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Famous Egoist Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...Man, the egregious egoist
(In mystery the twig is bent)
Imagines, by some mental twist,
That he alone is sentient

Of the intolerable load
That on all living creatures lies,
Nor stoops to pity in the toad
The speechless sorrow of his eyes.

He asks no questions of the snake,
Nor plumbs the phosphorescent gloom
Where lidless fishes, broad awake,
Swim staring at a nightmare doom...Read more of this...
by Wylie, Elinor



...My love, and not I, is the egoist.

My love for thee loves itself more than thee;

Ay, more than me, in whom it doth exist,

And makes me live that it may feed on me.

In the country of bridges the bridge is

More real than the shores it doth unsever;

So in our world, all of Relation, this

Is true--that truer is Love than either lover.

This thought therefore comes l...Read more of this...
by Pessoa, Fernando

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