10 Best Famous Epigram Poems

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

• All Famous Epigram Poems

 What's friendship? The hangover's faction,
The gratis talk of outrage,
Exchange by vanity, inaction,
Or bitter shame of patronage.

 Pussy-cat
What are vices?
Catching rats
And eating mices!

 But outer Space,
At least this far,
For all the fuss
Of the populace
Stays more popular
Than populous

 To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
Whenever you’re right, shut up.

 Consider the auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.
Consider man, who may well become extinct
Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.

 I’M now arrived—thanks to the gods!—
 Thro’ pathways rough and muddy,
A certain sign that makin roads
 Is no this people’s study:
Altho’ Im not wi’ Scripture cram’d,
 I’m sure the Bible says
That heedless sinners shall be damn’d,
 Unless they mend their ways.

 Apology for Her
Be rendered by the Bee --
Herself, without a Parliament
Apology for Me.

 That this should feel the need of Death
The same as those that lived
Is such a Feat of Irony
As never was -- achieved --

Not satisfied to ape the Great
In his simplicity
The small must die, as well as He --
Oh the Audacity --

 I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

 Nature assigns the Sun --
That -- is Astronomy --
Nature cannot enact a Friend --
That -- is Astrology.