Get Your Premium Membership

Famous Speedboat Poems by Famous Poets

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

See also:

by Sexton, Anne
...ts of marriage, stopped in places. 
Side by side at the rail toward Nassau now; 
here, with the winner's cup at the speedboat races, 
here, in tails at the Cotillion, you take a bow,


here, by our kennel of dogs with their pink eyes, 
running like show-bred pigs in their chain-link pen; 
here, at the horseshow where my sister wins a prize; 
Now I fold you down, my drunkard, my navigator, 
my first lost keeper, to love or look at later.


I hold a five-year diary that...Read more of this...



by Betjeman, John
...n-Martin - and does she go? She flies!
Pedestrians and dogs and cats, we mark them down for slaughter.
I also own a speedboat which has never touched the water.

She's built of fibre-glass, of course. I call her 'Mandy Jane'
After a bird I used to know - No soda, please, just plain -
And how did I acquire her? Well, to tell you about that
And to put you in the picture, I must wear my other hat.

I do some mild developing. The sort of place I need
Is a quie...Read more of this...

Dont forget to view our wonderful member Speedboat poems.


Book: Reflection on the Important Things