Famous Outlining Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Abt Vogler

...the rest:
For higher still and higher (as a runner tips with fire,
When a great illumination surprises a festal night--
Outlining round and round Rome's dome from space to spire)
Up, the pinnacled glory reached, and the pride of my soul was in sight.

In sight? Not half! for it seemed, it was certain, to match man's birth,
Nature in turn conceived, obeying an impulse as I;
And the emulous heaven yearned down, made effort to reach the earth,
As the earth had done her best, in ...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert


Bridge Over The Aire Book 1

...roof, the

Great doors locked, the Virgin weeping.



Night has come to Leeds, the carnival is bright

With neon lights outlining every stall and carousel,

The Civic Hall is strung with a thousand bulbs,

On Beeston Hill I hold the city in my arms.





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An iridescent car of fire

Is drawn across the winter sky

From the gates of heaven to Mount St. Mary’s;

On Beeston Hill a haptic wind raises

The ghosts of splayed dead leaves

And light through chandeliers glows

In ...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

To a Historian

...g the pulse of the life that has seldom exhibited itself, (the great
 pride of man in himself;)
Chanter of Personality, outlining what is yet to be, 
I project the history of the future....Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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