenne,From whence cometh my wailing and my pleinte?If harme agre me whereto pleine I thenne?[Pg 131]...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

The Carrier Pigeon

...beneath the mountain's weight; 
 Who for a swallow's nest leaves one old castle wall, 
 Who lets for famished beetles savory apples fall, 
 Who bids a pigmy win where Titans fail, in yoke, 
 And, in what we deem fruitless roar and smoke, 
 Makes Etna, Chimborazo, still His praises sing, 
 And saves a city by a word lapped 'neath a pigeon's wing! 


 




...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

The Man From Eldorado

...eye is bright and genial, his tongue no longer lags;
`His heart is brimming o'er with joy and mirth;
He may be far from savory, he may be clad in rags,
`But to-night he feels as if he owns the earth.

Says he: "Boys, here is where the shaggy North and I will shake;
 I thought I'd never manage to get free.
I kept on making misses; but at last I've got my stake;
 There's no more thawing frozen muck for me.
I am going to God's Country, where I'll live the simple life;
 I'll buy ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

Troilus And Criseyde: Book 01

...es comth my wo?
If it be wikke, a wonder thinketh me,
Whenne every torment and adversitee
That cometh of him, may to me savory thinke; 
For ay thurst I, the more that I it drinke.

'And if that at myn owene lust I brenne,
Fro whennes cometh my wailing and my pleynte?
If harme agree me, wher-to pleyne I thenne?
I noot, ne why unwery that I feynte. 
O quike deeth, O swete harm so queynte,
How may of thee in me swich quantitee,
But-if that I consente that it be?

'And if that I ...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

Undue Significance a starving man attaches

...ood --

Partaken -- it relieves -- indeed --
But proves us
That Spices fly
In the Receipt -- It was the Distance --
Was Savory --...Read more of this...
by Dickinson, Emily

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