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Famous Alkali Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...ome new, uncommon weapons,
Urinus spiritus of capons;
Or mite-horn shavings, filings, scrapings,
 Distill’d per se;
Sal-alkali o’ midge-tail clippings,
 And mony mae.”


“Waes me for Johnie Ged’s-Hole 5 now,”
Quoth I, “if that thae news be true!
His braw calf-ward whare gowans grew,
 Sae white and bonie,
Nae doubt they’ll rive it wi’ the plew;
 They’ll ruin Johnie!”


The creature grain’d an eldritch laugh,
And says “Ye needna yoke the pleugh,
Kirkyards will soon be till’...Read more of this...



by Markham, Edwin
...he walls of Babylon rose in air. 
How languid hills were heaped along the sky, 
And white bones marked the wells of alkali, 
When suddenly down the lion-path a sound . . . 
The wild man-odor . . . then a crouch, a bound, 
And the frail Thing fell quivering with a cry! 

Your yellow eyes burned beautiful with light: 
The dead man lying there quieted and white: 
I roared my triumph over the desert wide, 
Then stretched out, glad for the sands and sat...Read more of this...

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