10 Best Famous Stupefaction Poems

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

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Fragment at Tunbridge-Wells

by Anne Kingsmill Finch
 FOR He, that made, must new create us,
Ere Seneca, or Epictetus, 
With all their serious Admonitions,
Can, for the Spleen, prove good Physicians. 
The Heart's unruly Palpitation
Will not be laid by a Quotation;
Nor will the Spirits move the lighter
For the most celebrated Writer.
Sweats, Swoonings, and convulsive Motions
Will not be cur'd by Words, and Notions. 

Then live, old Brown! with thy Chalybeats,
Which keep us from becoming Idiots.
At Tunbridge let us still be Drinking, 
Though 'tis the Antipodes to Thinking:
Such Hurry, whilst the Spirit's flying,
Such Stupefaction, when 'tis dying;
Yet these, and not sententious Papers,
Must brighten Life, and cure the Vapours

That vault of heaven, under which we reel, we might,

by Omar Khayyam
That vault of heaven, under which we reel, we might,
in thought, liken to a lantern. The universe is the lantern.
The sun represents the light, and we, like the
images with which the lantern is ornamented, dwell there
in stupefaction.

There is not a night when my mind is not in a state of

by Omar Khayyam
There is not a night when my mind is not in a state of
stupefaction. There is not one when my breast is not
inundated with pearls that flow from my eyes. The disquiet
which possesses me keeps the bowl of my head from
filling itself with wine, can a bowl overturned ever be
filled?
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