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Famous Bromide Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...e, skinned and crimson,
 Ran about the floor and cried,
And they said that I had the "jims" on,
 And they dosed me with bromide,
And they locked me in my bedroom --
 Me and one wee Blood Red Mouse --
Though I said: "To give my head room
 You had best unroof the house."

But my words were all unheeded,
 Though I told the grave M.D.
That the treatment really needed
 Was a dip in open sea
That was lapping just below me,
 Smooth as silver, white as snow,
And it took three men to ...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard



...should leave them in the lurch.

“That’s why I have you here with me 
To-night: you know a talk may take 
The place of bromide, cyanide, 
Et cetera. For heaven’s sake, 

“Why do you look at me like that?
What have I done to freeze you so? 
Dear man, you see where friendship means 
A few things yet that you don’t know; 

“And you see partly why it is 
That I am glad for what is gone:
For Sainte-Nitouche and for the world 
In me that followed. What lives on— 

“Well, here you ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

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