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Famous Contouring Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Contouring Poems by Members
Best Contouring Poems by Members
Contouring Quotes

Painted Head

by Ransom, John Crowe

...to please what end? 
Not to the glory of tyrant head but to 

The estate of body. Beauty is of body. 
The flesh contouring shallowly on a head 
Is a rock-garden needing body's love 
And best bodiness to colorify 

The big blue birds sitting and sea-shell cats 
And caves, and on the iron acropolis 
To spread the hyacinthine hair and rear 
The olive garden for the nightingales....Read more of this...

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