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Famous Gibbons Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...and those who got

Him out went on a whisky

Spree before they could drag

His body free.





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Standard I’s Miss Gibbons was

Like a crinkled leaf in her

Sere brown dress packed with

Cracked parched skin and thin

Ringless fingers. “She’s wearing

Falsies”, the boys whispered

To the girls as she fiddled

Ceaselessly. She had us learn

The Psalms by heart a whole

Hour every day, it took me a 

Whole half century to find

They were poems like mine.





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Auntie ...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry



...(The 110th anniversary of the completion of the "Decline and Fall" at the same hour and place) 

 A spirit seems to pass, 
 Formal in pose, but grave and grand withal: 
 He contemplates a volume stout and tall, 
And far lamps fleck him through the thin acacias. 

 Anon the book is closed, 
 With "It is finished!" And at the alley's end 
 He turns, and soon...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas
...awn
in the morning-glow of the clouds;
The thousand miles to Chiang-ling
we sailed in a single day.
On either shore the gibbons' chatter
sounded without pause
While my light boat skimmed past
ten thousand sombre crags....Read more of this...
by Po, Li
...high fiddle-string’s single clamor.

“And the muchacho sat there all day throwing stones
To keep the pigs away,” wrote Gibbons to the Tribune.

Somewhere in Chihuahua or Colorado
Is a leather bag of poems and short stories....Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

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