Famous Old Salt Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Old Salt poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous old salt poems. These examples illustrate what a famous old salt poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Whitman, Walt
...gh a countenance
white as a sheet;
Near by, the corpse of the child that serv’d in the cabin;
The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully curl’d
whiskers;
The flames, spite of all that can be done, flickering aloft and below;
The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty;
Formless stacks of bodies, and bodies by themselves—dabs of flesh upon the
masts and spars,
Cut of cordage, dangle of rigging, slight shock of the soothe...Read more of this...
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