Home » Famous Poems » Best » Rebuffs

Best Famous Rebuffs Poems

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

Search and read the best famous Rebuffs poems, articles about Rebuffs poems, poetry blogs, or anything else Rebuffs poem related using the PoetrySoup search engine at the top of the page.

Me Imperturbe

 ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature, 
Master of all, or mistress of all—aplomb in the midst of irrational things, 
Imbued as they—passive, receptive, silent as they, 
Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less important than I thought;

Me private, or public, or menial, or solitary—all these subordinate, (I am eternally
 equal
 with
 the best—I am not subordinate;)
Me toward the Mexican Sea, or in the Mannahatta, or the Tennessee, or far north, or
 inland, 
A river man, or a man of the woods, or of any farm-life in These States, or of the coast,
 or
 the
 lakes, or Kanada, 
Me, wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies! 
O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and
 animals do.

Written by Alan Seeger |

Sonnet 08

 Oh, love of woman, you are known to be 
A passion sent to plague the hearts of men; 
For every one you bring felicity 
Bringing rebuffs and wretchedness to ten. 
I have been oft where human life sold cheap 
And seen men's brains spilled out about their ears 
And yet that never cost me any sleep; 
I lived untroubled and I shed no tears. 
Fools prate how war is an atrocious thing; 
I always knew that nothing it implied 
Equalled the agony of suffering 
Of him who loves and loves unsatisfied. 
War is a refuge to a heart like this; 
Love only tells it what true torture is.