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Famous Gaslights Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...owner of that sad face in the street. 

And when the hours on lagging feet have slowly dragged away,
And sickly yellow gaslights rise to mock the going day,
Then flowing past my window like a tide in its retreat,
Again I see the pallid stream of faces in the street 
 Ebbing out, ebbing out,
 To the drag of tired feet,
While my heart is aching dumbly for the faces in the street. 

And now all blurred and smirched with vice the day's sad pages end,
For while the short 'large h...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry



...The London lights are far abeam 
Behind a bank of cloud, 
Along the shore the gaslights gleam, 
The gale is piping loud; 
And down the Channel, groping blind, 
We drive her through the haze 
Towards the land we left behind -- 
The good old land of `never mind', 
And old Australian ways. 

The narrow ways of English folk 
Are not for such as we; 
They bear the long-accustomed yoke 
Of staid conservancy: 
But all our roads are new and s...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

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