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Famous Snivelling Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Brooke, Rupert
...****, and Captain PRIDE with tanned
And martial face all grim, and fussy JOY,
Who had to catch a train, and LUST, poor, snivelling boy;
These bore the dear departed.
Behind them, broken-hearted,
Came GRIEF, so noisy a widow, that all said,
"Had he but wed
Her elder sister SORROW, in her stead!"
And by her, trying to soothe her all the time,
The fatherless children, COLOUR, TUNE, and RHYME
(The sweet lad RHYME), ran all-uncomprehending.
Then, at the way's sad ending,
R...Read more of this...



by Brooke, Rupert
...oarse, and Captain Pride with tanned
And martial face all grim, and fussy Joy
Who had to catch a train, and Lust, poor, snivelling boy;
These bore the dear departed. 
Behind them, broken-hearted, 
Came Grief, so noisy a widow, that all said,
“Had he but wed 
Her elder sister Sorrow, in her stead!”
And by her, trying to soothe her all the time, 
The fatherless children, Colour, Tune, and Rhyme
(The sweet lad Rhyme), ran all-uncomprehending. 
Then, at the way’s sad endi...Read more of this...

by O'Hara, Frank
...because he is
a man sitting out an indignity.

The mean moon is like a nasty
little lemon above the ubiquitous
snivelling fir trees and if there's

a swan within a radius of
twelve square miles let's
throttle it. We too are worried.

He is a man like us erect
in the cold dark night. Silence
handles his guitar as clumsily

as a wet pair of dungarees.
The grass if full of snakespit.
He alone is hot admist the stars.

If no one is r...Read more of this...

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