Famous Wriggles Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Lead Soldiers

...

The china mandarin on the bookcase nods slowly, forward and back 
--
forward and back -- and the red rose writhes and wriggles,
thrusting its flaming petals under and over one another like tortured 
snakes.
The fire strokes them with its dartles, and purrs 
at them,
and the old man nods.

Tommy does not hear the song. He only sees the beautiful, 
new,
gaily-coloured lead soldiers. They belong to him, and 
he is very proud
and happy. He shouts his orders aloud, and gallops h...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy


Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening

...ht on the floor began to undulate.
It heaved and hollowed,
It rose like a tide,
Sea-green,
Full of claws and scales
And wriggles.
The air above his bed began to move;
It weighed over him
In a mass of draggled feathers.
Not one lifted to stir the air.
They drooped and dripped
With a smell of port wine and brandy,
Closing down, slowly,
Trickling drops on the bed-quilt.
Suddenly the window fell in with a great scatter of glass,
And the moon burst into the room,
Sizzling -- "S-s-...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

No Buyers

...ased by a pause; too plainly he's old,
Indeed, not strength enough shows
To steer the disjointed waggon straight,
Which wriggles left and right in a rambling line,
Deflected thus by its own warp and weight,
And pushing the pony with it in each incline.

The woman walks on the pavement verge,
Parallel to the man:
She wears an apron white and wide in span,
And carries a like Turk's-head, but more in nursing-wise:
Now and then she joins in his dirge,
But as if her thoughts were ...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

Slippery

...THE SIX month child
Fresh from the tub
Wriggles in our hands.
This is our fish child.
Give her a nickname: Slippery....Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

The Boogah Man

...86" target="_blank">[Pg 186]Of de Boogah Man!
Ef you loves yo' mammy,
An' you min's yo' pap,
Ef you nevah wriggles
Outen Sukey's lap;
Ef you says yo' "Lay me"
Evah single night
'Fo' dey tucks de kivers
An' puts out de light,
Den de rain kin pattah
Win' blow lak a fan,
But you need n' bothah
'Bout de Boogah Man!
...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul


The Dance Of Death

...shake themselves all, and the shrouds soon appear

Scatter'd over the tombs in confusion.

Now waggles the leg, and now wriggles the thigh,

As the troop with strange gestures advance,
And a rattle and clatter anon rises high,

As of one beating time to the dance.
The sight to the warder seems wondrously *****,
When the villainous Tempter speaks thus in his ear:

"Seize one of the shrouds that lie yonder!"

Quick as thought it was done! and for safety he fled

Behind the chur...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Westgate-On-Sea

...g noses
And the drooping lip beneath.

Church of England bells of Westgate!
On this balcony I stand,
White the woodwork wriggles round me,
Clocktowers rise on either hand.

For me in my timber arbour
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"Plimsolls, plimsolls in the summer,
Oh galoshes in the wet!"...Read more of this...
by Betjeman, John

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