Famous Fatalist Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Comedian As The Letter C

...ts eventual roundness, puerile tints 
505 Of spiced and weathery rouges, should complex 
506 The stopper to indulgent fatalist 
507 Was unforeseen. First Crispin smiled upon 
508 His goldenest demoiselle, inhabitant, 
509 She seemed, of a country of the capuchins, 
510 So delicately blushed, so humbly eyed, 
511 Attentive to a coronal of things 
512 Secret and singular. Second, upon 
513 A second similar counterpart, a maid 
514 Most sisterly to the first, not yet a...Read more of this...
by Stevens, Wallace


The Pearl Diver

...caught, go to prison -- let them take lugger and all!" 

Kanzo Makame, the diver -- knowing full well what it meant -- 
Fatalist, gambler, and stoic, smiled a broad smile of content, 
Flattened in mainsail and foresail, and off to the Islands they went. 

Close to the headlands they drifted, picking up shell by the ton, 
Piled up on deck were the oysters, opening wide in the sun, 
When, from the lee of the headland, boomed the report of a gun. 

Then if the diver was sighted,...Read more of this...
by Paterson, Andrew Barton

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