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Famous Whittles Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...s he smells ’t,
Baith their disease, and what will mend it,
 At once he tells ’t.


“And then, a’ doctor’s saws an’ whittles,
Of a’ dimensions, shapes, an’ mettles,
A’ kind o’ boxes, mugs, an’ bottles,
 He’s sure to hae;
Their Latin names as fast he rattles
 As A B C.


“Calces o’ fossils, earths, and trees;
True sal-marinum o’ the seas;
The farina of beans an’ pease,
 He has’t in plenty;
Aqua-fontis, what you please,
 He can content ye.


“Forbye some new, uncomm...Read more of this...



by Piercy, Marge
...untain
till split by lightning.
But a gardener
carefully pruned it.
It is nine inches high.
Every day as he
whittles back the branches
the gardener croons,
It is your nature
to be small and cozy,
domestic and weak;
how lucky, little tree,
to have a pot to grow in.
With living creatures
one must begin very early
to dwarf their growth:
the bound feet,
the crippled brain,
the hair in curlers,
the hands you
love to touch....Read more of this...

by Dickinson, Emily
...ckness over
In convalescent Mind,
His scrutiny of Chances
By blessed Health obscured --

As One rewalks a Precipice
And whittles at the Twig
That held Him from Perdition
Sown sidewise in the Crag

A Custom of the Soul
Far after suffering
Identity to question
For evidence't has been --...Read more of this...

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