Famous Sheepish Poems by Famous Poets

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Bills Grave

...says: "Wot 'o, there, Chummy! Wot price the little bookay?"
And 'e starts like a bloke wot's guilty, and 'e says with a sheepish smile:
 "She's a bit of orl right, the widder wot keeps the estaminay."

So 'e goes away in a 'urry, and I wishes 'im best o' luck,
 And I picks up me bunch o' wild-flowers, and the light's gettin' sorto dim,
When I makes me way to the boneyard, and . . . I stares like a man wot's stuck,
 For wot do I see? Bill's grave-mound strewn with the flowers ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William


Memories of West Street and Lepke

...esser, two toy American
flags tied together with a ribbon of Easter palm.
Flabby, bald, lobotomized,
he drifted in a sheepish calm,
where no agonizing reappraisal
jarred his concentration on the electric chair
hanging like an oasis in his air
of lost connections. . . ....Read more of this...
by Lowell, Robert

Part 3 of Trout Fishing in America

...es carefully.

 I laid the girl.

 It was like the eternal 59th second when it becomes a minute

and then looks kind of sheepish.

 "Good, " the girl said, and kissed me on the face.

 The man sat there without speaking or moving or sending

out any emotion into the room. I guess he was rich and owned

3, 859 Rolls Royces.

 Afterwards the girl got dressed and she and the man left.

They walked down the stairs and on their way out, I heard

him say his first words.

 "Would y...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

Part 7 of Trout Fishing in America

...orris shouted. "Come back here.

You forgot something. "

 "What do you mean?" one of them said. They both looked

very sheepish, caught in the teeth of the flashlight.

 "You know what I mean," Mr. Norris said. "Right now!"

 The body bringers shrugged their shoulders, looked at

each other and then reluctantly went back, dragging their

feet like children all the way. They picked up the body. It

was heavy and one of them had trouble getting hold of the feet.

 That one sai...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year

...October. Here in this dank, unfamiliar kitchen 
I study my father's embarrassed young man's face. 
Sheepish grin, he holds in one hand a string 
of spiny yellow perch, in the other 
a bottle of Carlsbad Beer. 

In jeans and denim shirt, he leans 
against the front fender of a 1934 Ford. 
He would like to pose bluff and hearty for his posterity, 
Wear his old hat cocked over his ear. 
All his life my father wanted to be bold. 

But the eyes give him away, ...Read more of this...
by Carver, Raymond


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