Famous Thrummed Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Thrummed poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous thrummed poems. These examples illustrate what a famous thrummed poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Wanting to get you alone
On a slow boat to China
Get you and keep you
In my arms evermoreAuntie Nellie’s hands
Thrummed the tunes
On the black and white
Upright, sheet music
From Banks in County Arcade
Gleaming in Burmantofts
Faience tiles, marble and onyx.
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May blossoms hang
In Mill Hill churchyard
Over the ultramarine
Signboard; in Trinity Church
I share God with no-one
Stained glass
Colours the silence.
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Margaret, Nancy and I
Had ...Read more of this...
by
Tebb, Barry
...d I am King Arthur's fool.
Swine, say ye? swine, goats, asses, rams and geese
Trooped round a Paynim harper once, who thrummed
On such a wire as musically as thou
Some such fine song--but never a king's fool.'
And Tristram, `Then were swine, goats, asses, geese
The wiser fools, seeing thy Paynim bard
Had such a mastery of his mystery
That he could harp his wife up out of hell.'
Then Dagonet, turning on the ball of his foot,
`And whither harp'st thou thine? down! a...Read more of this...
by
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...aid he: 'From fret and strife
And vain vexation,
The all I've learned from life
Is--Resignation.'
I asked a Bard who thrummed
A harp clay-cold:
'How is your story summed
Now you are old?'
Though golden voice was his,
And fame had he,
He sighed: 'The finish is
--Futility.'
I'm old; I have no wealth
Toil to reward;
Yet for the boon of health
I thank the Lord.
While Beauty I can see,
To live is good;
And so life's crown to me
Is--Gratitude...Read more of this...
by
Service, Robert William
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