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Best Famous Pessimist Poems

Here is a collection of the 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 | Create an image from this poem

A rhine-land drinking song

 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.


Written by Thomas Hardy | Create an image from this poem

Epitaph On A Pessimist

 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.

Book: Reflection on the Important Things