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Famous Dab Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Browning, Robert
...e whole, then execute the parts---
Fancy the fabric
Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz,
Ere mortar dab brick!

(Here's the town-gate reached: there's the market-place
Gaping before us.)
Yea, this in him was the peculiar grace
(Hearten our chorus!)
That before living he'd learn how to live---
No end to learning:
Earn the means first---God surely will contrive
Use for our earning.
Others mistrust and say, ``But time escapes:
``Live now or never!''
H...Read more of this...



by Whitman, Walt
...adicting another,
From the storm, the long calm, the darkness, the swell; 
Musing, pondering, a breath, a briny tear, a dab of liquid or soil; 
Up just as much out of fathomless workings fermented and thrown; 
A limp blossom or two, torn, just as much over waves floating, drifted at random; 
Just as much for us that sobbing dirge of Nature;
Just as much, whence we come, that blare of the cloud-trumpets; 
We, capricious, brought hither, we know not whence, spread out before yo...Read more of this...

by Ammons, A R
...mething
was as green as), fish **** (the generality), trout

****, rainbow trout **** (for the nice), mullet ****,
sand dab ****, casual sloth ****, elephant ****
(awesome as process or payload), wildebeest ****,

horse **** (a favorite), caterpillar **** (so many dark
kinds, neatly pelleted as mint seed), baby rhinoceros
****, splashy jaybird ****, mockingbird ****

(dive-bombed with the aim of song), robin **** that
oozes white down lawnchairs or down roots under roosts,
ch...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...iew them from the top. 

The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bed-room; 
I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair—I note where the pistol has
 fallen.

The blab of the pave, the tires of carts, sluff of boot-soles, talk of the
 promenaders; 
The heavy omnibus, the driver with his interrogating thumb, the clank of the
 shod horses on the granite floor; 
The snow-sleighs, the clinking, shouted jokes, pelts of snowballs; 
The hurrahs for popular fa...Read more of this...

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