Famous Paddock Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Bridge Over The Aire Book 6

...r pillar-box red and you spooled out

The thread as only you could and it dipped

And rose like a dancer.





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The paddock by the tusky sheds was cropped

And polished by the horses’ hooves, their

Nostrils flared and they bared their teeth

As we passed and tossed their manes as we

Shied from the rusty fence where peg-legged

We jumped the cracks and pulled away each

Dandelion head, “Pee-the-bed! Pee-the bed!”

Rubbing the yellow dust into each other’s

Cheeks and chi...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry


In the Stable

...g the women a fright: 
Came to the station one morning (and why they did this no one knows) 
Took a brood mare from the paddock--wanting some fun, I suppose -- 
Fastened a bucket beneath her, hung by a strap around her flank, 
Then turned her loose in the timber back of the seven-mile tank. 

Go? She went mad! She went tearing and screaming with fear through the trees, 
While the curst bucket beneath her was banging her flanks and her knees. 
Bucking and racing and screaming ...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

Marriage

...er
in that Persian miniature of emerald mines,
raw silk -- ivory white, snow white,
oyster white and six others --
that paddock full of leopards and giraffes --
long lemonyellow bodies
sown with trapezoids of blue.
Alive with words,
vibrating like a cymbal
touched before it has been struck,
he has prophesied correctly --
the industrious waterfall,
"the speedy stream
which violently bears all before it,
at one time silent as the air
and now as powerful as the wind."
"Treading ...Read more of this...
by Moore, Marianne

Mount Bukaroo

...ned; 
Weariness we never knew, 
Even when the shadows lengthened 
Round the base of Bukaroo. 

There for days below the paddock 
How the wilderness would yield 
To the spade, and pick, and mattock, 
While we toiled to win the field. 
Bronzed hands we used to sully 
Till they were of darkest hue, 
`Burning off' down in the gully 
At the back of Bukaroo. 

When we came the baby brother 
Left in haste his broken toys, 
Shouted to the busy mother: 
`Here is dadda and the boys!' 
...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

The Cambaroora Star

...the same old loves and hates, 
And we understood each other -- Charlie Brown and I were mates. 
So we worked a little `paddock' on a place they called the `Bar', 
And we sank a shaft together, and at night we worked the STAR. 

Charlie thought and did his writing when his work was done at night, 
And the missus used to `set' it near as quick as he could write. 
Well, I didn't shirk my promise, and I helped the thing, I guess, 
For at night I worked the lever of the crazy pri...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry


The Earth-Child in the Grass

...In the very early morning
Long before Dawn time
I lay down in the paddock
And listened to the cold song of the grass.
Between my fingers the green blades,
And the green blades pressed against my body.
"Who is she leaning so heavily upon me?"
Sang the grass.
"Why does she weep on my bosom,
Mingling her tears with the tears of my mystic lover?
Foolish little earth-child!
It is not yet time.
One day I shall open my bosom
And ...Read more of this...
by Mansfield, Katherine

the good soldier

...his hand on the ground
he'll feel it beating but now
he can't remember home
though he knows the words well enough
back paddock Steve's paddock the yard
it's just words but now the imam calls
and winds a veil around his senses
and sometimes he thinks he'll never 
get back to where he belonged...Read more of this...
by Mansell, Chris

When the Children Come Home

...one and no neighbours are near; 
But she says to herself, when she's like to despond, 
That the boys are at work in the paddock beyond. 

Ah, none of her children need follow the plough, 
And some have grown rich in the city ere now; 
Yet she says: `They might come when the shearing is done, 
And I'll keep the ould place if it's only for one.'...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

When the Children Come Home

...one and no neighbours are near; 
But she says to herself, when she's like to despond, 
That the boys are at work in the paddock beyond. 

Ah, none of her children need follow the plough, 
And some have grown rich in the city ere now; 
Yet she says: `They might come when the shearing is done, 
And I'll keep the ould place if it's only for one.'...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

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