10 Best Famous Pessimist Poems
Here is a collection of the top 10 all-time best famous Pessimist poems. This is a select list of the best famous Pessimist poetry. Reading, writing, and enjoying famous Pessimist poetry (as well as classical and contemporary poems) is a great past time. These top poems are the best examples of pessimist poems.
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Written by
Eugene Field |
If our own life is the life of a flower
(And that's what some sages are thinking),
We should moisten the bud with a health-giving flood
And 'twill bloom all the sweeter--
Yes, life's the completer
For drinking,
and drinking,
and drinking.
If it be that our life is a journey
(As many wise folk are opining),
We should sprinkle the way with the rain while we may;
Though dusty and dreary,
'Tis made cool and cheery
With wining,
and wining,
and wining.
If this life that we live be a dreaming
(As pessimist people are thinking),
To induce pleasant dreams there is nothing, meseems,
Like this sweet prescription,
That baffles description--
This drinking,
and drinking,
and drinking.
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Written by
Thomas Hardy |
I'm Smith of Stoke aged sixty odd
I've lived without a dame all my life
And wish to God
My dad had done the same.
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Written by
Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
This one sits shivering in Fortune’s smile,
Taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath.
This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while
Laughs in the teeth of Death.
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