Famous Rococo Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Pickthorn Manor

...fly, noticed a golden stamp Filling 
the middle space.
Two letters half rubbed out were there, and round
About them gay rococo flowers wound
And tossed a spray of roses to the clamp.

XIII
The Lady Eunice puzzled over these. "G. D." 
the young man gravely said. "My name
Is Gervase Deane. Your servant, if you please." "Oh, 
Sir, indeed I know you, for your fame
For exploits in the field has reached my ears. I did not know 
you wounded and returned."
"But just come back, Madam....Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy


The Quality Of Sprawl

...
Sprawl is doing your farm work by aeroplane, roughly,
or driving a hitchhiker that extra hundred miles home.
It is the rococo of being your own still centre.
It is never lighting cigars with ten dollar notes:
that's idiot ostentation and murder of starving people.
Nor can it be bought with the ash of million dollar deeds. 

Sprawl lengthens the legs; it trains greyhounds on liver and beer.
Sprawl almost never says, Why not?, with palms comically raised
nor can it be dressed ...Read more of this...
by Murray, Les

What Are Big Girls Made Of?

...rottoes, mountains, frigates in full 
sail, balloons, baboons, the fancy 
of a hairdresser turned loose. 
The hats were rococo wedding cakes 
that would dim the Las Vegas strip. 
Here is a woman forced into shape 
rigid exoskeleton torturing flesh: 
a woman made of pain. 

How superior we are now: see the modern woman 
thin as a blade of scissors. 
She runs on a treadmill every morning, 
fits herself into machines of weights 
and pulleys to heave and grunt, 
an image in her m...Read more of this...
by Piercy, Marge

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