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Famous Mag Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sandburg, Carl
...I WISH to God I never saw you, Mag.
I wish you never quit your job and came along with me.
I wish we never bought a license and a white dress
For you to get married in the day we ran off to a minister
And told him we would love each other and take care of
each other
Always and always long as the sun and the rain lasts anywhere.
Yes, I'm wishing now you lived somewhere away fro...Read more of this...



by Brautigan, Richard
...open it, and on the wall there was a roll of toilet paper,

so old it looked like a relative, perhaps a cousin, to the Mag-

na Carta.

 We lifted up the lid of the toilet and dropped the garbage

down into the darkness. This went on for weeks and weeks

until it became very funny to lift the lid of the toilet and in-

stead of seeing darkness below or maybe the murky abstract

outline of garbage, we saw bright, definite and lusty garbage

heaped up almost to the top...Read more of this...

by Masters, Edgar Lee
...ridge toiling for children and wife--
All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill.

Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie, and Edith,
The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one?--
All, all, are sleeping on the hill.

One died in shameful child-birth,
One of a thwarted love,
One at the hands of a brute in a brothel,
One of a broken pride, in a search for a heart's desire,
One after life in faraway London and Paris
Was brought to her lit...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...llar jag.
His poke is full of gold-dust and his heart is full of sin,
 And he's dancing with a girl called Muckluck Mag.
She's as light as any fairy; she's as pretty as a peach;
 She's mistress of the witchcraft to beguile;
There's sunshine in her manner, there is music in her speech,
 And there's concentrated honey in her smile.

Oh, the fever of the dance-hall and the glitter and the shine,
 The beauty, and the jewels, and the whirl,
The madness of the music, th...Read more of this...

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