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Famous Picnics Poems by Famous Poets

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...d and blackout, Madam white face,
take me back to that red mouth, that July 21st place.



6. ANGEL OF BEACH HOUSES AND PICNICS

Angel of beach houses and picnics, do you know solitaire?
Fifty-two reds and blacks and only myslef to blame.
My blood buzzes like a hornet's nest. I sit in a kitchen chair
at a table set for one. The silverware is the same
and the glass and the sugar bowl. I hear my lungs fill and expel
as in an operation. But I have no one left to tell.

Once I wa...Read more of this...
by Sexton, Anne



...COUNT these reminiscences like money.
The Greeks had their picnics under another name.
The Romans wore glad rags and told their neighbors, “What of it?”
The Carlovingians hauling logs on carts, they too
Stuck their noses in the air and stuck their thumbs to their noses
And tasted life as a symphonic dream of fresh eggs broken over a frying pan left by an uncle who killed men with spears and short swords.
Count these...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl
...ng no word.

Dry, ripe with pain, busy with loss, let's guess.
Gone. Gone them wine-meetings, gone green grasses
of the picnics of rising youth.
Gone all slowly. Stately, not as the tongue
worries the loose tooth, wits as strong as young,
only the albino body failing.

Where the smother clusters pinpoint insights clear.
The tennis is over. The last words are here?
What, in the world, will they be?
White is the hue of death & victory,
all the old generosities dismissed,
while ...Read more of this...
by Berryman, John
...gain),
 That smell of the wattle round Lichtenberg,
 Riding in, in the rain!


 And I saw Sydney the same as ever,
 The picnics and brass-bands;
 And my little homestead on Hunter River
 And my new vines joining hands.
 It all came over me in one act
 Quick as a shot through the brain--
 With the smell of the wattle round Lichtenberg,
 Riding in, in the rain.


 I have forgotten a hundred fights,
 But one I shall not forget--
 With the raindrops bunging up my sights
 And my e...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard
...ocomotive, billiard-rooms and private bars -- 
Spicy parties at the cafe -- long cab-drives beneath the stars; 
Private picnics down the Harbour -- shady campings-out, you know -- 
No one would have dreamed 'twas Peter -- 
no one would have thought 'twas Joe! 
Free-and-easies in their `diggings', when the funds began to fail, 
Bosom chums, cigars, tobacco, and a case of English ale -- 
Gloriously drunk and happy, till they heard the roosters crow -- 
And the landlady and neig...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry



...feel the fillin' joy
That's sure to come this time o' year to every little boy;
For, every June, the Sunday-schools at picnics may be seen,
Where "fields beyont the swellin' floods stand dressed in livin' green";
Where little girls are skeered to death with spiders, bugs, and ants,
An' little boys get grass-stains on their go-to meetin' pants.
It's June ag'in, an' with it all what happiness is mine -
There's goin' to be a picnic, an' I'm goin' to jine!

One year I jined the ...Read more of this...
by Field, Eugene
...over my countenance; 
Upon a door-step—upon the horse-block of hard wood outside; 
Upon the race-course, or enjoying picnics or jigs, or a good game of base-ball;
At he-festivals, with blackguard jibes, ironical license, bull-dances, drinking,
 laughter; 
At the cider-mill, tasting the sweets of the brown mash, sucking the juice
 through a straw; 
At apple-peelings, wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find; 
At musters, beach-parties, friendly bees, huskings, hous...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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