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Famous Big(A) Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...MY blessin’s upon thy sweet wee lippie!
 My blessin’s upon thy e’e-brie!
Thy smiles are sae like my blythe sodger laddie,
 Thou’s aye the dearer, and dearer to me!


But I’ll big a bow’r on yon bonie banks,
 Whare Tay rins wimplin’ by sae clear;
An’ I’ll cleed thee in the tartan sae fine,
 And mak thee a man like thy daddie dear....Read more of this...



by Burns, Robert
...THERE was a lass, they ca’d her Meg,
 And she held o’er the moors to spin;
There was a lad that follow’d her,
 They ca’d him Duncan Davison.
The moor was dreigh, and Meg was skeigh,
 Her favour Duncan could na win;
For wi’ the rock she wad him knock,
 And aye she shook the temper-pin.


As o’er the moor they lightly foor,
 A burn was clear, a glen ...Read more of this...

by Burns, Robert
...WEE, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
 Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
 Wi’ murd’ring pattle!


I’m truly sorry man’s dominion,
Has broken nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
 Which makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion...Read more of this...

by Laurence Dunbar, Paul
...Yes, my ha't 's ez ha'd ez stone—
Go 'way, Sam, an' lemme 'lone.
No; I ain't gwine change my min'—
Ain't gwine ma'y you—nuffin' de kin'.
Phiny loves you true an' deah?
Go ma'y Phiny; whut I keer?
Oh, you need n't mou'n an' cry—
I don't keer how soon you die.
Got a present! Whut you got?
Somef'n fu' de pan er pot!
Huh! yo' sass do sholy beat—
Thin...Read more of this...

by Field, Eugene
...Whenas ye plaisaunt Aperille shoures have washed and purged awaye
Ye poysons and ye rheums of earth to make a merrie May,
Ye shraddy boscage of ye woods ben full of birds that syng
Right merrilie a madrigal unto ye waking spring,
Ye whiles that when ye face of earth ben washed and wiped ycleane
Her peeping posies blink and stare like they had ben her een;
...Read more of this...



by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...By the winding Wollondilly where the weeping willows weep, 
And the shepherd, with his billy, half awake and half asleep, 
Folds his fleecy flocks that linger homewards in the setting sun 
Lived my hero, Jim the Ringer, "cocky" on Mylora Run. 
Jimmy loved the super's daughter, Miss Amelia Jane McGrath. 
Long and earnestly he sought her, but he fear...Read more of this...

by Burns, Robert
...Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
          Wi' bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
          Wi' murd'ring pattle!

I'm truly sorry man's dominion
Has broken Nature's social union,
An' justifies that ill opinion
          Which makes thee startle
At ...Read more of this...

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