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Question: Do You Know Any Poems!?
Anything!!! To at least 20 lines!. It's for school!!!

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Toads (by Philip Larkin)

Why should I let the toad work
Squat on my life!?
Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork
And drive the brute off!?

Six days of the week it soils
With its sickening poison -
Just for paying a few bills!
That's out of proportion!.

Lots of folk live on their wits:
Lecturers, lispers,
Losers, loblolly-men, louts-
They don't end as paupers;

Lots of folk live up lanes
With fires in a bucket,
Eat windfalls and tinned sardines-
They seem to like it!.

Their nippers have got bare feet,
Their unspeakable wives
Are skinny as whippets - and yet
No one actually _starves_!.

Ah, were I courageous enough
To shout, Stuff your pension!
But I know, all too well, that's the stuff
That dreams are made on:

For something sufficiently toad-like
Squats in me, too;
Its hunkers are heavy as hard luck,
And cold as snow,

And will never allow me to blarney
My way of getting
The fame and the girl and the money
All at one sitting!.

I don't say, one bodies the other
One's spiritual truth;
But I do say it's hard to lose either,
When you have both!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

"The Love Song of J!. Alfred Prufrock" by TS Eliot!. (Or other poems by TS Eliot, you can't go wrong with him)!. You can find it for free online and print it out!. I love this poem!.

Other poets: Elizabeth Bishop, Silvia Plath, Ezra Pound-most of them have poems that are free online!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The raven!.

Edgar allen poe!.Www@QuestionHome@Com