Famous Brindle Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Dedication To Providence

by Robert William Service
 I loved to toy with tuneful rhyme,
My fancies into verse to weave;
For as I walked my words would chime
So bell-like I could scarce believe;
My rhymes rippled like a brook,
My stanzas bloomed like blossoms gay:
And that is why I dream this book
 A verseman's holiday.

The palm-blades brindle in the blaze
Of sunsets splendouring the sea;
The Gloaming is a lilac haze
That impish...Read more of this...

Questionnaire

by Carl Sandburg
 HAVE I told any man to be a liar for my sake?
Have I sold ice to the poor in summer and coal to the poor in winter for the sake of daughters who nursed brindle bull terriers and led with a leash their dogs clothed in plaid wool jackets?
Have I given any man an earful too much of my...Read more of this...

The Gundaroo Bullock

by Andrew Barton Paterson
 Oh, there's some that breeds the Devon that's as solid as a stone, 
And there's some that breeds the brindle which they call the "Goulburn Roan"; 
But amongst the breeds of cattle there are very, very few 
Like the hairy-whiskered bullock that they breed at Gundaroo. 
Far away by Grabben Gullen, where the Murrumbidgee flows, 
There's a block of...Read more of this...

Clover

by Sidney Lanier
 Inscribed to the Memory of John Keats.



Dear uplands, Chester's favorable fields,
My large unjealous Loves, many yet one --
A grave good-morrow to your Graces, all,
Fair tilth and fruitful seasons!
Lo, how still!
The midmorn empties you of men, save me;
Speak to your lover, meadows! None can hear.
I lie as lies yon placid Brandywine,
Holding the hills and heavens in my heart
For contemplation.
'Tis a...Read more of this...

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