Famous Sherman Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Sherman poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous sherman poems. These examples illustrate what a famous sherman poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell
...oud Te Deum,
He returns to his Museum
May he find the monstrous reptile
That so long the land has kept ill
By Grant and Sherman throttled,
And by Father Abraham bottled,
(All specked and streaked and mottled
With the scars of murderous battles,
Where he clashed the iron rattles
That gods and men he shook at,)
For all the world to look at!
God bless the great Professor!
And Madam, too, God bless her!
Bless him and all his band,
On the sea and on the land,
Bless them head and h...Read more of this...
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Whitman, Walt
...e our army lines Carolina’s sand and pines,
Forth from thy hovel door, thou, Ethiopia, com’st to me,
As, under doughty Sherman, I march toward the sea.)
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Me, master, years a hundred, since from my parents sunder’d,
A little child, they caught me as the savage beast is caught;
Then hither me, across the sea, the cruel slaver brought.
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No further does she say, but lingering all the day,
Her high-borne turban’d head she wags, and rolls her darkling eye,
And cur...Read more of this...
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Dyke, Henry Van
...This is the soldier brave enough to tell
The glory-dazzled world that `war is hell':
Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,
And rides through hell to save his country's life....Read more of this...
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