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Famous Oh Woe Is Me Poems by Famous Poets

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...O woe, woe, 
People are born and die, 
We also shall be dead pretty soon 
Therefore let us act as if we were 
dead already.

The bird sits on the hawthorn tree 
But he dies also, presently. 
Some lads get hung, and some get shot. 
Woeful is this human lot. 
Woe! woe, etcetera . . . .

London is a woeful place, 
Shropshire is much pleasanter. 
Then let us s...Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra



...I AM now,--what joy to hear it!--

Of the old magician rid;
And henceforth shall ev'ry spirit

Do whate'er by me is bid;

I have watch'd with rigour

All he used to do,

And will now with vigour

Work my wonders too.


Wander, wander

Onward lightly,

So that rightly

Flow the torrent,

And with teeming waters yonder

In the bath discharge its current!

An...Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...bsp; A woman in a scarlet cloak,  And to herself she cries,  "Oh misery! oh misery!  Oh woe is me! oh misery!" VII.   At all times of the day and night  This wretched woman thither goes,  And she is known to every star,  And every wind that blows;  And there beside the thorn she sits  When the blue day-light's in the skies,  And when the whirlwind's on the ...Read more of this...
by Wordsworth, William

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