Famous Blab Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Confidence

...company.
Honest Injun! this is true,
Ever' word I 'm tellin' you!
But you won't be sich a scab
Ez to run aroun' an' blab.
Mebbe 't ain't the way with you,
But you know some fellers do.
Spoils a girl to let her know
'At you talk about her so.
Don't you know her? her name 's Liz,
Nicest girl in town she is.
Purty? ah, git out, you gilly—
Liz 'ud purt 'nigh knock you silly.
Y' ought 'o see her when she 's dressed
All up in her Sunday best,
All the fellers nudgin' ...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul


Elemental Drifts

...k’d, bent to the very earth, 
Oppress’d with myself that I have dared to open my mouth, 
Aware now, that, amid all that blab whose echoes recoil upon me, I have not once had the
 least
 idea who or what I am, 
But that before all my insolent poems the real ME stands yet untouch’d, untold,
 altogether
 unreach’d,
Withdrawn far, mocking me with mock-congratulatory signs and bows, 
With peals of distant ironical laughter at every word I have written, 
Pointing in silence to thes...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

Samson Agonistes

...ow hainous had the fact been, how deserving
Contempt, and scorn of all, to be excluded
All friendship, and avoided as a blab,
The mark of fool set on his front?
But I Gods counsel have not kept, his holy secret
Presumptuously have publish'd, impiously,
Weakly at least, and shamefully: A sin
That Gentiles in thir Parables condemn 
To thir abyss and horrid pains confin'd.

Man: Be penitent and for thy fault contrite,
But act not in thy own affliction, Son,
Repent the sin, but i...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Song of Myself

...bloody floor of the bed-room; 
I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair—I note where the pistol has
 fallen.

The blab of the pave, the tires of carts, sluff of boot-soles, talk of the
 promenaders; 
The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the
 shod horses on the granite floor; 
The snow-sleighs, the clinking, shouted jokes, pelts of snowballs; 
The hurrahs for popular favorites, the fury of rous’d mobs; 
The flap of the curtain’d ...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

The Big Boots Of Pain

...friend and reach out your hand, 
shutting down the thought that 
an axe may cut it off unexpectedly. 
One learns not to blab about all this 
except to yourself or the typewriter keys 
who tell no one until they get brave 
and crawl off onto the printed page. 

I'm getting bored with it, 
I tell the typewriter, 
this constantly walking around 
in wet shoes and then, surprise! 
Somehow DECEASED keeps getting 
stamped in red over the word HOPE. 
And I who keep falling thankfully...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne


The Landrail

...ass
And now tis in the grain

Tis like a fancy everywhere
A sort of living doubt
We know tis something but it neer
Will blab the secret out

If heard in close or meadow plots
It flies if we pursue
But follows if we notice not
The close and meadow through

Boys know the note of many a bird
In their birdnesting bounds
But when the landrails noise is heard
They wonder at the sounds

They look in every tuft of grass
Thats in their rambles met
They peep in every bush they pass
And...Read more of this...
by Clare, John

The Millers Tale

...e, thou shalt be wood**." *betray **mad
"Nay, Christ forbid it for his holy blood!"
Quoth then this silly man; "I am no blab,* *talker
Nor, though I say it, am I *lief to gab*. *fond of speech*
Say what thou wilt, I shall it never tell
To child or wife, by him that harried Hell." 

"Now, John," quoth Nicholas, "I will not lie,
I have y-found in my astrology,
As I have looked in the moone bright,
That now on Monday next, at quarter night,
Shall fall a rain, and that so wil...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Whistle Of Sandy McGraw

...ould be,
 And listenin' hard wis a spectacled Boche;
Then Sandy turned roon' and he noddit tae me,
 And he says: "Dinna blab on me, Sergeant McTosh.
The auld chap is deein'. He likes me tae play.
 It's makin' him happy. Jist see his een shine!"
And thrillin' and sweet in the hert o' the fray
 Wee Sandy wis playin' The Watch on the Rhine.

 * * * * *

The last scene o' a' -- 'twas the day that we took
 That bit o' black ruin they ca' Labbiesell.
It seemed the hale hillside jis...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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