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Famous Bussed Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Thomas, Dylan
...robin, all but one of his fires out. Men and
women wading or scooping back from chapel, with taproom noses and wind-bussed cheeks, all albinos, huddles
their stiff black jarring feathers against the irreligious snow. Mistletoe hung from the gas brackets in all
the front parlors; there was sherry and walnuts and bottled beer and crackers by the dessertspoons; and cats in
their fur-abouts watched the fires; and the high-heaped fire spat, all ready for the chestnuts and ...Read more of this...



by Jarrell, Randall
...d for a man to say. 
Their eyes, on their Father, were monumental marble. 
Then they smiled like two old women, bussed each other, 
Said, "Gossip, gossip"; and, lapped in each other's looks, 
Mirror for Mirror, drank a cup of tea. 

Of cambric tea. But there is a reality 
Under the good silk of the good sisters' 
Good ball gowns. She knew... Hard-breasted, naked-eyed, 
She pushed her silk feet into glass, and rose within 
A gown of imaginary ga...Read more of this...

by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...d, 
you did but come as goblins in the night, 
Nor in the furrow broke the ploughman's head, 
Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking-maid, 
Nor robbed the farmer of his bowl of cream: 
But let your Prince (our royal word upon it, 
He comes back safe) ride with us to our lines, 
And speak with Arac: Arac's word is thrice 
As ours with Ida: something may be done-- 
I know not what--and ours shall see us friends. 
You, likewise, our late guests, if so you will, 
Follow...Read more of this...

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