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Famous Rhubarb Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Tebb, Barry
...ss

But none is like your’s,

No voice, no eyes,

No smile at all

Like your’s.





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From Kirkstall Lock

The rhubarb crop

To Knostrop’s forcing sheds

The roots ploughed up

Arranged in beds

Of perfect darkness

Where the buds burst

With a pip, rich pink

Stalks and yellow leaves

Hand-picked by

Candle-light to

Keep the colour right

So every night the

Rhubarb train

Could go from Leeds

To Covent Garden.





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The smell of Saturday morning

Is the s...Read more of this...



by Berryman, John
...low, to like.

One submachine-gun cleared the Durga Temple.

It is very dark here in this groping forth

 Gulp rhubarb for a guilty heart,
rhubarb for a free, if the world's sway
waives customs anywhere that far

Look on, without pure dismay.
Unable to account for itself.

The slave-girl folded her fan & turned on my air-condtioner.
The lemonade-machine made lemonade.
I made love, lolled,
my roundel lowered. I ache less. I purr.
—Mr Bone...Read more of this...

by Sidney, Sir Philip
...doth tire, 
Than did on him who first stole down the fire, 
While Love on me doth all his quiver spend, 

But with your rhubarb words you must contend, 
To grieve me worse, in saying that desire 
Doth plunge my well-form'd soul even in the mire 
Of sinful thoughts, which do in ruin end? 

If that be sin which doth the manners frame, 
Well stayed with truth in word and faith of deed, 
Ready of wit and fearing nought but shame: 

If that be sin which in fix'd hearts doth breed ...Read more of this...

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