Famous Toasting Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Growltigers Last Stand

...emy there was not heard a sound.
The lovers sang their last duet, in danger of their lives--
For the foe was armed with toasting forks and cruel carving knives.
Then GILBERT gave the signal to his fierce Mongolian horde;
With a frightful burst of fireworks the Chinks they swarmed aboard.
Abandoning their sampans, and their pullaways and junks,
They battened down the hatches on the crew within their bunks.

Then Griddlebone she gave a screech, for she was badly skeered;
I am s...Read more of this...
by Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)


My Baynit

...

Left, right, Hans and Fritz!
Goose step, keep up yer mits!
Oh my, Ain't it a shyme!
Part of me outfit every time.

At toasting a biscuit me bay'nit's a dandy;
 I've used it to open a bully beef can;
For pokin' the fire it comes in werry 'andy;
 For any old thing but for stickin' a man.
'Ow often I've said: "'Ere, I'm goin' to press you
 Into a 'Un till you're seasoned for prime,"
And fiercely I rushes to do it, but bless you!
 Part of me outfit every time.

Lor, yus; DON'T ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

On The Disadvantages Of Central Heating

...t soaks in the bathtub, of nothing
quite drying out till next summer:
 delicious to think of

hassocks pulled in close, toasting-
forks held to coal-glow, strong-minded
small boys and big eager sheepdogs
muscling in on bookish profundities
 now quite forgotten

the farmhouse long sold, old friends
dead or lost track of, what's salvaged
is this vivid diminuendo, unfogged
by mere affect, the perishing residue
 of pure sensation...Read more of this...
by Clampitt, Amy

Roast Leviathan

...s, cackling and boasting,
The angels' old wives and their nervous assistants
Run in to serve us....
And while we are toasting 

The Fairest of All, they call from the distance
The rare ones of Time, they share our enjoyment;
Their only employment to bear jars of wine
And shine like the stars in a circle of glory.
Here sways Rebekah accompanied by Zilpah;
Miriam plays to the singing of Bilhah;
Hagar has tales for us, Judith her story;
Esther exhales bright romances...Read more of this...
by Untermeyer, Louis

The Everlasting Mercy

...carols, 
And O, the milk from little barrels. 
They light a fire fit for roasting 
(And how good mouse-meat smells when toasting), 
Then down they sit to merry feast 
While moon goes west and sun comes east.

Sometimes they make so merry there 
Old lawyer comes to head of stair 
To 'fend with fist and poker took firm 
His parchments channeled by the bookworm, 
And all his deeds, and all his packs 
Of withered ink and sealing wax; 
And there he stands, with candle raised, 
And...Read more of this...
by Masefield, John


The Tower

...jostled at the fair
So great a glory did the song confer.

And certain men, being maddened by those rhymes,
Or else by toasting her a score of times,
Rose from the table and declared it right
To test their fancy by their sight;
But they mistook the brightness of the moon
For the prosaic light of day -
Music had driven their wits astray -
And one was drowned in the great bog of Cloone.

Strange, but the man who made the song was blind;
Yet, now I have considered it, I find
Th...Read more of this...
by Yeats, William Butler

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