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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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