Famous Knobble Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Nicholas Nye

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Seem to be smiling at me, he would, 
From his bush in the corner, of may,-- 
Bony and ownerless, widowed and worn, 
Knobble-kneed, lonely and gray; 
And over the grass would seem to pass 
'Neath the deep dark blue of the sky, 
Something much better than words between me 
And Nicholas Nye. 

But dusk would come in the apple boughs, 
The green of the glow-worm shine, 
The birds in nest would crouch to rest, 
And home I'd trudge to mine; 
And there, in the moonlight, dark wi...Read more of this...
by de la Mare, Walter


The Dream Of Wearing Shorts Forever

...and underground more than once,
it is time perhaps to cherish the culture of shorts, 

to moderate grim vigour
with the knobble of bare knees,
to cool bareknuckle feet in inland water,
slapping flies with a book on solar wind
or a patient bare hand, beneath the cadjiput trees, 

to be walking meditatively
among green timber, through the grassy forest
towards a calm sea
and looking across to more of that great island
and the further tropics....Read more of this...
by Murray, Les

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