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Famous Lapels Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Brodsky, Joseph
...spells.
Still, you can tell yourself in the john by the spat-at mirror,
slamming the flush and emerging with clean lapels.
Only the liquid furniture cradles the dwindling figure.
Man shouldn't grow in size once he's been portrayed.
Look: what's been left behind is about as meager
as what remains ahead. Hence the horizon's blade....Read more of this...



by Sandburg, Carl
...n stood together
And swore by the retribution of steel.

It was all accidental.
He lived flecking lint off coat lapels
Of men he talked with.
He kissed the miners’ babies
And wrote a Denver paper
Of picket silhouettes on a mountain line.

He had no mother but Mother Jones
Crying from a jail window of Trinidad:
“All I want is room enough to stand
And shake my fist at the enemies of the human race.”

Named by a grand jury as a murderer
He went to Chihuahua, ...Read more of this...

by Brodsky, Joseph
...spells.
Still you can tell yourself in the john by the spat-at mirror 
slamming the flush and emerging with clean lapels.
Only the liquid furniture cradles the dwindling figure.
Man shouldn't grow in size once he's been portrayed.
Look: what's been left behind is about as meager
as what remains ahead. Hence the horizon's blade....Read more of this...

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