Famous Bawled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Cloud in Trousers

...f an archangel¡¯s chorale, 
god, who has been plundered, was advancing in 
wrath! 

But the street, squatting down, bawled: 
¡°Let¡¯s go and guzzle!¡± 

Krupps and Krupplets1 paint 
a bristling of menacing brows on the city, 
but in the mouth 
corpselets of dead words putrefy; 
and only two thrive and grow fat: 
¡°swine,¡± 
and another besides, 
apparently ¨C ¡°borsch.¡± 

Poets, 
soaked in plaints and sobs, 
break from the street, rumpling their matted hair...Read more of this...
by Mayakovsky, Vladimir


A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices

...A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices
Which, bawled by boys from mile to mile,
Spreads its curious opinion
To a million merciful and sneering men,
While families cuddle the joys of the fireside
When spurred by tale of dire lone agony.
A newspaper is a court
Where every one is kindly and unfairly tried
By a squalor of honest men.
A newspaper is a market
Where wisdom sells its freedom
And melons are crow...Read more of this...
by Crane, Stephen

Cain and Abel

...dropped him dead!

The Herd-bulls ran when they smelt the blood,
An' horned an' pawed in that Red Mud.
The Calves they bawled, and the Steers they milled,
Because it was the First Man Killed; -
An' the whole Herd broke for the Land of Nod, 
An' Cain was left to be judged by God!

But, seein' all he had had to bear,
I never could call the Judgment fair!...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

Corporal Stare

...rawberries in cream, and mutton chops. 
Said Jenkins, as my hand he shook, 
“They’ll put this in the history book.” 
We bawled Church anthems in choro 
Of Bethlehem and Hermon snow, 
With drinking songs, a jolly sound 
To help the good red Pommard round. 
Stories and laughter interspersed,
We drowned a long La Bass?e thirst— 
Trenches in June make throats damned dry. 
Then through the window suddenly, 
Badge, stripes and medals all complete, 
We saw him swagger up the street,...Read more of this...
by Graves, Robert

Questions From A Worker Who Reads

...sed in song
Only palaces for its inhabitans? Even in fabled Atlantis
The night the ocean engulfed it
The drowning still bawled for their slaves.

The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
Caesar beat the Gauls.
Did he not have even a cook with him?

Philip of Spain wept when his armada
Went down. Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the Second won the Seven Year's War. Who
Else won it?

Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every ten years a g...Read more of this...
by Brecht, Bertolt


The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

...clattered with the pails.

We sewed the sacks, we broke the stones,
We turned the dusty drill:
We banged the tins, and bawled the hymns,
And sweated on the mill:
But in the heart of every man
Terror was lying still.

So still it lay that every day
Crawled like a weed-clogged wave:
And we forgot the bitter lot
That waits for fool and knave,
Till once, as we tramped in from work,
We passed an open grave.

With yawning mouth the yellow hole
Gaped for a living thing;
The very mu...Read more of this...
by Wilde, Oscar

The Spooniad

...t, and closed the polls, before the door
Of Trainor's drug store Bengal Mike, in tones
That echoed through the village, bawled the taunt:
"Who was your mother, hog-eyed?" In a trice,
As when a wild boar turns upon the hound
That through the brakes upon an August day
Has gashed him with its teeth, the hog-eyed one
Rushed with his giant arms on Bengal Mike
And grabbed him by the throat. Then rose to heaven
The frightened cries of boys, and yells of men
Forth rushing to the stre...Read more of this...
by Masters, Edgar Lee

Thompsons Lunch Room -- Grand Central Station

...lated `epergnes'.
The electric clock jerks every half-minute:
"Coming! -- Past!"
"Three beef-steaks and a chicken-pie,"
Bawled through a slide while the clock jerks heavily.
A man carries a china mug of coffee to a distant chair.
Two rice puddings and a salmon salad
Are pushed over the counter;
The unfulfilled chairs open to receive them.
A spoon falls upon the floor with the impact of metal striking stone,
And the sound throws across the room
Sharp, invisible zigzags
Of silv...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

To A Fallen Elm

...d never shelter thee
Thoust heard the knave supply his canting powers
With wrongs illusions when he wanted friends
That bawled for shelter when he lived in showers
And when clouds vanished made thy shade ammends
With axe at root he felled thee to the ground
And barked of freedom—O I hate that sound

It grows the cant terms of enslaving tools
To wrong another by the name of right
It grows a liscence with oer bearing fools
To cheat plain honesty by force of might
Thus came encl...Read more of this...
by Clare, John

Yellow

...do? What could I say?
'Twas such a lonely place.
Tongue-tied I saw him stride away,
I never saw his face.
I should have bawled the bastard out:
A yellow dog he slew;
But worse, he proved beyond a doubt
That - I was yellow too....Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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