SAVANNAH POEMS

Assumpta Maria

Mortals, that behold a Woman,
Rising 'twixt the Moon and Sun;
Who am I the heavens assume? an
All am I, and I am one.
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Francis Thompson

Anna, Thy Charms

Yestreen I had a pint o' wine,
A place where body saw na;
Yestreen lay on this breast o' mine
The gowden locks of Anna.
.....

Robert Burns

After The Battles Are Over

Read at Reunion of the G. A. T., Madison, Wis., July 4, 1872.

After the battles are over,
And the war drums cease to beat,
.....

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Birds Of Passage (from The Swedish)

So hot shines the sun upon Nile's yellow stream,
That the palm-trees can save us no more from his beam;
Now comes the desire for home, in full force,
And Northward our phalanx bends swiftly its course.
.....

George Borrow

Longings For Home

ick mettle, rich blood, impulse, and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
O dear to me my birth-thingsâ??All moving things, and the trees where I was
bornâ??the
grains,
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Walt Whitman

Patience Taught By Nature

'O DREARY life,' we cry, ' O dreary life ! '
And still the generations of the birds
Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and herds
Serenely live while we are keeping strife
.....

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet Lxi

Supposed to have been written in America.

ILL-omen'd bird! whose cries portentous float
O'er yon savannah with the mournful wind;
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Charlotte Smith

The Angler - Prose

This day Dame Nature seem'd in love,
The lusty sap began to move,
Fresh juice did stir th' embracing vines,
And birds had drawn their valentines.
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Washington Irving

Rokeby: Canto Iii.

I.
The hunting tribes of air and earth
Respect the brethren of their birth;
Nature, who loves the claim of kind,
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Walter Scott (sir)

Plutonian Ode

I

What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there
a new thing under the Sun?
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Allen Ginsberg

Variations At Home And Abroad

It takes a lot of a person's life
To be French, or English, or American
Or Italian. And to be at any age. To live at any certain time.
The Polish-born resident of Manhattan is not merely a representative of
.....

Kenneth Koch

Mock Panegyric On A Young Friend

In measured verse I'll now rehearse
The charms of lovely Anna:
And, first, her mind is unconfined
Like any vast savannah.
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Jane Austen

The Gowden Locks Of Anna

YESTREEN I had a pint o' wine,
A place where body saw na;
Yestreen lay on this breast o' mine
The gowden locks of Anna.
.....

Robert Burns

Anna

Yestreen I had a pint o' wine,
A place where body saw na;
Yestreen lay on this breast o' mine
The gowden locks of Anna.
.....

Robert Burns

The Gowden Locks Of Anna.

Tune - "Banks of Banna."



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Robert Burns

Rokeby: Canto Iii.

I.
The hunting tribes of air and earth
Respect the brethren of their birth;
Nature, who loves the claim of kind,
.....

Sir Walter Scott

Sherman's In Savannah - A Half-rhymed Impromptu

Like the tribes of Israel,
Fed on quails and manna,
Sherman and his glorious band
Journeyed through the rebel land,
.....

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A Letter To Cherie

Let my ink upon thine flowery heart dance
Or your apple walls to inscribe,
the many words of my heart untold:
Decades I see you strut the farm road or scoop from the black river bank.
.....

Eferebo Chibuzor

Please Don't Go Away

A Dusty night full of thoughts,
No doubt, I've lost my guts,
What else can I say?,
No one can love me this way;
.....

Emmanuel Shadrach

The Frenzy In The Wake

[14]
Sherman's advance through the Carolinas.
(February, 1865.)

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Herman Melville

Arms And The Man. - The Southern Colonies

Then sweeping down below Virginia's Capes,
From Chesapeake to where Savannah flows,
We find the settlers laughing 'mid their grapes
And ignorant of snows.
.....

James Barron Hope

The Aroma Of War

The banana republic
The kingdom of terrorists
Men of no conscience
At Sambisa savannah.
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Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke