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Famous Slingers Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Kipling, Rudyard
...'ungry beggars, to yer sorrow.
 ('Ear them say they want their tea, an' want it quick!)
You won't have no mind for slingers, not to-morrow --
 No; you'll put the 'tween-decks stove out, bein' sick!

'Alt! The married kit 'as all to go before us!
 'Course it's blocked the bloomin' gangway up again!
Cheer, O cheer the 'Orse Guards watchin' tender o'er us,
 Keepin' us since eight this mornin' in the rain!

Stuck in 'eavy marchin'-order, sopped and wringin' --
 Sick, before ...Read More



by Sandburg, Carl
...IF we were such and so, the same as these,
maybe we too would be slingers and sliders,
tumbling half over in the water mirrors,
tumbling half over at the horse heads of the sun,
tumbling our purple numbers.

Twirl on, you and your satin blue.
Be water birds, be air birds.
Be these purple tumblers you are.

 Dip and get away
From loops into slip-knots,
Write your own ciphers and figure eights.
It is you...Read More

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