Famous Bumps Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Child and mother

...
There'll be no little tired-out boy to undress,
No questions or cares to perplex you,
There'll be no little bruises or bumps to caress,
Nor patching of stockings to vex you;
For I'll rock you away on a silver-dew stream
And sing you asleep when you're weary,
And no one shall know of our beautiful dream
But you and your own little dearie.

And when I am tired I'll nestle my head
In the bosom that's soothed me so often,
And the wide-awake stars shall sing, in my stead,
A song ...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene


Ella Fitzgerald

...Pin- La- SCATS :
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tis- tas- bumps
 ket raps ket, back.

 yel- bas-
Wins low ket....Read more of this...
by Emanuel, James A

Give Me Back My Rags #12

...break off once for all

I'll just be what I am
Without root without branch without crown
I'll lean on myself
On my own bumps and bruises

I'll be the hawthorn stake through you
That's all I can be in you
In you spoilsport in you muddlehead

Get lost...Read more of this...
by Popa, Vasko

In the footsteps of the walking air

...ophetic chickens weave their cloth of awe
And hillsides lift green wings in somber journeying.

Night in his soft haste bumps on the shoulders of the abyss
And a single drop of dark blood covers the earth.

Now is the China of the spirit at walking
In my reaches.
A sable organ sounds in my gathered will
And love's inscrutable skeleton sings.

My seeing moves under a vegetable shroud
And dead forests stand where once Mary stood.

Sullen stone dogs wait in the groves of water ....Read more of this...
by Patchen, Kenneth

Johnny Boer

...cunning as a fox. 
At night you mark her right ahead, you see her clean and clear, 
Next day at dawn -- "What, ho! she bumps" -- from somewhere in the rear. 
Or else the keenest-eyed patrol will miss him with the glass -- 
He's lying hidden in the rocks to let the leaders pass; 
But when the mainguard comes along he opens up the fun; 
There's lots of ammunition for the little Maxim gun. 

But after all the job is sure, although the job is slow. 
We have to see the business t...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton


Prof. vere de blaw

...n' Casey at the till,--
We all stopped short an' held our breaths (ez a feller sometimes will),
An' sot there more like bumps on logs than healthy, husky men,
Ez the memories uv that old, old toon come sneakin' back again.

You've guessed it? No, you hav n't; for it wuzn't that there song
Uv the home we'd been away from an' had hankered for so long,--
No, sir; it wuzn't "Home, Sweet Home," though it's always heard around
Sech neighborhoods in wich the home that is "sweet home...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene

Repression of War Experience

...nd gnaw your nails, and let your pipe out, 
And listen to the silence: on the ceiling 
There’s one big, dizzy moth that bumps and flutters; 
And in the breathless air outside the house
The garden waits for something that delays. 
There must be crowds of ghosts among the trees,— 
Not people killed in battle,—they’re in France,— 
But horrible shapes in shrouds—old men who died 
Slow, natural deaths,—old men with ugly souls,
Who wore their bodies out with nasty sins.

. . . . 
Y...Read more of this...
by Sassoon, Siegfried

The Army Mules

...blokes below, 
Over the railways and over the dumps, over the Hun and the Turk, 
You'll hear him mutter, "What ho, she bumps," when the Archies get to work. 
But not of him is the song I sing, though he follow the eagle's flight, 
And with shrapnel holes in his splintered wing comes home to his roost at night. 
He may silver his wings on the shining stars, he may look from the throne on high, 
He may follow the flight of the wheeling kite in the blue Egyptian sky, 
But he's ...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

The Gramaphone At Fond-Du-Lac

...to see an' to hear Ed's grammyfone make its dayboo.

Then Ed turned the crank, an' there on the bank they squatted like bumps on a log.
For acres around there wasn't a sound, not even the howl of a dog.
When out of the horn there sudden was born such a marvellous elegant tone;
An' then like a spell on that auddyence fell the voice of its first grammyfone.

"Bad medicine!" cried Old Tom, the One-eyed, an' made for to jump in the lake;
But no one gave heed to his little stamped...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

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