Famous Diner Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Diner poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous diner poems. These examples illustrate what a famous diner poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...g of manerez mere
This burne now schal vus bryng,
I hope that may hym here
Schal lerne of luf-talkyng."
Bi that the diner watz done and the dere vp
Hit watz neygh at the niyyght neyghed the tyme.
Chaplaynez to the chapeles chosen the gate,
Rungen ful rychely, ryyght as thay schulden,
To the hersum euensong of the hyyghe tyde.
The lorde loutes therto, and the lady als,
Into a cumly closet coyntly ho entrez.
Gawan glydez ful gay and gos theder sone;
The lorde laches...Read more of this...
by
Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...t hero of these poems, cocksman and Adonis of Denver—joy to the memory of his innumerable lays of girls in empty lots & diner backyards, moviehouses’ rickety rows, on mountaintops in caves or with gaunt waitresses in familiar roadside lonely petticoat upliftings & especially secret gas-station solipsisms of johns, & hometown alleys too,
who faded out in vast sordid movies, were shifted in dreams, woke on a sudden Manhattan, and picked themselves up out of basements hung-over...Read more of this...
by
Ginsberg, Allen
...done,
Deiphebus, of his owene curtasye,
Com hir to preye, in his propre persone,
To holde him on the morwe companye
At diner, which she nolde not denye,
But goodly gan to his preyere obeye.
He thonked hir, and wente up-on his weye.
Whanne this was doon, this Pandare up a-noon,
To telle in short, and forth gan for to wende
To Troilus, as stille as any stoon;
And al this thing he tolde him, word and ende;
And how that he Deiphebus gan to blende;
And seyde him, 'Now is tyme,...Read more of this...
by
Chaucer, Geoffrey
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