Best Danes Poems

Great danes are majestic large dogs,
big enough to keep in a stall,
pony like heights,
huge appetites,
can't afford one they eat like a hog.







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Another night cumbered on the dazed cornerstone grave.
There goes another one less each wake that goes away.
Here and the great hereafter does not yet take hold.
Sudden that which is cold is true dead sores under toe.
Laugh comes through the echoes of love’s last lost.
Take away...

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Finn boasted he was all Irish
A DNA test he would relish
When Danes showed up
He got lost in his cup
And said DNA was all rubbish

Finn's kids never did care
That they had bright blond hair
But still he was wrought
At the very thought
That Danes were everywhere...

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Beowulf Excerpts
anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 8th-10th century AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

LO, praise the prowess of the Spear-Danes
whose clan-thanes ruled in days bygone,
possessed of dauntless courage and valor.

All have heard the honors the athelings won,
of Scyld Scefing, scourge of rebellious tribes,
wrecker of mead-benches,...

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