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Famous Trotters Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Service, Robert William
...chly pay, I understand:
Yet not even a dingy dime
Can I make with my rhyme.

My brother Jim sells stuff to eat
Like trotters, tripe and sausage meat.
I dare not by his window stop,
Lest he should offer me a chop;
For though a starving bard I be,
To hell, say I, with charity!

My brothers all are proud of purse,
But though my poverty I curse,
I would not for a diadem
Exchange my lowly lot with them:
A garret and a crust for me,
And reams and dreams of Poetry....Read more of this...



by Levine, Philip
...and the full jowl come
The repose of the hung belly, from the purpose
They Lion grow.

 From the sweet glues of the trotters
Come the sweet kinks of the fist, from the full flower
Of the hams the thorax of caves,
From "Bow Down" come "Rise Up,"
Come they Lion from the reeds of shovels, 
The grained arm that pulls the hands,
They Lion grow.

 From my five arms and all my hands,
From all my white sins forgiven, they feed, 
From my car passing under the stars,
They Lion,...Read more of this...

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