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Famous Chives Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sexton, Anne
...t from which the coal has poured,


Somebody who should have been born
is gone. 

the grass as bristly and stout as chives,
and me wondering when the ground would break, 
and me wondering how anything fragile survives; 

up in Pennsylvania, I met a little man,
not Rumpelstiltskin, at all, at all... 
he took the fullness that love began. 

Returning north, even the sky grew thin
like a high window looking nowhere.
The road was as flat as a sheet of tin....Read more of this...



by Herrick, Robert
...s
And offers incense nights and days,
The lady of the lobster is,
Whose foot-pace he doth stroke and kiss,
And, humbly, chives of saffron brings
For his most cheerful offerings.
When, after these, he's paid his vows,
He lowly to the altar bows;
And then he dons the silk-worm's shed,
Like a Turk's turban on his head,
And reverently departeth thence,
Hid in a cloud of frankincense;
And by the glow-worm's light well guided,
Goes to the Feast that's now provided....Read more of this...

by Nesbitt, Kenn
...alads, peas,
asparagus, and foods like these,
and with each leaf and lima bean
his skin became a bit more green.
On chives and chard he loved to chew,
and Brussels sprouts and peppers too,
until he ate that fateful bean
that turned his skin completely green.
He turned all green, and stayed that way,
and now he frightens folks away.
Poor Frankenstein, his tale is sad,
but things need not have been so bad.
It’s fair to say, if only he
had eaten much less celery,
a...Read more of this...

by Fu, Du
...Ask I come what direction Question answer be not finish Boys girls spread out alcohol Night rain cut spring chives New cooked rice mix golden millet Host say meet hard One cup repeat ten cups Ten cups also not drunk Feel your friendship long Tomorrow separate mountain mountain Human affairs two boundless and indistinct  We've lived our lives and have not seen each other, We've been just like the s...Read more of this...

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