Famous Curtailing Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Curtailing poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous curtailing poems. These examples illustrate what a famous curtailing poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...Happy the maimed, the halt, the mad, the blind--
All who, stamped separate by curtailing birth,
Owe no duty's allegiance to mankind
Nor stand a valuing in their scheme of worth!
But I, whom Fate, not Nature, did curtail,
By no exterior voidness being exempt,
Must bear accusing glances where I fail,
Fixed in the general orbit of contempt.
Fate, less than Nature in being kind to lacking,
Giving the ill, shows not...Read more of this...
by
Pessoa, Fernando
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