Famous Lollies Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Bridge Over The Aire Book 5

...eels spinning in the air, going nowhere.





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In Mr Murray’s papershop were boxes of string on shelves,

Penny ice lollies ;you sucked until the colour went, leaving

You with ice castles on sticks. Every week I bought two

Threepenny Sexton Blake mysteries, sixty-four action packed

Pages, full of rascally Lascars and pig-tailed Chinese devils.

There were twopenny packets of stamps for my Royal Mail Album

Stately portraits of Sun Yat Sen, Gold Coast clippers, salt

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


Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth

...give up gobstoppers,
From respect to me choppers,
And to buy something else with me shillin’.

When I think of the lollies I licked
And the liquorice allsorts I picked,
Sherbet dabs, big and little,
All that hard peanut brittle,
My conscience gets horribly pricked.

My mother, she told me no end,
‘If you got a tooth, you got a friend.’
I was young then, and careless,
My toothbrush was hairless,
I never had much time to spend.

Oh I showed them the toothpaste ...Read more of this...
by Ayres, Pam

The Munich Mannequins

...r smiles

These mannequins lean tonight
In Munich, morgue between Paris and Rome,

Naked and bald in their furs,
Orange lollies on silver sticks,

Intolerable, without mind.
The snow drops its pieces of darkness,

Nobody's about. In the hotels
Hands will be opening doors and setting

Down shoes for a polish of carbon
Into which broad toes will go tomorrow.

O the domesticity of these windows,
The baby lace, the green-leaved confectionery,

The thick Germans slumbering in thei...Read more of this...
by Plath, Sylvia

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