Famous Overstate Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Overstate poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous overstate poems. These examples illustrate what a famous overstate poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...WE overstate the ills of life, and take
Imagination (given us to bring down
The choirs of singing angels overshone
By God's clear glory) down our earth to rake
The dismal snows instead, flake following flake,
To cover all the corn; we walk upon
The shadow of hills across a level thrown,
And pant like climbers: near the alder brake
We sigh so loud, the nightinga...Read more of this...
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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