Famous Incredulity Poems by Famous Poets

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

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On A Dissembler

by William Strode
 Could any shewe where Plynyes people dwell
Whose head stands in their breast; who cannot tell
A smoothing lye because their open hart
And lippes are joyn'd so neare, I would depart
As quick as thought, and there forgett the wrongs
Which I have suffer'd by deceitfull tongues.
I should depart where soules departed bee,
Who being freed from cloudy flesh, can see
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The distance which separates incredulity from faith is

by Omar Khayyam
The distance which separates incredulity from faith is
but a breath,—that which separates doubt from certainty
is equally but a breath. Let us, then, pass this precious
space of a breath gaily, for our life also is only separated
[from death] by the space of a breath.
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