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Famous Outruns Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Browning, Robert
.... Scalp-disease 
Confounds me, crossing so with leprosy-- 
Thou hadst admired one sort I gained at Zoar-- 
But zeal outruns discretion. Here I end. 

Yet stay: my Syrian blinketh gratefully, 
Protesteth his devotion is my price-- 
Suppose I write what harms not, though he steal? 
I half resolve to tell thee, yet I blush, 
What set me off a-writing first of all. 
An itch I had, a sting to write, a tang! 
For, be it this town's barrenness--or else 
The Man had s...Read more of this...



by Shakespeare, William
...they hounds.

"And when thou hast on food the purblind hare,
Mark the poor wretch, to overshoot his troubles
How he outruns with winds, and with what care
He cranks and crosses with a thousand doubles:
The many musits through the which he goes
Are like a labyrinth to amaze his foes.

"Sometime he runs among a flock of sheep,
To make the cunning hounds mistake their smell,
And sometime where earth-delving conies keep,
To stop the loud pursuers in their yell,
And someti...Read more of this...

by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...pty admonition; 
Only I ask of you, should strife arise 
In Camelot, to remember, if you may,
That you’ve an ardor that outruns your reason, 
Also a glamour that outshines your guile; 
And you are a strange hater. I know that; 
And I’m in fortune that you hate not me. 
Yet while we have our sins to dream about,
Time has done worse for time than in our making; 
Albeit there may be sundry falterings 
And falls against us in the Book of Man.” 

“Praise Adam, you are ...Read more of this...

by Rossetti, Christina
...fe plies a wearied wing;
Death following hard on life gains ground apace;
Faith runs with each and rears an eager face,
Outruns the rest, makes light of everything,
Spurns earth, and still finds breath to pray and sing;
While love ahead of all uplifts his praise,
Still asks for grace and still gives thanks for grace,
Content with all day brings and night will bring.
Life wanes; and when love folds his wings above
Tired hope, and less we feel his conscious pulse,
Let us go...Read more of this...

by Kipling, Rudyard
...ght except the groaning guns?
 What man heeds aught save what each instant brings?
When each man's life all imaged life outruns,
 What man shall pleasure in imaginings?
So it hath fallen, as it was bound to fall,
We are not, nor we were not, heard at all....Read more of this...



by Tynan, Katharine
...l his tender brother. 

All day, with forethought mild and grave, 
The little angel's quick to save. 
And still outruns with tender haste 
The adventurous feet that go too fast. 

From draughts, from fire, from cold and stings 
Wraps him within his gauzy wings; 
And knows his father's pride, and shares 
His happy mother's tears and prayers....Read more of this...

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