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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A Grammarians Funeral

...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!''
He said, ...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


Elemental Drifts

...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 Whitman, Walt

Shit List; Or Omnium-gatherum Of Diversity Into Unity

...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 Ammons, A R

Song of Myself

...ly view 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 favori...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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