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Famous Reason Out Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...wn that you have known 
There was a reason waited on your coming, 
And, if it’s in me to see clear enough, 
To fish the reason out of a black well 
Where you see only a dim sort of glimmer
That has for you no light.” 

“I see the well,” 
I said, “but there’s a doubt about the glimmer— 
Say nothing of the light. I’m at your service; 
And though you say that I shall not be happy,
I shall be if in some way I may serve. 
To tell you fairly now that I know nothing 
Is ...Read more of this...



by Laurence Dunbar, Paul
..., huhuh, chile,
Dis worl' 's done puzzled me one w'ile;
I 's mighty skeered I 'll fall in doubt,
I des' won't try to reason out
De reason why folks strive an' plan
A dinnah fu' a full-fed man,
An' shet de do' an' cross de street
F'om one dat raaly needs to eat.
...Read more of this...

by Rilke, Rainer Maria
...ght,
laughs without reason in the night,
laughs at me.

Whoever now wanders somewhere in the world,
wanders without reason out in the world,
wanders toward me.

Whoever now dies somewhere in the world,
dies without reason in the world,
looks at me....Read more of this...

by Drayton, Michael
...
Thought it in weight too light by many'a grain. 
Reason, put back, doth out of sight remove, 
And Love alone picks reason out of love....Read more of this...

by Chesterton, G K
...about the dead. 

The sages have a hundred maps to give 
That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree, 
They rattle reason out through many a sieve 
That stores the sand and lets the gold go free: 
And all these things are less than dust to me 
Because my name is Lazarus and I live....Read more of this...



by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
...d, 
Black-drawn against wild red, 
He may have built, unawed by fiery gules
That in him no commotion stirred, 
A living reason out of molecules 
Why molecules occurred, 
And one for smiling when he might have sighed 
Had he seen far enough,
And in the same inevitable stuff 
Discovered an odd reason too for pride 
In being what he must have been by laws 
Infrangible and for no kind of cause. 
Deterred by no confusion or surprise
He may have seen with his mechanic eyes 
A w...Read more of this...

by Service, Robert William
...I lie.
And yet . . . I almost laughed -- it seemed so odd,
For long and long had I not vainly tried
To reason out and body forth my God,
And prayed for light, and doubted -- and denied:
Denied the Being I could not conceive,
Denied a life-to-be beyond the grave. . . .
And now they ask me, who do not believe,
Just to deny, to voice my doubt, to save
This life of mine that sings so in the sun,
The bloom of youth yet red upon my cheek,
My only li...Read more of this...

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