Famous Dowdy Poems by Famous Poets

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

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confession

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mountains knock me sideways
a moor chills my bones
a field of wheat exults me
i'm awed by ancient stones

but lines of dowdy shop-fronts
mean unpolished streets
sever the green man in me
coddle my heart's retreats

my marrow's grey as asphalt
my brain's a shirley tram
the royal pier dreams fish for me
what southampton was - i am

i'm an ecological liar
a trickster with mother earth
dreaming grass may ravel me -
bricks nourish my birth...Read more of this...
by Gluck, Louise


Route Marchin

...ad a-sliding past,
 An' every bloomin' campin'-ground exactly like the last;
 While the Big Drum says,
 With 'is "rowdy-dowdy-dow!" --
 "Kiko kissywarsti don't you hamsher argy jow?"*

* Why don't you get on?

Oh, there's them Injian temples to admire when you see,
There's the peacock round the corner an' the monkey up the tree,
An' there's that rummy silver grass a-wavin' in the wind,
An' the old Grand Trunk a-trailin' like a rifle-sling be'ind.
 While it's best foot first, ...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard

Sonnet XXXI: Methinks I See

...re imprest 
And every drudge doth dull our satiate ear, 
Think'st thou my love shall in those rags be drest 
That every dowdy, every trull, doth wear? 
Up to my pitch no common judgement flies; 
I scorn all earthly dung-bred scarabies....Read more of this...
by Drayton, Michael

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