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Famous Socked Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Kipling, Rudyard
...a fortnight's C.B.
 For "drunk and resisting the Guard!"
 Mad drunk and resisting the Guard --
 'Strewth, but I socked it them hard!
 So it's pack-drill for me and a fortnight's C.B.
 For "drunk and resisting the Guard."

I started o' canteen porter, I finished o' canteen beer,
But a dose o' gin that a mate slipped in, it was that that brought me here.
'Twas that and an extry double Guard that rubbed my nose in the dirt;
But I fell away with the Corp'r...Read more of this...



by Sexton, Anne
...our balls.
I'm on a diet from death.

Yes, I admit
it has gotten to be a bit of a habit-
blows eight at a time, socked in the eye,
hauled away by the pink, the orange,
the green and the white goodnights.
I'm becoming something of a chemical
mixture.
that's it!
My supply
of tablets
has got to last for years and years.
I like them more than I like me.
It's a kind of marriage.
It's a kind of war where I plant bombs inside
of myself.
Yes
I try
to k...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...only socks you're after, I will do the best I can.
I have handed you a pair, And I've plenty more to spare," So he socked her on the nose;
And a woeful maid was she, As beneath the Yum-yum tree, This - lamentation 'rose: 

Now the wedding tom-tom's over, for this Boola-boola maid;
And when ev'ning shadows hover, She no longer is afraid.
For she weasrs a palm-leaf pinny And she rocks a pickaninny In the shade of the Yum-yum tree,
And she's happy with her he-man, Thoug...Read more of this...

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