Famous Treating Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Dogs Mistake

...with what he got, 
So we fed him bones and biscuits, till he heartened up a lot; 
Then he growled and grew aggressive, treating orders with disdain, 
Till at last he bit the butcher, which would argue want of brain. 

Now the butcher, noble fellow, was a sport beyond belief, 
And instead of bringing actions he brought half a shin of beef, 
Which he handed on to Fido, who received it as a right 
And removed it to the garden, where he buried it at night. 

'Twas the means of h...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton


A Man

...is mother! Two or three
times a week. And she'd sit there looking at me, pretending to like me but all the time
she was treating me like I was a whore. Like I was a big bad whore stealing her son away
from her! Her precious Wallace! Christ! What a mess!" "He claimed he loved me.
And I'd say, 'Look at my pussy, Walter!' And he wouldn't look at my pussy. He said, 'I
don't want to look at that thing.' That thing! That's what he called it! You're not afraid
of my pussy, are you, ...Read more of this...
by Bukowski, Charles

Koening Of The River

...onaries met their ends - 
swinging in the wind, like a dead clapper when
a bell is broken, if that sky was a bell -
for treating savages as if they were men,
and frightening them with talk of Heaven and Hell.
But I have forgotten our journey's origins,
mused Koenig, and our purpose. He knew it was noble,
based on some phrase, forgotten, from the Bible,
but he felt bodiless, like a man stumbling from
the pages of a novel, not a forest,
written a hundred years ago. He stroked h...Read more of this...
by Walcott, Derek

Part 9 of Trout Fishing in America

...that two-hour yak-yak acti-

 vity we call breakfast. We sit around and bring ourselves

 slowly back to consciousness, treating ourselves like fine

 pieces of china, and after we finish the last cup of the last

 cup of the last cup of coffee, it's time to think about lunch or

 go to the Goodwill in Fairfax.

 So here we are, living in the California bush above Mill

 Valley. We could look right down on the main street of Mill

 Valley if it were not for the eucalyptus tre...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard

t of the Fifth Scene in the Second Act of Athalia

...I mean (recalling Times of Blood) 
To make you Judges of the Paths I trod, 
When to the empty'd Throne I boldly rose, 
Treating all Intercepters as my Foes. 
'Twas Heav'ns Decree, that I should thus succeed, 
Whose following Favour justifies the Deed, 
Extending my unlimited Command 
From Sea to Sea o'er the obedient Land: 
Whilst your Jerusalem all Peace enjoys, 
Nor now the' encroaching Philistine destroys, 
Nor wandring Arab his Pavilion spreads, 
Near Jordan's Banks, nor...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill


The Sale of Saint Thomas

...rough their cuirasses 
And prick the metal fishes when they bask. 
You'll feel them soon, with beaks like sturdy pins, 
Treating their stinging thirsts with your best blood. 
A man can't walk a mile in India 
Without being the business of a throng'd 
And moving town of flies; they hawk at a man 
As bold as little eagles, and as wild. 
And, I suppose, only a fool will blame them. 
Flies have the right to sink wells in our skin 
All as men to bore parcht earth for water. 
But I...Read more of this...
by Abercrombie, Lascelles

The Siege of Corinth

...or seeing it was impossible to hold out against so mighty a force, thought it fit to beat a parley; but while they were treating about the articles, one of the magazines in the Turkish army, wherein they had six hundred barrels of powder, blew up by accident, whereby six or seven hundred men were killed; which so enraged the infidels, that they would not grant any capitulation, but stormed the place with so much fury, that they took it, and put most of the garrison, with Sign...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

These hypocrites who build on saintly show,

...These hypocrites who build on saintly show,
Treating the body as the spirit's foe,
If they will shut their mouths with lime, like jars,
My jar of grape-juice I will then forego....Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

These potters who constantly plunge their fingers into

...ith their feet and striking with their hands, of what
think they? It is the same clay as the human body that
they are treating thus....Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

To a Historian

...
Who have treated of man as the creature of politics, aggregates, rulers and
 priests; 
I, habitan of the Alleghanies, treating of him as he is in himself, in his own
 rights, 
Pressing the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great
 pride of man in himself;)
Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, 
I project the history of the future....Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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