Famous Pretexts Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Diversity of creed divides the human race into about

by Omar Khayyam
Diversity of creed divides the human race into about
seventy-two sects. Amongst all these dogmas, I have
chosen that of Thy love. What signify these words:
Impiety, Islamism, creed, sin? My true aim is to seek
Thee. Far be from me all these vain, indifferent pretexts.
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Ad Se Ipsum

by Robert Louis Stevenson
 DEAR sir, good-morrow! Five years back,
When you first girded for this arduous track,
And under various whimsical pretexts
Endowed another with your damned defects,
Could you have dreamed in your despondent vein
That the kind God would make your path so plain?
Non nobis, domine! O, may He still
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