Famous Codger Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Portrait

by Robert William Service
 Painter, would you make my picture?
Just forget the moral stricture.
 Let me sit
With my belly to the table,
Swilling all the wine I'm able,
 Pip a-lit;
Not a stiff and stuffy croaker
In a frock coat and a choker
 Let me be;
But a rollicking old fellow
With a visage ripe and mellow
 As you see.

Just a twinkle-eyed old codger,
And of death as artful...Read more of this...

Old Codger

by Robert William Service
 Of garden truck he made his fare,
 As his bright eyes bore witness;
Health was his habit and his care,
 His hobby human fitness.
He sang the praise of open sky,
 The gladth of Nature's giving;
And when at last he came to die
 It was of too long living.

He held aloof from hate and strife,
 Drank peace in dreamful doses;
He never...Read more of this...

Titine

by Robert William Service
 Although I have a car of class,
 A limousine,
I also have a jenny ass
 I call Titine.
And if I had in sober sense
 To choose between,
I know I'd give the preference
 To sleek Titine.

My chauffeur drives my Cadillac
 In uniform.
I wear a worn coat on my back
 That he would scorn.
He speeds with umpty equine power,
 Like an express;
I...Read more of this...

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