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The term "sainted uncles" has been searched for 99 times before on Poetry Connection. The first time was on November 18th, 2004.
1. The Man from Goondiwindi, Q. - written by Andrew Barton Paterson
Read 635 times on Poetry Connection.
I
This is the sunburnt bushman who
Came down from Goondiwindi, Q.
II
This is the Push from Waterloo
That spotted the sunburnt bushman who
Came down from Goondiwindi, Q.
III
These are the wealthy uncles -- two,
Part of the... (Read full poem)
2. Are You Content? - written by William Butler Yeats
From New Poems.
Published in 1938.
Read 2730 times on Poetry Connection.
I call on those that call me son,
Grandson, or great-grandson,
On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts,
To judge what I have done.
Have I, that put it into words,
Spoilt what old loins have sent?
Eyes spiritualised by death can judge,
I... (Read full poem)
3. Heredity - written by Tony Harrison
From Norton Anthology of English Literature, Seventh Edition ,Volume 2.
Published in 1978.
Read 575 times on Poetry Connection.
How you became a poet's a mystery!
Wherever did you get your talent from?
I say: I had two uncles, Joe and Harry-
one was a stammerer, the other dumb.(Read full poem)
4. The Dead-Beat - written by Wilfred Owen
Read 1798 times on Poetry Connection.
He dropped, -- more sullenly than wearily,
Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat,
And none of us could kick him to his feet;
Just blinked at my revolver, blearily;
-- Didn't appear to know a war was on,
Or see the blasted trench at which he... (Read full poem)
5. The Song of the Oak - written by G.K. Chesterton
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The Druids waved their golden knives
And danced around the Oak
When they had sacrificed a man;
But though the learned search and scan
No single modern person can
Entirely see the joke.
But though they cut the throats of men
They cut... (Read full poem)
6. Exchanging Hats - written by Elizabeth Bishop
From Uncollected Poems.
Published in 1956.
Read 4591 times on Poetry Connection.
Unfunny uncles who insist
in trying on a lady's hat,
--oh, even if the joke falls flat,
we share your slight transvestite twist
in spite of our embarrassment.
Costume and custom are complex.
The headgear of the other sex
inspires us to... (Read full poem)
7. Like A Vocation - written by W. H. Auden
Published in 1939.
Read 3647 times on Poetry Connection.
Not as that dream Napoleon, rumour's dread and centre,
Before who's riding all the crowds divide,
Who dedicates a column and withdraws,
Nor as that general favourite and breezy visitor
To whom the weather and the ruins mean so much,
Nor as any of... (Read full poem)
8. Easter Morning - written by A.R. Ammons
From The North Carolina Poems.
Published in 1994.
Read 4383 times on Poetry Connection.
I have a life that did not become,
that turned aside and stopped,
astonished:
I hold it in me like a pregnancy or
as on my lap a child
not to grow old but dwell on
it is to his grave I most
frequently return and return
to ask what is... (Read full poem)
9. The Pigeon Shooting - written by Robert William Service
From Lyrics of a Low Brow.
Read 966 times on Poetry Connection.
They say that Monte Carlo is
A sunny place for shady people;
But I'm not in the gambling biz,
And sober as a parish steeple.
so though this paradisal spot
The devil's playground of the rich is,
I love it and I love it not,
As men may sometimes fall... (Read full poem)
10. Night Mail - written by W. H. Auden
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This is the night mail crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,
Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner, the girl next door.
Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb:
The gradient's against... (Read full poem)
11. THE MAID OF THE MILL'S TREACHERY. - written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From The Poems.
Published in 1853.
Read 552 times on Poetry Connection.
[This Ballad is introduced in the Wanderjahre,
in a tale called The Foolish Pilgrim.]
WHENCE comes our friend so hastily,
When scarce the Eastern sky is grey?
Hath he just ceased, though cold it be,
In yonder holy spot to pray?
The brook... (Read full poem)
12. A Child's Christmas In Wales - written by Dylan Thomas
Read 11343 times on Poetry Connection.
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound
except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember
whether it snowed for six days... (Read full poem)
13. My Cicely - written by Thomas Hardy
Read 1013 times on Poetry Connection.
"ALIVE?"--And I leapt in my wonder,
Was faint of my joyance,
And grasses and grove shone in garments
Of glory to me.
"She lives, in a plenteous well-being,
To-day as aforehand;
The dead bore the name--though a rare one--
The name that... (Read full poem)
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