Famous Sunbaked Poems by Famous Poets

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

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In Defence of the Bush

...should journey down the very track you went 
In a month or two at furthest, you would wonder what it meant; 
Where the sunbaked earth was gasping like a creature in itts pain 
You would find the grasses waving like a field of summer grain, 
And the miles of thirsty gutters, blocked with sand and choked with mud, 
You would find them mighty rivers with a turbid, sweeping flood. 
For the rain and drought and sunshine make no changes in the street, 
In the sullen line of buildi...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton


The Hill We Climb

...rs first realized revolution
We will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states,
we will rise from the sunbaked south
We will rebuild, reconcile and recover
and every known nook of our nation and
every corner called our country,
our people diverse and beautiful will emerge,
battered and beautiful
When day comes we step out of the shade,
aflame and unafraid
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light,
if only we're brave enough to see...Read more of this...
by Gorman, Amanda

The Lost Drink

...mething that smelt like lemon, 
And something that seemed like spice. 
It fell on my parching palate 
Like the dew on a sunbaked plain, 
And my system began to flourish 
Like the grass in the soft spring rain; 
It wandered throughout my being, 
Suffusing my soul with rest, 
And I felt as I "scoffed" that liquid 
That life had a new-found zest. 

I have been on the razzle-dazzle 
Full many a time since then 
But I never could get the chemist 
To brew me that drink again. 
He s...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

There is no Breeze to Cool the Heat of Love

...As those who eat a Luscious Fruit, sunbaked,
     Full of sweet juice, with zest, until they find
   It finished, and their appetite unslaked,
     And so return and eat the pared-off rind;—

   We, who in Youth, set white and careless teeth
     In the Ripe Fruits of Pleasure while they last,
   Later, creep back to gnaw the cast-off sheath,
     And find there is no Rival like the P...Read more of this...
by Nicolson, Adela Florence Cory

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