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Famous Shooters Poems by Famous Poets

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by Herbert, George
...n with blood 
To wash away my stubborn thought: 
For I will do, or suffer what I ought. 

But I have also stars and shooters too, 
Born where thy servants both artilleries use. 
My tears and prayers night and day do woo, 
And work up to thee; yet thou dost refuse. 
Not but that I am (I must say still) 
Much more oblig'd to do thy will, 
Than thou to grant mine: but because 
Thy promise now hath ev'n set thee thy laws. 

Then we are shooters both, and thou dost...Read more of this...



by Betjeman, John
...nt of mayfields
Most enticingly was blown
Over market gardens tidy,
Taverns for the bona fide,
Cockney singers, cockney shooters,
Murray Poshes, Lupin Pooters,
Long in Kelsal Green and Highgate silent under soot and stone....Read more of this...

by Lindsay, Vachel
...
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you,
Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you."


II. THEIR IRREPRESSIBLE HIGH SPIRITS

Wild crap-shooters with a whoop and a call
Rather shrill and high.
Danced the juba in their gambling-hall
And laughed fit to kill, and shook the town,
And guyed the policemen and laughed them down
With a boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM.
THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK,
Read exactly as in first section.
CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOL...Read more of this...

by Gordon, Adam Lindsay
...ughout, Ned, on the chestnut and the grey, 
And the troopers were three hundred yards behind, 
While we emptied our six-shooters on the bushrangers at bay, 
In the creek with stunted box-trees for a blind! 
There you grappled with the leader, man to man, and horse to horse, 
And you roll'd together when the chestnut rear'd; 
He blazed away and missed you in that shallow water-course -- 
A narrow shave -- his powder singed your beard! 

In these hours when life is ebbing, how ...Read more of this...

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