Famous Slinging Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Purple Martins

...ere in Lincoln park.
Everybody knows this belongs to you.

 Five fat geese
Eat grass on a sod bank
And never count your slinging ciphers,
 your sliding figure eights,

A man on a green paint iron bench,
Slouches his feet and sniffs in a book,
And looks at you and your loops and slip-knots,
And looks at you and your sheaths of satin blue,
And slouches again and sniffs in the book,
And mumbles: It is an idle and a doctrinaire exploit.
Go on tumbling half over in the water mirro...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl


The Cambaroora Star

...nters who are always found behind, 
And who only shepherd diggers till they track them to the `find'. 

Charlie wrote a slinging leader, calling on his digger mates, 
And he said: `We think that Chinkies are as bad as syndicates. 
What's the good of holding meetings where you only talk and swear? 
Get a move upon the Chinkies when you've got an hour to spare.' 
It was nine o'clock next morning when the Chows began to swarm, 
But they weren't so long in going, for the diggers'...Read more of this...
by Lawson, Henry

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