Famous Skulk Poems by Famous Poets

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519. Ballad on Mr. Heron's Election—No. 2

...gallows for siller,
 An ’twere na the cost o’ the rape.


But where is the Doggerbank hero,
 That made “Hogan Mogan” to skulk?
Poor Keith’s gane to hell to be fuel,
 The auld rotten wreck of a Hulk.
And where is our King’s Lord Lieutenant,
 Sae fam’d for his gratefu’ return?
The birkie is gettin’ his Questions
 To say in Saint Stephen’s the morn.


But mark ye! there’s trusty Kerroughtree,
 Whose honor was ever his law;
If the Virtues were pack’d in a parcel,
 His worth might...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


Now List to my Morning's Romanza

...d what cannot be answer’d, he shows how
 it
 cannot
 be answer’d. 

3
A man is a summons and challenge; 
(It is vain to skulk—Do you hear that mocking and laughter? Do you hear the ironical
 echoes?) 

Books, friendships, philosophers, priests, action, pleasure, pride, beat up and down,
 seeking
 to
 give satisfaction;
He indicates the satisfaction, and indicates them that beat up and down also. 

Whichever the sex, whatever the season or place, he may go freshly and gently a...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Song of Myself

...ht of the moon and stars? 
List to the story as my grandmother’s father, the sailor, told it to me. 

Our foe was no skulk in his ship, I tell you, (said he;) 
His was the surly English pluck—and there is no tougher or truer, and never
 was, and never will be;
Along the lower’d eve he came, horribly raking us. 

We closed with him—the yards entangled—the cannon touch’d; 
My captain lash’d fast with his own hands. 

We had receiv’d some eighteen pound shots under th...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Spontaneous Me

...g or ripen’d long-round walnuts; 
The continence of vegetables, birds, animals, 
The consequent meanness of me should I skulk or find myself indecent, while birds and
 animals never once skulk or find themselves indecent; 
The great chastity of paternity, to match the great chastity of maternity,
The oath of procreation I have sworn—my Adamic and fresh daughters, 
The greed that eats me day and night with hungry gnaw, till I saturate what shall produce
 boys to fill my place ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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