Famous Bona Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Bona poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous bona poems. These examples illustrate what a famous bona poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Lindley, John
...huffling Uncle Tom
for your nickels and your dimes.
I’m the Alabami Mammy
for a state I’ve never seen.
I’m the bona fide Minstrel Man
whose blackface won’t wash clean.
I’m the banjo playing Sambo
with a fixed and manic grin.
I’m the South’s defiant answer
that the Yankees didn’t win.
I’m the inconvenient nigrah
that no one can let go.
I’m the cutesy picaninny
with my hair tied up in bows.
I’m the funny little shoeshine boy.
I’m the convict...Read more of this...
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Crowley, Aleister
...we trembled from a laugh to a caress,
And the God came warm upon us in our pagan allegresse.
Was the Baile de la Bona too seductive? Did you feel
Through the silence and the softness all the tension of the steel?
For your hair was full of roses, and my flesh was full of thorns,
And the midnight came upon us worth a million crazy morns.
Ah! my Gipsy, my Gitana, my Saliya! were you fain
For the dance to turn to earnest? - O the sunny land of Spain!
My Gitana, m...Read more of this...
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Betjeman, John
...od all alone,
And from Greenford scent of mayfields
Most enticingly was blown
Over market gardens tidy,
Taverns for the bona fide,
Cockney singers, cockney shooters,
Murray Poshes, Lupin Pooters,
Long in Kelsal Green and Highgate silent under soot and stone....Read more of this...
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Alighieri, Dante
...rba,
che viene e va, e quei la discolora
per cui ella esce de la terra acerba».
E io a lui: «Tuo vero dir m'incora
bona umiltà, e gran tumor m'appiani;
ma chi è quei di cui tu parlavi ora?».
«Quelli è», rispuose, «Provenzan Salvani;
ed è qui perché fu presuntuoso
a recar Siena tutta a le sue mani.
Ito è così e va, sanza riposo,
poi che morì; cotal moneta rende
a sodisfar chi è di là troppo oso».
E io: «Se quello spirito ch'attende,
pria che si penta, l'orl...Read more of this...
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