Famous Senegal Poems by Famous Poets

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

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373. Song—The Slave's Lament

by Robert Burns
 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...Read more of this...

To the Man-of-War-Bird

by Walt Whitman
 THOU who hast slept all night upon the storm, 
Waking renew’d on thy prodigious pinions, 
(Burst the wild storm? above it thou ascended’st, 
And rested on the sky, thy slave that cradled thee,) 
Now a blue point, far, far in heaven floating,
As to the light emerging here on deck I watch thee, 
(Myself a speck, a point on the...Read more of this...

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