Famous Pettiness Poems by Famous Poets

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

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The Satrapy

by Constantine P Cavafy
 What a misfortune, although you are made
for fine and great works
this unjust fate of yours always
denies you encouragement and success;
that base customs should block you;
and pettiness and indifference.
And how terrible the day when you yield
(the day when you give up and yield),
and you leave on foot for Susa,
and you go to the monarch Artaxerxes
who favorably places you in his...Read more of this...

Pettiness

by Ehsan Sehgal
Those who treat others with contempt display their own pettiness.

Ehsan Sehgal...Read more of this...

Snake

by D. H. Lawrence
 A snake came to my water-trough
On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat,
To drink there.
In the deep, strange-scented shade of the great dark carob-tree
I came down the steps with my pitcher
And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough before
me.

He reached down from a fissure in the earth-wall in the...Read more of this...

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