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Famous Happing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...lly sheep, wha bide this brattle
 O’ winter war,
And thro’ the drift, deep-lairing, sprattle
 Beneath a scar.


Ilk happing bird,—wee, helpless thing!
That, in the merry months o’ spring,
Delighted me to hear thee sing,
 What comes o’ thee?
Whare wilt thou cow’r thy chittering wing,
 An’ close thy e’e?


Ev’n you, on murdering errands toil’d,
Lone from your savage homes exil’d,
The blood-stain’d roost, and sheep-cote spoil’d
 My heart forgets,
While pityless the tempest w...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



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