Famous Boggy Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Together

by Siegfried Sassoon
 Splashing along the boggy woods all day, 
And over brambled hedge and holding clay, 
I shall not think of him: 
But when the watery fields grow brown and dim, 
And hounds have lost their fox, and horses tire, 
I know that he’ll be with me on my way 
Home through the darkness to the evening fire. 
He’s jumped each...Read more of this...

Briefly It Enters and Briefly Speaks

by Jane Kenyon
 I am the blossom pressed in a book,
found again after two hundred years. . . .

I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper. . . . 

When the young girl who starves
sits down to a table
she will sit beside me. . . . 

I am food on the prisoner's plate. . . . 

I am water rushing to...Read more of this...

A narrow fellow in the grass

by Emily Dickinson
A narrow fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides;
You may have met him,--did you not,
His notice sudden is.

The grass divides as with a comb,
A spotted shaft is seen;
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on.

He likes a boggy acre,
A floor too cool for corn.
Yet when a child, and barefoot,
I more than once, at morn,

Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash
Unbraiding in...Read more of this...

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