Famous Sweet Gum Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Sweet Gum poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous sweet gum poems. These examples illustrate what a famous sweet gum poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line,
The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum
Superb above the cabin, along the wall—
Stones gathered from the level field nearby
When first we cleared it. (Angry bumblebees
Stung the two mules. They kicked. Thirteen, I ran.)
And then the field: thread-leaf maple, deciduous
Magnolia, hybrid broom, and, further down,
In light shade, one Franklinia Alatamaha
In solstice bloom, all white, most gr...Read more of this...
by
Bowers, Edgar
...se of Oram rejoice with Halus an herb like unto Orgament.
Let Sykes, house of Skyes rejoice with Hadrobolum a kind of sweet gum.
Let Plumer, house of Plumer rejoice with Hastula Regia an herb resembling a spear.
Let Digby, house of Digby rejoice with Glycryhiza Sweetroot. God be gracious to Sr Digby Legard his Son and family.
Let Otway, house of Otway rejoice with Hippice an herb which being held in an horse's mouth keeps him from hunger.
Let Cecil, house of Cecil r...Read more of this...
by
Smart, Christopher
...Pour O pour that parting soul in song
O pour it in the sawdust glow of night
Into the velvet pine-smoke air tonight,
And let the valley carry it along.
And let the valley carry it along.
O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,
So scant of grass, so proligate of pines,
Now hust before an epoch's sun declines
Thy son, in time, I have returned to thee,
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by
Toomer, Jean
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