Famous Nonentity Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Hymn to Lucifer

...oble passion, sun-souled Lucifer
Swept through the dawn colossal, swift aslant
On Eden's imbecile perimeter.
He blessed nonentity with every curse
And spiced with sorrow the dull soul of sense,
Breathed life into the sterile universe,
With Love and Knowledge drove out innocence
The Key of Joy is disobedience....Read more of this...
by Crowley, Aleister


On earth's green carpet many sleepers lie,

...any sleepers lie,
And hid beneath it others I descry,
And others, not yet come, or passed away,
People the desert of Nonentity!...Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

Slaves of vain wisdom and philosophy,

...Slaves of vain wisdom and philosophy,
Who toil at Being and Nonentity,
Parching your brains till they are like dry grapes,
Be wise in time, and drink grape-juice, like me!...Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

Two Lyrics From Kilroys Carnival: A Masque

...ers
Where all things still are seeds and far from flowers
And since they remain chained to the sea's powers
May wilt to nonentity or loll and arise to comedy
Or thrown into mere accident through irrelevant incident 
Dissipate all identity ceaselessly fragmented by the ocean's
 immense and intense, irresistible and insistent
 action,
Be scattered like the sand is, purposely and relentlessly,
Living in the summer resorts of the dead endlessly....Read more of this...
by Schwartz, Delmore

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