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Famous Bologna Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...THE dago shovelman sits by the railroad track
Eating a noon meal of bread and bologna.
A train whirls by, and men and women at tables
Alive with red roses and yellow jonquils,
Eat steaks running with brown gravy,
Strawberries and cream, eclaires and coffee.
The dago shovelman finishes the dry bread and bologna,
Washes it down with a dipper from the water-boy,
And goes back to the second half of a ten-hour day's work
Keeping the road-b...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl



...ar of English itself
and sounding my loud vernacular horn, speed off
down a road that will never lead to Rome, not even Bologna....Read more of this...
by Collins, Billy
...!_

*1 Neck and shoulder of a horse.

*2 The stage or scaffolding for a coffin whilst
*2 in the church.

*3 Giovanni of Bologna, a sculptor....Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert
...s adhesiveness was grim,
I could not pry apart from him:
And so in our hotel-ward walk
Meekly I listened to his talk.

"Bologna! Say, the lunch was swell;
Them wops know how to feed you well.
Verona! There I met a blonde"
Oh how that baby could respond!
Siena! That's the old burg where
We soused on Asti in the square.

"Antiquity! Why, that's the bunk -
Statues and all that mouldy junk
Will never get you anywhere . . .
My line is ladies' underware,
And better than a dozen Dan...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...ar with the honour'd loadOf keys and cloak, returning to his home,Shall see Bologna and our noble Rome,If no ill fortune bar his further road.Best to your meek and high-born lamb belongsTo beat the fierce wolf down: so may it beWith all who loyalty and love deny.Console at length your waiting country's wrongs,Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco



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