Famous Pessimist Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Pessimist poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous pessimist poems. These examples illustrate what a famous pessimist poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...and dreary,
'Tis made cool and cheery
With wining,
and wining,
and wining.
If this life that we live be a dreaming
(As pessimist people are thinking),
To induce pleasant dreams there is nothing, meseems,
Like this sweet prescription,
That baffles description--
This drinking,
and drinking,
and drinking....Read more of this...
by
Field, Eugene
...I'm Smith of Stoke aged sixty odd
I've lived without a dame all my life
And wish to God
My dad had done the same....Read more of this...
by
Hardy, Thomas
...This one sits shivering in Fortune’s smile,
Taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath.
This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while
Laughs in the teeth of Death....Read more of this...
by
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
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