Famous Stayer Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Stayer poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous stayer poems. These examples illustrate what a famous stayer poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Paterson, Andrew Barton
...turn to the straight
Where the favourites fail,
And every last atom of weight
Is telling its tale;
As some grim old stayer hard-pressed
Runs true to his breed,
And with head in front of the rest
Fights on in the lead;
When the jockeys are out with the whips,
With a furlong to go,
And the backers grow white in the lips --
Do you think they don't know?
Do they know? As they come back to weigh
In a whirlwind of cheers,
Though the spurs have left marks of the fray, ...Read more of this...
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