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Famous Outshine Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...r boniest lass,
 Her blush is like the morning,
The rosy dawn, the springing grass,
 With early gems adorning.
Her eyes outshine the radiant beams
 That gild the passing shower,
And glitter o’er the crystal streams,
 And cheer each fresh’ning flower.


Her lips, more than the cherries bright,
 A richer dye has graced them;
They charm th’ admiring gazer’s sight,
 And sweetly tempt to taste them;
Her smile is as the evening mild,
 When feather’d pairs are courting,
And little l...Read more of this...
by Burns, Robert



...d blooming cheek,
I feel a joy I cannot speak.

Come talk of Europe's maids with me,
Whose necks and cheeks, they tell,
Outshine the beauty of the sea,
White foam and crimson shell.
I'll shape like theirs my simple dress,
And bind like them each jetty tress.
A sight to please thee well:
And for my dusky brow will braid
A bonnet like an English maid.

Come, for the soft low sunlight calls,
We lose the pleasant hours;
'Tis lovelier than these cottage walls,--
That seat among th...Read more of this...
by Bryant, William Cullen
...n pearls;
The teeth of India that with polish glow,
The untouched lilies or the morning snow.
Her tresses did gold-dust outshine
And fair hair of women of the Rhine.
Compared to her the peacock seemed not fair,
The squirrel lively, or the phoenix rare;
Her on whose pyre the smoke still hovering waits;
Her whom the greedy and unequal fates
On the sixth dawning of her natal day,
My child-love and my playmate - snatcht away....Read more of this...
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
...
The fireflies light the soundless panther's way 
To tangled paths where shy gazelles are straying, 
And parrot-plumes outshine the dying day. 
O soft! the lotus-buds upon the stream 
Are stirring like sweet maidens when they dream. 


A caste-mark on the azure brows of Heaven, 
The golden moon burns sacred, solemn, bright 
The winds are dancing in the forest-temple, 
And swooning at the holy feet of Night. 
Hush! in the silence mystic voices sing 
And make the gods their in...Read more of this...
by Naidu, Sarojini
...MAIDEN! with the meek brown eyes  
In whose orbs a shadow lies 
Like the dusk in evening skies! 

Thou whose locks outshine the sun  
Golden tresses wreathed in one 5 
As the braided streamlets run! 

Standing with reluctant feet  
Where the brook and river meet  
Womanhood and childhood fleet! 

Gazing with a timid glance 10 
On the brooklet's swift advance  
On the river's broad expanse! 

Deep and still that gliding stream 
Beautiful to thee must seem  
...Read more of this...
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth



...smite the wrong, 
To honour Virtue, Valour, Worth. 
To cherish faith and foster song. 
So may the lustre of your days 
Outshine the deeds Firdusi sung, 
Your name within a nation's prayer, 
Your music on a nation's tongue....Read more of this...
by Naidu, Sarojini
...e from hence
As saints shall rise: but hee whose bounty may
Enlighten the greate sunn with double day,
And make it more outshine itselfe than now
It can the moone, shall crowne thy varnish'd brow
With light above that sunn: when thou shalt bee
No lower in thy place than Majesty:
Crown'd with a Virgin's wreath, outshining there
The Saints as much as thou did'st mortalls heere.
Bee this thy hope; and whilst thy ashes ly
Asleepe in death, dreame of Eternity....Read more of this...
by Strode, William
...-but O how fallen! how changed 
From him who, in the happy realms of light 
Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine 
Myriads, though bright!--if he whom mutual league, 
United thoughts and counsels, equal hope 
And hazard in the glorious enterprise 
Joined with me once, now misery hath joined 
In equal ruin; into what pit thou seest 
From what height fallen: so much the stronger proved 
He with his thunder; and till then who knew 
The force of those dire arms? Ye...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...e you down their generation, 
Not having understood there was no malice 
Or grinning evil in a golden shadow
That shall outshine their slight identities 
And hold their faces when their names are nothing. 
But this, as you discern, or should by now 
Surmise, for you is neither here nor there: 
You made your picture as your demon willed it;
That’s about all of that. Now make as many 
As may be to be made,—for so you will, 
Whatever the toll may be, and hold your light 
So that...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...he people stared
up at the sun
nursing cursing its blindness

and many rumours spread.....
a cupboard that
had power to outshine the sun

must surely breed gold or
something godlike
behind such a brilliant door

a delegation was picked
to discover
the cupboard's bright secret

deep in the night it crept
into the house
awed even then by the glow

after much whispering one
was pushed forward
to throw the blazing door wide

inside was black (dread black)
with a smell of
dry rot ...Read more of this...
by Gregory, Rg
...man skies,
Where men with other than man's eyes
Saw thy sun rise.

For theirs thou wast and thine were they
Whose names outshine thy very day;
For they are thine and theirs thou art
Whose blood beats living in man's heart,
Remembering ages fled and dead
Wherein for thy sake these men bled;
They that saw Trebia, they that see
Mentana, they in years to be
That shall see thee.

For thine are all of us, and ours
Thou; till the seasons bring to birth
A perfect people, and all the ...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
...k of youth, he brings you, dearest girl, 
 Treasures of gold, jewels, and precious gems, 
 With which your brow might outshine royalty; 
 And for rank, pride, splendor, and opulence, 
 Might many a queen be envious of his duchess! 
 Here is one picture. I am poor; my youth 
 I passed i' the woods, a barefoot fugitive. 
 My shield, perchance, may bear some noble blazons 
 Spotted with blood, defaced though not dishonored. 
 Perchance I, too, have rights, now veiled in...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor
...possess'd by Lineal Heirs: 
The Males extinct, now All is Theirs. 

I hope I've done their Beauties right, 
Whose Eyes outshine the Stars by Night; 
Their Muffs and Tippets too are White. 

The King of Cedars wav'd his Power, 
And swore he'd fast ev'n from that Hour, 
Ere he'd such Lady Birds devour. 

Th' Agreement seal'd, on either part, 
The Owl now promis'd, from her Heart, 
All his Night-Dangers to divert; 

As Centinel to stand and whoop, 
If single Fowl, or Shoal, or ...Read more of this...
by Finch, Anne Kingsmill
...ince decline 
From that her zenith, and foretells a red 
And blushing evening, when she goes to bed; 
Yet such as shall outshine the glimmering light 
With which all stars shall gild the following night. 
Nor think it much, since all thy eaglets may 
Endure the sunny trial, if we say 
This hath the stronger wing, or that doth shine 
Trick'd up in fairer plumes, since all are thine. 
Who hath his flock of cackling geese compar'd 
With thy tun'd choir of swans? or else who dar'...Read more of this...
by Carew, Thomas
...d that Berenice's hair,
In stars adorns the vault of heaven;
But they would ne'er permit thee there,
Who wouldst so far outshine the seven.

For did those eyes as planets roll,
Thy sister-lights would scarce appear:
E'en suns, which systems now control,
Would twinkle dimly through their sphere....Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)
...f I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine, Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line.  And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek, From thence to honour thee, I would not seek For names : but call forth thund'ring Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage : or when thy socks were on, Leav...Read more of this...
by Jonson, Ben
...I thought my judgement were of years,
I should commit thee surely with thy peers,
And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine,
Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line.
And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek,
From thence to honour thee I would not seek
For names; but call forth thundering Aeschylus,
Euripides, and Sophocles to us,
Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead,
To live again, to hear thy buskin tread,
And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on,
Leave ...Read more of this...
by Jonson, Ben

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