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Famous Townships Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Lawson, Henry
...ach lonely spot where an enemy's foot might tread. 

In the cooling breeze of the coastal streams, or out where the townships bake, 
They march in fancy, and fight in dreams, and die for Australia's sake. 
They hold the fort till relief arrives, when the landing parties storm, 
And they take the pride of their fresh young lives in the set of a uniform. 

Where never a loaded shell was hurled, nor a rifle fired to kill, 
The schoolboy scouts of the Southern World a...Read more of this...



by Paterson, Andrew Barton
...ell-birds on the range? 
But, perchance, the wild birds' music by your senses was despised, 
For you say you'll stay in townships till the bush is civilized. 
Would you make it a tea-garden, and on Sundays have a band 
Where the "blokes" might take their "donahs", with a "public" close at hand? 
You had better stick to Sydney and make merry with the "push", 
For the bush will never suit you, and you'll never suit the bush....Read more of this...

by Frost, Robert
...n left to laugh at,
And like the actress exclaim "Oh, my God" at?
There's Bungey; and for Bungey there are towns,
Whole townships named but without population.

Anything I can say about New Hampshire
Will serve almost as well about Vermont,
Excepting that they differ in their mountains.
The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight;
New Hampshire mountains Curl up in a coil.

I had been coming to New Hampshire mountains.
And here I am and what am I to say?
H...Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...es I hollowed.
 They'll go back and do the talking. They'll be called the Pioneers!

They will find my sites of townships -- not the cities that I set there.
 They will rediscover rivers -- not my rivers heard at night.
By my own old marks and bearings they will show me how to get there,
 By the lonely cairns I builded they will guide my feet aright.

Have I named one single river? Have I claimed one single acre?
 Have I kept one single nugget -- (barring ...Read more of this...

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