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Famous Parsnips Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Berryman, John
...ous. He'd flee
but only Heaven hangs over him foul.
At the crossways, downtown,

he dreams the folks are buying parsnips & suds
and paying rent to foes. He slipt & fell.
It's golden here in the snow.
A mild crack: a far rifle. Bogart's duds
truck back to Wardrobe. Fancy the brain from hell
held out so long. Let go....Read more of this...



by Whitman, Walt
...g the ruts of the turnpike—along the dry gulch and rivulet bed; 
Weeding my onion-patch, or hoeing rows of carrots and parsnips—crossing
 savannas—trailing in forests; 
Prospecting—gold-digging—girdling the trees of a new purchase; 
Scorch’d ankle-deep by the hot sand—hauling my boat down the shallow
 river; 
Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead—where the buck turns
 furiously at the hunter;
Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock—where...Read more of this...

by Ransom, John Crowe
...d known your touch,
And tied our separate forces first together,
Were ten poor idiot fingers not worth much,
Ten frozen parsnips hanging in the weather....Read more of this...

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