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Famous Myopic Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...t's all right here
Very clear.
O for my reputations sake
To be difficult and opaque!

No-one explains me because
Though myopic, I see plain.
I just put it down
With a leer and a frown...
Why does it make you sweat?
Is this the thanks I get?

No-one explains me because
There are tears in my bawdy song.
Once I am dead
Something will be said.
How nice I won't be here
To see how they get it wrong....Read more of this...
by Kizer, Carolyn



...itman


Me clairvoyant, 
Me conscious of you, old camarado, 
Needing no telescope, lorgnette, field-glass, opera-glass, myopic pince-nez, 
Me piercing two thousand years with eye naked and not ashamed; 
The crown cannot hide you from me, 
Musty old feudal-heraldic trappings cannot hide you from me, 
I perceive that you drink. 
(I am drinking with you. I am as drunk as you are.) 
I see you are inhaling tobacco, puffing, smoking, spitting 
(I do not object to your spitting), 
Y...Read more of this...
by Chesterton, G K

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