Famous Senegal Poems by Famous Poets

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373. Song—The Slave's Lament

...IT was in sweet Senegal that my foes did me enthral,
 For the lands of Virginia,—ginia, O:
Torn from that lovely shore, and must never see it more;
 And alas! I am weary, weary O:
Torn from that lovely shore, and must never see it more;
 And alas! I am weary, weary O.


All on that charming coast is no bitter snow and frost,
 Like the lands of Virginia,—ginia, O:
There stre...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert


The Schooner Flight

...re, sea fans,
dead-men's-fingers, and then, the dead men.
I saw that the powdery sand was their bones
ground white from Senegal to San Salvador,
so, I panic third dive, and surface for a month
in the Seamen's Hostel. Fish broth and sermons.
When I thought of the woe I had brought my wife,
when I saw my worries with that other woman,
I wept under water, salt seeking salt,
for her beauty had fallen on me like a sword
cleaving me from my children, flesh of my flesh!

There was t...Read more of this...
by Walcott, Derek

To the Man-of-War-Bird

...ever furl’st thy sails, 
Days, even weeks untired and onward, through spaces, realms gyrating, 
At dusk that look’st on Senegal, at morn America, 
That sport’st amid the lightning-flash and thunder-cloud, 
In them, in thy experience, had’st thou my soul,
What joys! what joys were thine!...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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