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Famous Heightening Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...hes covered o'er! 
 In graduated blocks of six feet square 
 From golden base to top, from earth to air 
 Their ever heightening monstrous steps they bore. 
 
 No scorching blast could daunt the sleepless ken 
 Of roseate Sphinx, and god of marble green, 
 Which stood as guardians o'er the sacred ground. 
 For a great port steered vessels huge and fleet, 
 A giant city bathed her marble feet 
 In the bright waters round. 
 
 One heard the dread simoom in distance ...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor



...tender purple spray on copse and briers!
And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening,

Lovely all times she lies, lovely to-night!--
Only, methinks, some loss of habit's power
Befalls me wandering through this upland dim.
Once pass'd I blindfold here, at any hour;
Now seldom come I, since I came with him.
That single elm-tree bright
Against the west--I miss it! is it goner?
We prized it dearly; while it stood, we said,
Our friend...Read more of this...
by Arnold, Matthew

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