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Famous Huckleberry Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Moody, William Vaughn
...is the quaker-maid, 
The wild geranium holds its dew 
Long in the boulder's shade. 
Wax-red hangs the cup 
From the huckleberry boughs, 
In barberry bells the grey moths sup, 
Or where the choke-cherry lifts high up 
Sweet bowls for their carouse. 

Over the shelf of the sandy cove 
Beach-peas blossom late. 
By copse and cliff the swallows rove 
Each calling to his mate. 
Seaward the sea-gulls go, 
And the land-birds all are here; 
That green-gold flash was a ...Read more of this...



by Murray, Les
...it must be inexhaustible and complete
with turns where we ask Now why did the poet do that?

You can't pray a lie, said Huckleberry Finn;
you can't poe one either. It is the same mirror:
mobile, glancing, we call it poetry,

fixed centrally, we call it a religion,
and God is the poetry caught in any religion,
caught, not imprisoned. Caught as in a mirror

that he attracted, being in the world as poetry
is in the poem, a law against its closure.
There'll always be ...Read more of this...

by Whittier, John Greenleaf
...old gods; 
Where Pindus-born Arachthus took 
The guise of any grist-mill brok, 
And dread Olympus at his will 
Became a huckleberry hill. 

A careless boy that night he seemed; 
But at his desk he had the look 
And air of one who wisely schemed, 
And hostage from the future took 
In trainëd thought and lore of book. 
Large-brained, clear-eyed, of such as he 
Shall Freedom's young apostles be, 
Who, following in War's bloody trail, 
Shall every lingering wrong assail; ...Read more of this...

by Lindsay, Vachel
...Of patch-work dream, of wrath more red than lust,
Where long-haired feudist Hotspurs bite the dust...

This Huckleberry Finn is but the race,
America, still lovely in disgrace,
New childhood of the world, that blunders on
And wonders at the darkness and the dawn,
The poor damned human race, still unimpressed
With its damnation, all its gamin breast
Chorteling at dukes and kings with ****** Jim,
Then plotting for their fall, with jestings grim.

Behold a Republ...Read more of this...

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