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Famous Bogies Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Grimy glass

Flickering firelight

 In black-leaded grates.





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Hunslet de Ledes

Hop-scotch, hide and seek,

Bogies-on-wheels

Not one tree in Hunslet

Except in the cemetery

The lake filled in

For fifty years,

The bluebell has rung

Its last perfumed peal.





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I couldn’t play out on Sunday

Mam and dad thought us a cut

Above the rest, it was another

Test I failed, keeping me and

Margaret apart was like the Aztecs

Tearing the heart from the living fle...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry



...or one, the IRISH brogue is: 
And then, for all you have to do, 
One pound a week they offer you, 
And find yourself in Bogies!...Read more of this...
by Carroll, Lewis
...e light, 
And it moves with the moving flame. 

Now my little heart goes a beating like a drum, 
With the breath of the Bogies in my hair; 
And all around the candle and the crooked shadows come, 
And go marching along up the stair. 

The shadow of the balusters, the shadow of the lamp, 
The shadow of the child that goes to bed-- 
All the wicked shadows coming tramp, tramp, tramp, 
With the black night overhead....Read more of this...
by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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