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Famous Ghat Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...he cattle crawl afield beneath the yoke,
And they bear One o'er the field-path, who is past all hope or caring,
 To the ghat below the curling wreaths of smoke.
 Call on Rama, going slowly, as ye bear a brother lowly --
 Call on Rama -- he may hear, perhaps, your voice!
 With our hymn-books and our psalters we appeal to other altars,
 And to-day we bid "good Christian men rejoice!"

High noon behind the tamarisks -- the sun is hot above us --
 As at Home the Christmas Day is ...Read more of this...
by Kipling, Rudyard



...you have vanished from the scene."
"I've been," says I, "to Kordovan and Kong and Calabar,
To Sarawak and Samarkand, to Ghat and Bolivar;
To Caracas and Guayaquil, to Lhasa and Pekin,
To Brahmapurta and Brazil, to Bagdad and Benin.
I've sailed the Black Sea and the White, The Yellow and the Red,
The Sula and the Celebes, the Bering and the Dead.
I've climbed on Chimborazo, and I've wandered in Peru;
I've camped on Kinchinjunga, and I've crossed the Great Karoo.
I've drifted o...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...ther per stirpes nor per capita

No plot by the riverbank in your father’s village of Kozencheri

Or by the burning ghat in Varanasi.

All you have is a writing hand smeared with ink and little bits of paper

Swirling in a violent wind.

I am a blue-black child cheeks swollen with a butter ball

I stole from mama’s kitchen

Stones and sky and stars melt in my mouth

Wooden spoon in hand she chased me

Round and round the tamarind tree.

I am musk in the wi...Read more of this...
by Alexander, Meena

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