Famous Contingency Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Contingency poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous contingency poems. These examples illustrate what a famous contingency poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Whitman, Walt
...ut well for us, and without luck must
be a
failure for us,
And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain contingency.
The light and shade, the curious sense of body and identity, the greed that with perfect
complaisance devours all things, the endless pride and out-stretching of man, unspeakable
joys
and
sorrows,
The wonder every one sees in every one else he sees, and the wonders that fill each minute
of
time
forever,
What have you reckon’d them...Read more of this...
by
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...cean-fords,
Whilst, to the eye of shipwreck'd mariner,
Lone sitting on the bare and shuddering rock,
All seems unlink'd contingency and chance,
No atom of this turbulence fulfils
A vague and unnecessitated task,
Or acts but as it must and ought to act.
Even the minutest molecule of light,
That in an April sunbeam's fleeting glow
Fulfils its destin'd, though invisible work,
The universal Spirit guides; nor less,
When merciless ambition, or mad zeal,
Has led two hosts of du...Read more of this...
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