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Famous Kingston Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 

3RD WITCH:Lung of Labour agitator, 
Gall of Isaacs turning traitor; 
Spleen that Kingston has revealed, 
Sawdust stuffing out of Neild; 
Mix them up, and then combine 
With duplicity of Lyne, 
Alfred Deakin's gift of gab, 
Mix the gruel thick and slab. 

ALL: Double, double, toil and trouble, 
Heav'n help Australia in her trouble. 

HECATE: Oh, well done, I commend your pains, 
And everyone shall share i' the gains, 
And now abou...Read more of this...



by Walcott, Derek
...e dials of a million radios, 
a throbbing sunset that glowed like a grid 
where the dread beat rose from the jukebox of Kingston. 
He saw the fountains dried of quadrilles, the water-music 
of the country dancers, the fiddlers like fifes 
put aside. He had to heal 
this malarial island in its bath of bay leaves, 
its forests tossing with fever, the dry cattle 
groaning like winches, the grass that kept shaking 
its head to remember its name. No vowels left 
in the...Read more of this...

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