Famous Napped Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Dream Song 122: He published his girls bottom in staid pages

...thronged & lapped
at his delicious stone.
Cats to a distance kept-”one of their own-”
having in mind that down he lay & napped 
in the realm of whiskers & fogs....Read more of this...
by Berryman, John


Flowering Eucalypt In Autumn

...by crimson blossom.
Bees still at work up there tack
around their exploded furry likeness

and the lawn underneath's a napped rug
of eyelash drift, of blooms flared
like a sneeze in a redhaired nostril,

minute urns, pinch-sized rockets
knocked down by winds, by night-creaking
fig-squirting bats, or the daily

parrot gang with green pocketknife wings.
Bristling food tough delicate
raucous life, each flower comes

as a spray in its own turned vase,
a taut starbust, honeyed mo...Read more of this...
by Murray, Les

Napped half the day

...Napped half the day;
no one 
punished me!...Read more of this...
by Issa, Kobayashi

The Waters Chant

...nd treeless one now in its place. 
The one house I loved the most 
simply missing in a row of houses, 
the park where I napped on summer days 
fenced and locked, the great shop 
where we forged, a plane of rubble, 
the old hurt faces turned away. 
My brother was with me, thickened 
by the years, but still my brother, 
and when we embraced I felt the rough 
cheek and his hand upon my back tapping 
as though to tell me, I know! I know! 
brother, I know! 
 Here in California 
a ...Read more of this...
by Levine, Philip

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