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Famous Sum Up Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Burns, Robert
...e’en at thyself:
Learn to despise those frowns now so terrific,
And love a kinder—that’s your grand specific.


To sum up all, be merry, I advise;
And as we’re merry, may we still be wise....Read more of this...



by Carroll, Lewis
...your votes." 
Here the speaker sat down in his place, 
And directed the Judge to refer to his notes
And briefly to sum up the case. 

But the Judge said he never had summed up before; 
So the Snark undertook it instead, 
And summed it so well that it came to far more
Than the Witnesses ever had said! 

When the verdict was called for, the Jury declined, 
As the word was so puzzling to spell; 
But they ventured to hope that the Snark wouldn't mind 
Undertaking that du...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...,
And in a stint of soil the end
 I seek of sun and sky.
My farings far on land and sea,
 My trails of global girth
Sum up to this,--to cover me
 Six feet of earth.

My home of homes I hold in fee
 For centuries to pass,
When snug my skeleton will be
 And grin up through the grass;
When my grey ghost will bend above,
 And grieve to gracious God
This endless end of life and love,--
 Six feet of sod....Read more of this...

by Carroll, Lewis
...your votes."
 Here the speaker sat down in his place,
And directed the Judge to refer to his notes
 And briefly to sum up the case.

But the Judge said he never had summed up before;
 So the Snark undertook it instead,
And summed it so well that it came to far more
 Than the Witnesses ever had said!

When the verdict was called for, the Jury declined,
 As the word was so puzzling to spell;
But they ventured to hope that the Snark wouldn't mind
 Undertaking that duty ...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...It is not power and fame
 That make success;
It is not rank or name
 Rate happiness.
It is not honour due
 Nor pile of pelf:
The pay-off is: Did you
 Enjoy yourself?

A pal of days gone by
 I reckon more
Of a success than I
 Who've gold in store
His life, though none too long,
 Was never dull:
Of woman, wine and song
 Bill had his full.

Friend, yo...Read more of this...



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