Famous Washtub Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Washtub poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous washtub poems. These examples illustrate what a famous washtub poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Sandburg, Carl
...act shimmying a fast shimmy to The Livery Stable Blues.
It is long ago, Elsie Flimmerwon, I saw your mother over a washtub in a grape arbor when your father came with the locomotor ataxia shuffle.
It is long ago, Elsie, and now they spell your name with an electric sign.
Then you were a little thing in checked gingham and your mother wiped your nose and said: You little fool, keep off the streets.
Now you are a big girl at last and streetfuls of people rea...Read more of this...
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