10 Best Famous Outmoded Poems

Here is a collection of the top 10 all-time best famous Outmoded poems. This is a select list of the best famous Outmoded poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Outmoded poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of outmoded poems.

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 If external action is effete
and rhyme is outmoded,
I shall revert to you,
Habakkuk, as when in a Bible class
the teacher was speaking of unrhymed verse.
He said - and I think I repeat his exact words - 
"Hebrew poetry is prose
with a sort of heightened consciousness." Ecstasy affords
the occasion and expediency determines the form.

 They say that rhyme and rhythm are
 Outmoded now.
I do not know, for I am far
 From high of brow.
But if the twain you take away,
 Since basely bred,
Proud Poetry, I dare to say,
 Would scarce be read.

With humble heart I thus define
 My rôle in rhyme:
Oh may I never write a line
 That does not chime.
And though a verse be nigh as sweet
 As honey-comb,
To please me, let it have the beat
 Of metronome.

So to my modest muse I give
 A grateful pen;
Of lowliness I sing, who live
 With lowly men.
And though I never cease to grieve
 Poetic lack,
I do my best,--please take or leave
 A Verseman's Pack.