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Famous In The Bag Poems by Famous Poets

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by Lanier, Sidney
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Divine Tranquillity!

Gray Pelican, poised where yon broad shallows shine,
Know'st thou, that finny foison all is mine
In the bag below thy beak -- yet thine, not less?
For God, of His most gracious friendliness,
Hath wrought that every soul, this loving morn,
Into all things may be new-corporate born,
And each live whole in all: I sail with thee,
Thy Pelican's self is mine; yea, silver Sea,
In this large moment all thy fishes, ripples, bights,
Pale in-shore greens and dista...Read more of this...



by Flynn, Nick
...I dreamt your suicide note
was scrawled in pencil on a brown paperbag,
& in the bag were six baby mice. The bag
opened into darkness,
smoldering
from the top down. The mice,
huddled at the bottom, scurried the bag
across a shorn field. I stood over it
& as the burning reached each carbon letter
of what you'd written
your voice released into the night
like a song, & the mice
grew wilder....Read more of this...

by Gregory, Rg
...o check - a female whisper or in drag
mosquitoes daren't treat such presence slackly
a wispy whoosh - the poor sods are in the bag

satan's emissaries (the devil's darning needles)
mischief makers - tell lies they stitch you lip to lip
they're elusive (haunting) as the best of riddles
forcing you to sense the eternal as a blip

illusion change - stuff timelessness is made of
beauty allure - life's compulsive invitations
what's wanted's lost - it's always on the move
the damse...Read more of this...

by Smart, Christopher
...es concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt.
For every family had one cat at least in the bag.
For the English Cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
For the dexterity of his defence is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and wag...Read more of this...

by Smart, Christopher
...s concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel 
from Egypt.
For every family had one cat at least in the bag.
For the English Cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
For the dexterity of his defense is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and wag...Read more of this...



by Smart, Christopher
...es concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt.
For every family had one cat at least in the bag.
For the English Cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his forepaws of any quadruped.
For the dexterity of his defence is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and wag...Read more of this...

by Smart, Christopher
...concerning the cats at the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt. 

For every family had one cat at least in the bag. 

For the English Cats are the best in Europe. 

For he is the cleanest in the use of his fore-paws of any quadrupede. 

For the dexterity of his defence is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly. 

For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature. 

For he is tenacious of his point. 

For he is a mixture of g...Read more of this...

by Lawson, Henry
...Out Back. 

In stifling noons when his back was wrung 
by its load, and the air seemed dead, 
And the water warmed in the bag that hung to his aching arm like lead, 
Or in times of flood, when plains were seas, 
and the scrubs were cold and black, 
He ploughed in mud to his trembling knees, and paid for his sins Out Back. 

He blamed himself in the year `Too Late' -- 
in the heaviest hours of life -- 
'Twas little he dreamed that a shearing-mate had care of his home ...Read more of this...

by Browning, Robert
...All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee:
All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem:
In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea:
Breath and bloom, shade and shine, wonder, wealth, and--how far above them--
Truth, that's brighter than gem,
Trust, that's purer than pearl,--
Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe--all were for me
In...Read more of this...

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