Famous Dumpty Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Dumpty poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous dumpty poems. These examples illustrate what a famous dumpty poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;All the King's horses, and all the King's menCannot put Humpty Dumpty together again....Read more of this...
by
Goose, Mother
...Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty
How he fell with a roll and a rumble
And curled up like Lord Olofa Crumple
By the butt of the Magazine Wall,
(Chorus) Of the Magazine Wall,
Hump, helmet and all?
He was one time our King of the Castle
Now he's kicked about like a rotten old parsnip.
And from Green street he'll be sent by order of His Worship
To the penal jail of Mountjoy
(Chorus) ...Read more of this...
by
Joyce, James
...till something comes.
Clumsy as I am,
I do it.
For I am like them -
both saved and lost,
tumbling downward like Humpty Dumpty
off the alphabet.
Each morning I push them off my bed
and when they get in the salad
rolling in it like a dog,
I pick each one out
just the way my daughter
picks out the anchoives.
In May they dance on the jonquils,
wearing out their toes,
laughing like fish.
In November, the dread month,
they suck the childhood out of the berries
and turn them sour ...Read more of this...
by
Sexton, Anne
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