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Famous Talkin Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...in!
But whether ’twas the deil himsel,
 Or whether ’twas a bauk-en’,
Or whether it was Andrew Bell,
 She did na wait on talkin
 To spier that night.


Wee Jenny to her graunie says,
 “Will ye go wi’ me, graunie?
I’ll eat the apple at the glass, 10
 I gat frae uncle Johnie:”
She fuff’t her pipe wi’ sic a lunt,
 In wrath she was sae vap’rin,
She notic’t na an aizle brunt
 Her braw, new, worset apron
 Out thro’ that night.


“Ye little skelpie-limmer’s face!
 I daur you ...Read more of this...



by Laurence Dunbar, Paul
...mp to raise a song,
An' de case have set me t'inkin',
Dat dey 's folk des lak de rain,
Dat goes drizzlin' w'en dey's talkin',
An' won't speak out flat an' plain.
Ain't you nevah set an' listened
[Pg 181]At a body 'splain his min'?
W'en de t'oughts dey keep on drappin'
Was n't big enough to fin'?
Dem 's whut I call drizzlin' people,
Othahs call 'em mealy mouf,
But de fust name hits me bettah,
Case dey nevah tech a...Read more of this...

by Lanier, Sidney
...the wind hit was sorter breezy)
And I got down off'n my load,
And I crep' up close to Ellick's back,
And I heerd him a-talkin' softly, thus:
"Them figgers is got me under the hack.
I caint see how to git out'n the muss,
Except to jest nat'ally fail and bus'!
My crap-leen calls for nine hundred and more.
My counts o' sales is eight hundred and four,
Of cotton for Ellick Garry.
Thar's eight, ought, four, jest like on a slate:
Here's nine and two oughts -- Hauh? nin...Read more of this...

by Lanier, Sidney
...the wind hit was sorter breezy)
And I got down off'n my load,
And I crep' up close to Ellick's back,
And I heerd him a-talkin' softly, thus:
"Them figgers is got me under the hack.
I caint see how to git out'n the muss,
Except to jest nat'ally fail and bus'!
My crap-leen calls for nine hundred and more.
My counts o' sales is eight hundred and four,
Of cotton for Ellick Garry.
Thar's eight, ought, four, jest like on a slate:
Here's nine and two oughts -- Hauh? nin...Read more of this...

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