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Famous Evolutions Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Sandburg, Carl
...low trickles in a fan figure, scatters a line of skirmishers, spreads a chorus of dancing girls, performs blazing ochre evolutions, gathers the whole show into one stream, forgets the past and rolls on.

The sea mist green of the bowl’s bottom is a dark throat of SKY crossed by quarreling forks of umber and ochre and yellow changing FACES....Read more of this...



by Whitman, Walt
...not, can plainly see Her, 
The same Undying Soul of Earth’s, activity’s, beauty’s, heroism’s Expression, 
Out from her evolutions hither come—submerged the strata of her former themes, 
Hidden and cover’d by to-day’s—foundation of to-day’s; 
Ended, deceas’d, through time, her voice by Castaly’s fountain;
Silent through time the broken-lipp’d Sphynx in Egypt—silent those century-baffling tombs;

Closed for aye the epics of Asia’s, Europe’s helmeted warriors; 
Calliope’s call ...Read more of this...

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