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Famous Sumatra Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Whitman, Walt
...r on the wide inland, or bargaining in the shops of Lassa! 
You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylon, Sumatra, Borneo! 
All you continentals of Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, indifferent of place! 
All you on the numberless islands of the archipelagoes of the sea! 
And you of centuries hence, when you listen to me!
And you, each and everywhere, whom I specify not, but include just the same! 
Health to you! Good will to you all—from me and America sent....Read More



by Borges, Jorge Luis
...t have no life,
And not the fated tiger, the deadly jewel
That under sun or stars or changing moon
Goes on in Bengal or Sumatra fulfilling
Its rounds of love and indolence and death.
To the tiger of symbols I hold opposed
The one that's real, the one whose blood runs hot
As it cuts down a herd of buffaloes,
And that today, this August third, nineteen
Fifty-nine, throws its shadow on the grass;
But by the act of giving it a name,
By trying to fix the limits of its world,
I...Read More

by Voznesensky, Andrei
...bohemian, a former tradesman. 
 To get to the Louvre 
 from the lanes of Montmartre 
 he circled around 
 as far as Sumatra! 

 He had to abandon the madness of money, 
 the filth of the scholars, the snarl of his honey. 
 The man overcame the terrestrial gravity, 
 The priests, drinking beer, would laugh at his "vanity": 
 "A straight line is short, but it is much too simple, 
 He'd better depict beds of roses for people." 

 And yet, like a rocket, he flew off w...Read More

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