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Famous Evolve Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Graves, Robert
...Sheet it with sheets 
Of empty conceits, 
And chop and chew, 
And hack and hew, 
And weld it into a uniform stanza,
And evolve a neat, 
Complacent, complete, 
Academic extravaganza!...Read more of this...



by Dillard, Annie
...ffocated by vaults. There is no hope, your eyes
are not accustomed to seeing such things.

They are starting to evolve an American gait out
of the cautious steps of the Indians on the paths of empty 
Manhattan. Maybe it only seems that way....Read more of this...

by Levertov, Denise
...ocent form
but to this creature vainly sure
it and no other is god-like, God
(out of compassion for our ugly
failure to evolve) entrusts,
as guest, as brother,
the Word....Read more of this...

by Masters, Edgar Lee
...self, and wrecked the grinder
He ran it with.
But here is a joke of cosmic size:
The urge of nature that made a man
Evolve from his brain a spiritual life --
Oh miracle of the world! --
The very same brain with which the ape and wolf
Get food and shelter and procreate themselves.
Nature has made man do this,
In a world where she gives him nothing to do
After all -- (though the strength of his soul goes round
In a futile waste of power.
To gear itself to the mills ...Read more of this...

by Levertov, Denise
...o one discovers
just where we've been, when we're caught up again
into our own sphere (where we must
return, indeed, to evolve our destinies)
--but we have changed, a little....Read more of this...



by Hardy, Thomas
...ies 
 May gather and gain. 

"'Give me,' he has said, 'but the matter 
 And means the gods lot her, 
My brain could evolve a creation 
 More seemly, more sane.' 

- "If ever a naughtiness seized me 
 To woo adulation 
From creatures more keen than those crude ones 
 That first formed my train - 

"If inly a moment I murmured, 
 'The simple praise sweetly, 
But sweetlier the sage'--and did rashly 
 Man's vision unrein, 

"I rue it! . . . His guileless forer...Read more of this...

by Cullen, Countee
...e?

I raised my burning eyes, beheld a field
All multitudinous with carnal yield,
A grim ensanguined mead whereon I saw
Evolve the ancient fundamental law
Of tooth and talon, fist and nail and claw.
There with the force of living, hostile hills
Whose clash the hemmed-in vale with clamor fills,
With greater din contended fierce majestic wills
Of beast with beast, of man with man, in strife
For love of what my heart despised, for life
That unto me at dawn was now a prayer
F...Read more of this...

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