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Famous Pestle Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Browning, Robert
...e all-- 
Or I might add, Judea's gum-tragacanth 
Scales off in purer flakes, shines clearer-grained, 
Cracks 'twixt the pestle and the porphyry, 
In fine exceeds our produce. Scalp-disease 
Confounds me, crossing so with leprosy-- 
Thou hadst admired one sort I gained at Zoar-- 
But zeal outruns discretion. Here I end. 

Yet stay: my Syrian blinketh gratefully, 
Protesteth his devotion is my price-- 
Suppose I write what harms not, though he steal? 
I half resolve...Read more of this...



by Yeats, William Butler
...me - no, not here,
For I am not so bold
To hope a thing so dear
Now I am growing old,
But when, if the tale's true,
The Pestle of the moon
That pounds up all anew
Brings me to birth again --
To find what once I had
And know what once I have known,
Until I am driven mad,
Sleep driven from my bed.
By tenderness and care.
pity, an aching head,
Gnashing of teeth, despair;
And all because of some one
perverse creature of chance,
And live like Solomon
That Sheba led a dance...Read more of this...

by Brautigan, Richard
...tone-ground wheat and

kale. He bought the wheat by the hundred-pound sack and

ground it himself with a mortar and pestle. He grew the kale

in front of his shack and tended the kale as if it were prize

winning orchids.

 During all the time that was his life, Mr. Hayman never

had a cup of coffee, a smoke, a drink or a woman and thought

he'd be a fool if he did.

 In the winter a few trout would go up Hayman Creek, but

by early summer the creek was al...Read more of this...

by Sexton, Anne
...Sing me a thrush, bone. 
Sing me a nest of cup and pestle. 
Sing me a sweetbread fr an old grandfather. 
Sing me a foot and a doorknob, for you are my love. 
Oh sing, bone bag man, sing. 
Your head is what I remember that Augusty 
you were in love with another woman but 
taht didn't matter. I was the gury of your 
bones, your fingers long and nubby, your 
forehead a beacon, bare as marble...Read more of this...

by Amichai, Yehuda
...not a stuck spoon.

I'm not flat and sly
Like a spatula creeping up from below.
At most I am a heavy and clumsy pestle
Mashing good and bad together
For a little taste
And a little fragrance.

Arrows do not direct me. I conduct
My business carefully and quietly
Like a long will that began to be written
The moment I was born.

s Now I stand at the side of the street
Weary, leaning on a parking meter.
I can stand here for nothing, free.

I'm not a ca...Read more of this...



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