Famous Stools Poems by Famous Poets

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

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138. Address to the Toothache

...ing moan;
But thee—thou hell o’ a’ diseases—
 They mock our groan.


Adown my beard the slavers trickle
I throw the wee stools o’er the mickle,
While round the fire the giglets keckle,
 To see me loup,
While, raving mad, I wish a heckle
 Were in their doup!


In a’ the numerous human dools,
Ill hairsts, daft bargains, cutty stools,
Or worthy frien’s rak’d i’ the mools,—
 Sad sight to see!
The tricks o’ knaves, or fash o’fools,
 Thou bear’st the gree!


Where’er that place be ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


171. Burlesque Lament fo Wm. Creech's Absence

...llie’s awa!


Now gawkies, tawpies, gowks and fools,
Frae colleges and boarding schools,
May sprout like simmer puddock-stools
 In glen or shaw;
He wha could brush them down to mools—
 Willie’s awa!


The brethren o’ the Commerce-chaumer
May mourn their loss wi’ doolfu’ clamour;
He was a dictionar and grammar
 Among them a’;
I fear they’ll now mak mony a stammer;
 Willie’s awa!


Nae mair we see his levee door
Philosophers and poets pour,
And toothy critics by the score,
 In ...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

60. Epistle on J. Lapraik

...ur leaves, my learned foes,
 Ye’re maybe wrang.


What’s a’ your jargon o’ your schools—
Your Latin names for horns an’ stools?
If honest Nature made you fools,
 What sairs your grammars?
Ye’d better taen up spades and shools,
 Or knappin-hammers.


A set o’ dull, conceited hashes
Confuse their brains in college classes!
They gang in stirks, and come out asses,
 Plain truth to speak;
An’ syne they think to climb Parnassus
 By dint o’ Greek!


Gie me ae spark o’ nature’s fire,...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

68. The Holy Fair

...draw our tippence.
Then in we go to see the show:
 On ev’ry side they’re gath’rin;
Some carrying dails, some chairs an’ stools,
 An’ some are busy bleth’rin
 Right loud that day.


Here stands a shed to fend the show’rs,
 An’ screen our countra gentry;
There “Racer Jess, 2 an’ twa-three whores,
 Are blinkin at the entry.
Here sits a raw o’ tittlin jads,
 Wi’ heaving breast an’ bare neck;
An’ there a batch o’ wabster lads,
 Blackguarding frae Kilmarnock,
 For fun this day.


H...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert

Blind Mans Buff

...th so red, and walls so fair;
`Heap the sea-coal, come, heap it higher,
The oaken log lay on the fire.'
The well-wash'd stools, a circling row,
With lad and lass, how fair the show!
The merry can of nut-brown ale,
The laughing jest, the love-sick tale,
Till, tir'd of chat, the game begins.
The lasses prick the lads with pins;
Roger from Dolly twitch'd the stool,
She, falling, kiss'd the ground, poor fool!
She blush'd so red, with sidelong glance
At hob-nail Dick, who griev'd ...Read more of this...
by Blake, William


Diary of a Church Mouse

...Here among long-discarded cassocks,
Damp stools, and half-split open hassocks,
Here where the vicar never looks
I nibble through old service books.
Lean and alone I spend my days
Behind this Church of England baize.
I share my dark forgotten room
With two oil-lamps and half a broom.
The cleaner never bothers me,
So here I eat my frugal tea.
My bread is sawdust mixed with straw;
My jam is polish for...Read more of this...
by Betjeman, John

Eviradnus

...
 A constable supreme of high degree." 
 All three were joyous, and were fair to see. 
 Joss ate—and Zeno drank; on stools the pair, 
 With Mahaud musing in the regal chair. 
 The sound of separate leaf we do not note— 
 And so their babble seemed to idly float, 
 And leave no thought behind. Now and again 
 Joss his guitar made trill with plaintive strain 
 Or Tyrolean air; and lively tales they told 
 Mingled with mirth all free, and frank, and bold. 
 Said Maha...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

Lilacs

...You called to them: “Goose-quill men, goose-quill men,
May is a month for flitting.”
Until they writhed on their high stools
And wrote poetry on their letter-sheets behind the propped-up ledgers.
Paradoxical New England clerks,
Writing inventories in ledgers, reading the “Song of Solomon” at night,
So many verses before bed-time,
Because it was the Bible.
The dead fed you
Amid the slant stones of graveyards.
Pale ghosts who planted you
Came in the nighttime
And le...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

Singer in the Prison The

...a nation’s criminal mass,
Calmly a Lady walk’d, holding a little innocent child by either hand, 
Whom, seating on their stools beside her on the platform, 
She, first preluding with the instrument, a low and musical prelude, 
In voice surpassing all, sang forth a quaint old hymn. 
3THE HYMN.A Soul, confined by bars and bands,
Cries, Help! O help! and wrings her hands; 
Blinded her eyes—bleeding her breast, 
Nor pardon finds, nor balm of rest. 
 O sight of shame, and pain, and...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Break

...al. The days are a drag.
All of the skeleton in me is in trouble.

Across the hall is the bedpan station.
The urine and stools pass hourly by my head
in silver bowls. They flush in unison
in the autoclave. My one dozen roses are dead.

The have ceased to menstruate. They hang
there like little dried up blood clots.
And the heart too, that cripple, how it sang
once. How it thought it could call the shots!

Understand what happened the day I fell.
My heart had stammered and hun...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

The Burghers of Calais

...

Said he, " I'll beleaguer this city,
I'll teach them to flout their new King - 
Then he told all his lads to get camp-stools
And sit round the place in a ring.

Now the burghers knew nowt about Crecy- 
They laughed when they saw Edward's plan- 
And thinking their side were still winning,
They shrugged and said- " San fairy Ann."

But they found at the end of a fortnight 
That things wasn't looking so nice,
With nowt going out but the pigeons, 
And nowt coming in but the mic...Read more of this...
by Edgar, Marriott

The Trail Of Ninety-Eight

...Gold! We leapt from our benches. Gold! We sprang from our stools.
Gold! We wheeled in the furrow, fired with the faith of fools.
Fearless, unfound, unfitted, far from the night and the cold,
Heard we the clarion summons, followed the master-lure--Gold!

Men from the sands of the Sunland; men from the woods of the West;
Men from the farms and the cities, into the Northland we pressed.
Graybeards and striplings and w...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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