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Famous Razzle Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sandburg, Carl
...summer-white dresses. Amid the cornet staccato and the tuba oompa, gigglers, God knows, gigglers daffy with life’s razzle dazzle.

Slow good-night melodies and Home Sweet Home. And the snare drummer bookkeeper in a hardware store nods hello to the daughter of a railroad conductor—a giggler, God knows, a giggler—and the summer-white dresses filter fanwise out of the public square.

The crushed strawberries of ice cream soda places, the night wind in cottonwood...Read more of this...



by Clark, Badger
...v'ry mile of twenty was a long discord,
  But the night is brimmin' music and its glory is complete
  When the eye is razzle-dazzled by the flip o' Shorty's feet!

    _Snappy for the dance, now, fill she up and shoots!_
    _(Don't he beat the devil's wife for jiggin' in 'is boots?)_
    _Shorty got throwed high and we laughed till he was raw,_
    _But tonight he's done forgot it prancin' "Turkey in the Straw."_

  Rainy dark or firelight, bacon rind or pie,
  Liv...Read more of this...

by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...ing my soul with rest, 
And I felt as I "scoffed" that liquid 
That life had a new-found zest. 

I have been on the razzle-dazzle 
Full many a time since then 
But I never could get the chemist 
To brew me that drink again. 
He says he's forgotten the notion -- 
'Twas only by chance it came -- 
He's tried me with various liquids 
But oh! they are not the same. 

We have sought, but we sought it vainly, 
That one lost drink divine; 
We have sampled his various bott...Read more of this...

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