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- Book Contents: The Animals Noah Forgot:Banjo Paterson by 24 lines, 3 comments
- The Last Of His Tribe by Henry Kendall 40 lines, 3 comments
- An Airfield Remembered by Anonymous British 98 lines, 1 comment
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Cargoes, and the poetry of romantic and economic Man by KevinDunn, from I-Like-RhymesJohn Masefield’s “Cargoes” is a very fine poem, packing an enormous amount of imagery and atmosphere into just 87 words. It is clear, vivid and immediate, and has been deservedly enshrined as a classic and repeatedly anthologized:
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Oldpoetry has 84923 poems total by 5698 authors. 27596 comments.
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on Book Contents: The Animals Noah Forgot:Banjo Paterson by , 4 hours agoNice work Von!
The addition of A B Ps introduction was a great touch. A fun tale setting the scene for the book.
Well done
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on Book Contents: The Animals Noah Forgot:Banjo Paterson by , 6 hours agoThanks for your comment. The writer of these poems is A B 'Banjo' Paterson, a well-loved Australian poet: http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/A_B__Banjo_Paterson - we have over 200+ poems of his on site for you to enjoy.
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on Who's for the Game? by Jessie Pope, 6 hours agoIt's so close to satire, so close to an indictment of war, just an allusion or two stressed and that is what it could mean. Instead it's a shill, a propagandist ploy. It reminds us of that debate, does the end justify the means? Certainly they needed able bodies to fight the war, but is this manner justified. I guess that question intrigues me more than the poem itself, which reads well...which obviously made it all the more effective.
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