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Famous Warst Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...r,
 Whate’er betide it,
I’ll frankly gie her ’t a’ thegither,
 An’ let her guide it.”


But, sir, this pleas’d them warst of a’,
An’ therefore, Tam, when that I saw,
I said “Gude night,” an’ cam’ awa’,
 An’ left the Session;
I saw they were resolvèd a’
 On my oppression....Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...oyte on her way;
Be’t to me, be’t frae me, e’en let the jade gae:
Come Ease, or come Travail, come Pleasure or Pain,
My warst word is: “Welcome, and welcome again!”
 Contented wi’ little, &c....Read more of this...

by Burns, Robert
...bread,
 As lang’s we’re hale and fier:
 “Mair spier na, nor fear na,” 1
 Auld age ne’er mind a feg;
 The last o’t, the warst o’t
 Is only but to beg.


To lie in kilns and barns at e’en,
When banes are craz’d, and bluid is thin,
 Is doubtless, great distress!
Yet then content could make us blest;
Ev’n then, sometimes, we’d snatch a taste
 Of truest happiness.
The honest heart that’s free frae a’
 Intended fraud or guile,
However Fortune kick the ba’,
 Has aye some ca...Read more of this...

by Burns, Robert
...’ house an hal’,
While scabs and botches did him gall,
 Wi’ bitter claw;
An’ lows’d his ill-tongu’d wicked scaul’,
 Was warst ava?


But a’ your doings to rehearse,
Your wily snares an’ fechtin fierce,
Sin’ that day Michael 2 did you pierce,
 Down to this time,
Wad ding a Lallan tounge, or Erse,
 In prose or rhyme.


An’ now, auld Cloots, I ken ye’re thinkin,
A certain bardie’s rantin, drinkin,
Some luckless hour will send him linkin
 To your black pit;
But faith! he’ll t...Read more of this...

by Burns, Robert
...as e’er did draw;
Forbye sax mae I’ve sell’t awa,
 That thou hast nurst:
They drew me thretteen pund an’ twa,
 The vera warst.


Mony a sair daurk we twa hae wrought,
An’ wi’ the weary warl’ fought!
An’ mony an anxious day, I thought
 We wad be beat!
Yet here to crazy age we’re brought,
 Wi’ something yet.


An’ think na’, my auld trusty servan’,
That now perhaps thou’s less deservin,
An’ thy auld days may end in starvin;
 For my last fow,
A heapit stimpart, I’ll rese...Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...s till’d, he’s right eneugh;
A country girl at her wheel,
Her dizzen’s dune, she’s unco weel;
But gentlemen, an’ ladies warst,
Wi’ ev’n-down want o’ wark are curst.
They loiter, lounging, lank an’ lazy;
Tho’ deil-haet ails them, yet uneasy;
Their days insipid, dull, an’ tasteless;
Their nights unquiet, lang, an’ restless.
 An’ev’n their sports, their balls an’ races,
Their galloping through public places,
There’s sic parade, sic pomp, an’ art,
The joy can scarcely rea...Read more of this...

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