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Famous Avowedly Poems by Famous Poets

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

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For drink I would venture my neck;
 A hizzie’s the half of my craft;
But what could ye other expect
 Of ane that’s avowedly daft?


I ance was tied up like a stirk,
 For civilly swearing and quaffin;
I ance was abus’d i’ the kirk,
 For towsing a lass i’ my daffin.


Poor Andrew that tumbles for sport,
 Let naebody name wi’ a jeer;
There’s even, I’m tauld, i’ the Court
 A tumbler ca’d the Premier.


Observ’d ye yon reverend lad
 Mak faces to tickle the mob;
He rai...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...e of its publication, comparatively little was known in this 
country of the incidents of his career, and my sketch was avowedly 
written as a temporary stop-gap, as it were, pending the production 
of some work really deserving the tittle of a life of Goethe. Not 
to mention other contributions to the literature of the subject, 
Mr. Lewis's important volumes give the English reader all the information 
he is likely to require respecting Goethe's career, and my short ...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

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