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Famous Elevations Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...t—after absorbing eras, temperaments, races—after
 knowledge, freedom, crimes; 
After complete faith—after clarifyings, elevations, and removing obstructions; 
After these, and more, it is just possible there comes to a man, a woman, the divine power
 to
 use words.

Then toward that man or that woman, swiftly hasten all—None refuse, all attend; 
Armies, ships, antiquities, the dead, libraries, paintings, machines, cities, hate,
 despair,
 amity, pain, theft, murder, aspirati...Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt



...s or any kind of couple
 except in the intensive care
 of poetry and
death's master plan architecture-in-progress
draft elevations of a black-and-white mosaic dome
the master left on your doorstep
with a white card in black calligraphy:
 Make what you will of this
 As if leaving purple roses

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If (how many conditionals must we suffer?)
I tell you a letter from the master
is lying on my own doorstep
glued there with leaves and rain
and I haven't bent to it yet
 if I tell you...Read more of this...
by Rich, Adrienne

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry