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Famous Deficience Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Deficience poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous deficience poems. These examples illustrate what a famous deficience poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...of thy eternal ways 
All human thoughts come short, Supreme of things! 
Thou in thyself art perfect, and in thee 
Is no deficience found: Not so is Man, 
But in degree; the cause of his desire 
By conversation with his like to help 
Or solace his defects. No need that thou 
Shouldst propagate, already Infinite; 
And through all numbers absolute, though One: 
But Man by number is to manifest 
His single imperfection, and beget 
Like of his like, his image multiplied, 
In unity...Read more of this...
by Milton, John



...decay, and baleful blights, 
 Distress into delights?" 

IV 

- "Ah! know'st thou not her secret yet, her vainly veiled deficience, 
 Whence it comes that all unwittingly she wounds the lives she 
loves? 
 That sightless are those orbs of hers?--which bar to her 
omniscience 
Brings those fearful unfulfilments, that red ravage through her zones 
 Whereat all creation groans. 

V 

"She whispers it in each pathetic strenuous slow endeavour, 
 When in mothering she unwittingly ...Read more of this...
by Hardy, Thomas

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