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Famous Bric A Brac Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Parker, Dorothy
...Little things that no one needs -- 
Little things to joke about -- 
Little landscapes, done in beads. 
Little morals, woven out, 
Little wreaths of gilded grass, 
Little brigs of whittled oak 
Bottled painfully in glass; 
These are made by lonely folk. 

Lonely folk have lines of days 
Long and faltering and thin; 
Therefore -- little wax bouquets,...Read more of this...



by Pinsky, Robert
...to Robert Hass and in memory of Elliot Gilbert


Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn,
Bashõ and his friends go out to view the moon;
In summer, gasoline rainbow in the gutter,

The secret courtesy that courses like ichor
Through the old form of the rude, full-scale joke,
Impossible to tell in writing. "Bashõ"

He named himself, "Banana Tree": ban...Read more of this...

by Sexton, Anne
...And I solemnly swear
on the chill of secrecy
that I know you not, this room never,
the swollen dress I wear,
nor the anonymous spoons that free me,
nor this calendar nor the pulse we pare and cover.

For all these present,
before that wandering ghost,
that yellow moth of my summer bed,
I say: this small event
is not. So I prepare, am dosed
in ether...Read more of this...

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