10 Best Famous Disillusionment Poems

Here is a collection of the top 10 all-time best famous Disillusionment poems. This is a select list of the best famous Disillusionment poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Disillusionment poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of disillusionment poems.

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The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.
None are green,
Or purple with green rings,
Or green with yellow rings,
Or yellow with blue rings.
None of them are strange,
With socks of lace
And beaded ceintures.
People are not going
To dream of baboons and periwinkles.
Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches tigers
In red weather.

 I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me --
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination
But my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.
And now I know that we must lift the sail
And catch the winds of destiny
Wherever they drive the boat.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire --
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Disillusionment (Español)

    Ya, desengaño mío,
llegasteis al extremo
que pudo en vuestro ser
verificar el serlo.

    Todo los habéis perdido;
mas no todo, pues creo
que aun a costa es de todo
barato el escarmiento.

    No envidiaréis de amor
los gustos lisonjeros:
que está un escarmentado
muy remoto del riesgro.

    El no esperar alguno
me sirve de consuelo;
que también es alivio
el no buscar remedio.

    En la pérdida misma
los alivios encuentro:
pues si perdi el tesoro,
también se perdió el miedo.

    No tener qué perder
me sirve de sosiego;
que no teme ladrones,
desnudo, el pasajero.

    Ni aun la libertad misma
tenerla por bien quiero:
que luego será daño
si por tal la poseo.

    No quiero más cuidados
de bienes tan inciertos,
sino tener el alma
como que no la tengo.

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Disillusionment (English)

    Disillusionment,
this is the bitter end,
this proves you're rightly called
the end of illusion.

   You've made me lose all,
yet no, losing all
is not paying too dear
for being undeceived.

   No more will you envy
the allurements of love,
for one undeceived
has no risk left to run.

   It's some consolation
to be expecting none:
there's relief to be found
in seeking no cure.

   In loss itself
I find assuagement:
having lost the treasure,
I've nothing to fear.

   Having nothing to lose
brings peace of mind:
one traveling without funds
need not fear thieves.

   Liberty itself
for me is no boon:
if I hold it such,
it will soon be my bane.

   No more worries for me
over boons so uncertain:
I will own my very soul
as if it were not mine.

 The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.
None are green,
Or purple with green rings,
Or green with yellow rings,
Or yellow with blue rings.
None of them are strange,
With socks of lace
And beaded ceintures.
People are not going
To dream of baboons and periwinkles.
Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches Tigers
In red weather.