Famous Bouncing Poems by Famous Poets

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

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A Fountain a Bottle a Donkeys Ears and Some Books

...then, right here is where I show you books.
Come straight down off this mountain just as fast
As we can fall and keep a-bouncing on our feet.
It's hell for knees unless done hell-for-leather."

Be ready, I thought, for almost anything.

We struck a road I didn't recognize,
But welcomed for the chance to lave my shoes
In dust once more. We followed this a mile,
Perhaps, to where it ended at a house
I didn't know was there. It was the kind
To bring me to for broad-board panelin...Read more of this...
by Frost, Robert


A piteous plaint

...s one year old to-day."
I threw a kiss that nestled
In the curls upon her brow,
But she never turned to thank me--
That bouncing Martha Clow!

She ought to know I love her,
For I've told her that I do;
And I've brought her nuts and apples,
And sometimes candy, too!
I'd drag her in my little cart
If her mother would allow
That delicate attention
To her daughter, Martha Clow.

O Martha! pretty Martha!
Will you always be so cold?
Will you always be as cruel
As you are at one-yea...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene

Abc

...Great A, little a,  Bouncing B!The cat's in the cupboard,  And can't see me....Read more of this...
by Goose, Mother

Beowulf (Modern English)

...ng lord—everyone trusted his spirit,
that he had great pride, although he had not kept his kin
secure in mercy in the bouncing of blades— (ll. 1159b-68a)

Then the lady of the Scyldings spoke:  “Receive this cup,
my gracious lord, dispenser of treasures.
May you always prosper, gold-friend to men,
and speak in mild words unto the Geats, as one must do.
Be gracious to them, mindful of the giving,
which you have received from near and far.
One has told me that you wis...Read more of this...
by Anonymous,

Faces In A Crowd

...king conductress, apologise over-loudly for their too

Quiet cars. Plump fingers stroke smooth cheeks - bounce

Bounce, bouncing baby- faces, so manly to wet-shave!



Head heavy from dreams of bronze-fleshed centaurs

Tense with ‘The New Poets’ - no rhythm, failure of connection,

Who slept with who to get in. Aargh!

Forty rose-bearing ten-year old faces are waiting

And behind them in the staff-room corpses are coffined

In eternal celluloid faces....Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry


Goblin Market

...was it night or day;
Sprang up the bank, tore through the furze,
Threaded copse and dingle,
And heard her penny jingle
Bouncing in her purse, --
Its bounce was music to her ear.
She ran and ran
As if she feared some goblin man
Dogged her with gibe or curse
Or something worse:
But not one goblin skurried after,
Nor was she pricked by fear;
The kind heart made her windy-paced
That urged her home quite out of breath with haste
And inward laughter.

She cried "Laura," up the gar...Read more of this...
by Rossetti, Christina

Herbert White

...f the address; and
snuck up to the window to look in ...
 --There he was, a kid
six months old on his lap, laughing
and bouncing the kid, happy in his old age
to play the papa after years of sleeping around,--
it twisted me up ...
 To think that what he wouldn't give me,
 he wanted to give them ...

 I could have killed the bastard ...

--Naturally, I just got right back in the car,
and believe me, was determined, determined,
to head straight for home ...

 but the more I dro...Read more of this...
by Bidart, Frank

Love In The Asylum

...ead,
Or rides the imagined oceans of the male wards.

 She has come possessed
Who admits the delusive light through the bouncing wall,
 Possessed by the skies

She sleeps in the narrow trough yet she walks the dust
 Yet raves at her will
On the madhouse boards worn thin by my walking tears.

And taken by light in her arms at long and dear last
 I may without fail
Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars....Read more of this...
by Thomas, Dylan

May

...re is music in the noise
The village childern mad for sport
In school times leisure ever short
That crick and catch the bouncing ball
And run along the church yard wall
Capt wi rude figured slabs whose claims
In times bad memory hath no names
Oft racing round the nookey church
Or calling ecchos in the porch
And jilting oer the weather cock
Viewing wi jealous eyes the clock
Oft leaping grave stones leaning hights
Uncheckt wi mellancholy sights
The green grass swelld in many a ...Read more of this...
by Clare, John

Poem On His Birthday

...ld then,
 With more triumphant faith
That ever was since the world was said,
 Spins its morning of praise,

 I hear the bouncing hills
Grow larked and greener at berry brown
 Fall and the dew larks sing
Taller this thunderclap spring, and how
 More spanned with angles ride
The mansouled fiery islands! Oh,
 Holier then their eyes,
And my shining men no more alone
 As I sail out to die....Read more of this...
by Thomas, Dylan

