Famous Native Born Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Native Born poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous native born poems. These examples illustrate what a famous native born poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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I SING the Body electric;
The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Soul.
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves;
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who...Read more of this...
by
Whitman, Walt
...We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! --
We've drunk to our mothers' land;
We've drunk to our English brother,
(But he does not understand);
We've drunk to the wide creation,
And the Cross swings low for the mom,
Last toast, and of Obligation,
A health to the Native-born!
They change their skies above them,
But not their hearts that roam!
We lea...Read more of this...
by
Kipling, Rudyard
...Australia takes her pen in hand
To write a line to you,
To let you fellows understand
How proud we are of you.
From shearing shed and cattle run,
From Broome to Hobson's Bay,
Each native-born Australian son
Stands straighter up today.
The man who used to "hump his drum",
On far-out Queensland runs
Is fighting side by side with some
Tasmanian fa...Read more of this...
by
Paterson, Andrew Barton
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