Famous Outpoured Poems by Famous Poets

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

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South Africa

by Rudyard Kipling
 1903
Lived a woman wonderful,
 (May the Lord amend her!)
Neither simple, kind, nor true,
But her Pagan beauty drew
Christian gentlemen a few
 Hotly to attend her.

Christian gentlemen a few
 From Berwick unto Dover;
For she was South Africa,
Ana she was South Africa,
She was Our South Africa,
 Africa all over!

Half her land was dead with drouth,
 Half was red with battle;
She was fenced...Read more of this...

The Eaglet Mourned

by Victor Hugo
 ("Encore si ce banni n'eût rien aimé sur terre.") 
 
 {V, iv., August, 1832.} 


 Too hard Napoleon's fate! if, lone, 
 No being he had loved, no single one, 
 Less dark that doom had been. 
 But with the heart of might doth ever dwell 
 The heart of love! and in his island cell 
...Read more of this...

The Name of France

by Henry Van Dyke
 Give us a name to fill the mind 
With the shining thoughts that lead mankind, 
The glory of learning, the joy of art, -- 
A name that tells of a splendid part 
In the long, long toil and the strenuous fight 
Of the human race to win its way 
From the feudal darkness into the day 
Of Freedom, Brotherhood,...Read more of this...

Freedom

by Helen Hunt Jackson
 I WILL not follow you, my bird,
 I will not follow you.
I would not breathe a word, my bird,
 To bring thee here anew.


I love the free in thee, my bird,
 The lure of freedom drew;
The light you fly toward, my bird,
 I fly with thee unto.


And there we yet will meet, my bird,
 Though far I go from...Read more of this...

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