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Famous Blackman Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...obau 
Did that red sunset see;
Colbert, Legros, Blancard!… And of the foe 
Picton and Ponsonby; 

With Gordon, Canning, Blackman, Ompteda, 
L’Estrange, Delancey, Packe, 
Grose, D’Oyly, Stables, Morice, Howard, Hay,
Von Schwerin, Watzdorf, Boek, 

Smith, Phelips, Fuller, Lind, and Battersby, 
And hosts of ranksmen round… 
Memorials linger yet to speak to thee 
Of those that bit the ground!

The Guards’ last column yielded; dykes of dead 
Lay between vale and ridge, 
As, thinne...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas



...One day old Trooper Campbell 
Rode out to Blackman's Run, 
His cap-peak and his sabre 
Were glancing in the sun. 
'Twas New Year's Eve, and slowly 
Across the ridges low 
The sad Old Year was drifting 
To where the old years go. 

The trooper's mind was reading 
The love-page of his life -- 
His love for Mary Wylie 
Ere she was Blackman's wife; 
He sorrowed for the sorrows 
Of the heart a rival won,...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

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