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Famous Mopping Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Murray, Les
...not messages, but sorrow,
hard as the earth, sheer, present as the sea -
and when he stops, he simply walks between us
mopping his face with the dignity of one
man who has wept, and now has finished weeping.

Evading believers, he hurries off down Pitt Street....Read more of this...



by Justice, Donald
...n is that any alteration at all would spoil it.
However fast he should come hurrying now
Over this vast greensward, mopping his brow
Clear of the sweat of the fine Renaissance morning, it would be too late:
The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait,
A revenge not only necessary but right and clever --
Simply to leave him out of the scene forever....Read more of this...

by Rossetti, Christina
...wards her hobbling,
Flying, running, leaping,
Puffing and blowing,
Chuckling, clapping, crowing,
Clucking and gobbling,
Mopping and mowing,
Full of airs and graces,
Pulling wry faces,
Demure grimaces,
Cat-like and rat-like,
Ratel and wombat-like,
Snail-paced in a hurry,
Parrot-voiced and whistler,
Helter-skelter, hurry-skurry,
Chattering like magpies,
Fluttering like pigeons,
Gliding like fishes, --
Hugged her and kissed her;
Squeezed and caressed her;
Stretched up their dish...Read more of this...

by O'Hara, Frank
...e still on the dock 
the smoke hasn't cleared in The Narrows 
At noon I sit in Jim's Place waiting for George
Who is mopping the stage up 
While two girls cry in the last row.

I think they got laid last night.
But who didn't? it was a spring night.
Probably George did too.

And now the ship has gone
beyond come sheets windows streets telephones and noises:
to where I cannot go 
not even a long distance swimmer like myself....Read more of this...

by Frost, Robert
...zed rat. 
That was the last I saw or heard of him. 
I cleaned the rack and drove out to cool off. 
As I sat mopping hayseed from my neck, 
And sort of waiting to be asked about it, 
One of the boys sings out, 'Where's the old man?' 
'I left him in the barn under the hay. 
If ye want him, ye can go and dig him out.' 
They realized from the way I swobbed my neck 
More than was needed something must be up. 
They headed for the barn; I stayed where I was.<...Read more of this...



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