Storm Windows

...as I walked by,
Something I should have liked to say to you,
Something... the dry grass bent under the pane
Brimful of bouncing water... something of
A swaying clarity which blindly echoes
This lonely afternoon of memories
And missed desires, while the wintry rain
(Unspeakable, the distance in the mind!)
Runs on the standing windows and away....Read more of this...
by Nemerov, Howard

The Ball Poem

...What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do? I saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over—there it is in the water!
No use to say 'O there are other balls':
An ultimate shaking grief fixes the boy
As he stands rigid, trembling, staring down
All his young days into the harbour where
His ball went. I would not intrude on him,
A dime, another ball, is worthless. Now
He senses first responsibility
In a...Read more of this...
by Berryman, John

The Ballad Of Caseys Billy-Goat

...hed the day it swallowed Missis Rooney's ould red shawl.

Now Missis Annie Rooney was a winsome widow women,
And many a bouncing boy had sought to make her change her name;
And living just across the way 'twas surely only human
A lonesome man like Casey should be wishfully the same.
So every Sunday, shaved and shined, he'd make the fine occasion
To call upon the lady, and she'd take his and coat;
And supping tea it seemed that she might yield to his persuasion,
But alas! he h...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

The Ballad Of The Children Of The Czar

...1

The children of the Czar
Played with a bouncing ball

In the May morning, in the Czar's garden,
Tossing it back and forth.

It fell among the flowerbeds
Or fled to the north gate.

A daylight moon hung up
In the Western sky, bald white.

Like Papa's face, said Sister,
Hurling the white ball forth.

 2

While I ate a baked potato
Six thousand miles apart,

In Brooklyn, in 1916,
Aged two, irrationa...Read more of this...
by Schwartz, Delmore

The Everlasting Mercy

...your chairs. 
The punch'll come when kettle bubble, 
But don't make noise or there'll be trouble." 
'Twas Doxy Jane, a bouncing girl 
With eyes all sparks and hair all curl, 
And cheeks all red and lips all coal, 
And thirst for men instead of soul. 
She's trod her pathway to the fire. 
Old Rivers had his nephew by her. 

I step aside from Tom and Jimmy 
To find if she'd a kiss to gimme. 
I blew out lamp 'fore she could speak. 
She said, "If you ain't got a cheek," 
And then...Read more of this...
by Masefield, John

The Fury Of Rainstorms

...The rain drums down like red ants, 
each bouncing off my window. 
The ants are in great pain 
and they cry out as they hit 
as if their little legs were only 
stitche don and their heads pasted. 
And oh they bring to mind the grave, 
so humble, so willing to be beat upon 
with its awful lettering and 
the body lying underneath 
without an umbrella. 
Depression is boring, I think 
and I would do bet...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne

The Hard Times In Elfland

...For I was out till after one,
Surveying chimney-tops and roofs,
And planning how it could be done
Without my reindeers' bouncing hoofs.

"`My dear,' says Mrs. Claus, that night
(A most superior woman she!)
`It never, never can be right
That you, deep-sunk in poverty,

"`This year should leave your poor old bed,
And trot about, bent down with toys,
(There's Kris a-crying now for bread!)
To give to other people's boys.

"`Since you've been out, the news arrives
The Elfs' Insura...Read more of this...
by Lanier, Sidney

The Harvest Moon

...The flame-red moon, the harvest moon,
Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing,
A vast balloon,
Till it takes off, and sinks upward
To lie on the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon. 
The harvest moon has come,
Booming softly through heaven, like a bassoon.
And the earth replies all night, like a deep drum. 

So people can't sleep,
So they go out where elms and oak trees keep
A kneeling vigil, in a religious hush...Read more of this...
by Hughes, Ted

To Be of Use

...off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek heads of seals
bouncing like half-submerged balls.

I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,
who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience,
who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward,
who do what has to be done, again and again.

I want to be with people who submerge
in the task, who go into the fields to harvest
and work in a row an...Read more of this...
by Piercy, Marge

Untitled

...s, eye sat in the grand place cafe & heard
duke's place, played after salsa
between the old majestic architecture, jazz bouncing off
all that gilded gold history snoring complacently there
flowers all over the ground, up inside the sound
the old white band jammin the music
tight & heavy, like some food
pushin pedal to the metal
gettin all the way down
under the scaffolding surrounding
l'hotel de ville, chattanooga choochoo
choo choing all the way home, upside walls, under gol...Read more of this...
by Troupe, Quincy

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