Famous Inevitability Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Ageing Schoolmaster

by Vernon Scannell
 And now another autumn morning finds me
With chalk dust on my sleeve and in my breath,
Preoccupied with vague, habitual speculation
On the huge inevitability of death.

Not wholly wretched, yet knowing absolutely
That I shall never reacquaint myself with joy,
I sniff the smell of ink and chalk and my mortality
And think of when I rolled, a gormless boy,

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