Famous Disproportions Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Paradise Lost: Book 08

...night; in all her vast survey 
Useless besides; reasoning I oft admire, 
How Nature wise and frugal could commit 
Such disproportions, with superfluous hand 
So many nobler bodies to create, 
Greater so manifold, to this one use, 
For aught appears, and on their orbs impose 
Such restless revolution day by day 
Repeated; while the sedentary Earth, 
That better might with far less compass move, 
Served by more noble than herself, attains 
Her end without least motion, and rec...Read more of this...
by Milton, John


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