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Famous Swatch Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ppointed
By the Right Worshipful anointed,
 To hold our grand procession;
To get a blad o’ Johnie’s morals,
And taste a swatch o’ Manson’s barrels
 I’ the way of our profession.
The Master and the Brotherhood
 Would a’ be glad to see you;
For me I would be mair than proud
 To share the mercies wi’ you.
 If Death, then, wi’ skaith, then,
 Some mortal heart is hechtin,
 Inform him, and storm him,
 That Saturday you’ll fecht him.ROBERT BURNS.Mossgiel, An. M. 5790....Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...ersel’, to hide the shame,
 In Hornbook’s care;
Horn sent her aff to her lang hame,
 To hide it there.


“That’s just a swatch o’ Hornbook’s way;
Thus goes he on from day to day,
Thus does he poison, kill, an’ slay,
 An’s weel paid for’t;
Yet stops me o’ my lawfu’ prey,
 Wi’ his d—n’d dirt:


“But, hark! I’ll tell you of a plot,
Tho’ dinna ye be speakin o’t;
I’ll nail the self-conceited sot,
 As dead’s a herrin;
Neist time we meet, I’ll wad a groat,
 He gets his fairin!”


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by Burns, Robert
...
 An’ some upo’ their claes;
Ane curses feet that fyl’d his shins,
 Anither sighs an’ prays:
On this hand sits a chosen swatch,
 Wi’ screwed-up, grace-proud faces;
On that a set o’ chaps, at watch,
 Thrang winkin on the lasses
 To chairs that day.


O happy is that man, an’ blest!
 Nae wonder that it pride him!
Whase ain dear lass, that he likes best,
 Comes clinkin down beside him!
Wi’ arms repos’d on the chair back,
 He sweetly does compose him;
Which, by degrees, slips rou...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert
...u'd call
Companionable. But everything is getting choked to the point of
Silence. Just now a magnetic storm hung in the swatch of sky
Over the Fudds' garage, reducing it--drastically--
To the aura of a plumbago-blue log cabin on
A Gadsden Purchase commemorative cover. Suddenly all is
Loathing. I don't want to go back inside any more. You meet
Enough vague people on this emerald traffic-island--no,
Not people, comings and goings, more: mutterings, splatterings,
The bizarrely b...Read more of this...
by Ashbery, John

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