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Famous Shovelled Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...ayer 
But the wound of fear gaped wide and raw; 
He dared not touch the thing with his hands 
So he fetched a spade and shovelled it 
And dumped the load of heavy fur 
In the spidery cupboard under the stair 
Where it's been for years, and though it died 
It's grown in that cupboard and its hot low purr 
Grows slowly louder year by year: 
There'll not be a corner for the boy to hide 
When the cupboard swells and all sides split 
And the huge black cat pads out of it....Read more of this...
by Scannell, Vernon



...Where's the lamp that Hero lit
 Once to call Leander home?
Equal Time hath shovelled it
 'Neath the wrack of Greece and Rome.
Neither wait we any more
That worn sail which Argo bore.

Dust and dust of ashes close
 All the Vestal Virgin's care;
And the oldest altar shows
 But an older darkness there.
Age-encamped Oblivion
Tenteth every light that shone.

Yet shall we, for Suns that die,
 Wall our wanderings from desire?
Or, because ...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard
...ht soften a fiend from hell. 
And we thought of the hint that the swagman gave 
When he went to the Great Unseen -- 
We shovelled the skeleton out of the grave 
To see what his hint might mean. 

We dug where the cross and the grave posts were, 
We shovelled away the mould, 
When sudden a vein of quartz lay bare 
All gleaming with yellow gold. 
'Twas a reef with never a fault nor baulk 
That ran from the range's crest, 
And the richest mine on the Eaglehawk 
Is known as "The ...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

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