Famous Unaccountable Poems by Famous Poets

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Crime and Punishment chapter XII

...yet removed not the stumbling stone. 

And this also, though the word lie heavy upon your hearts: 

The murdered is not unaccountable for his own murder, 

And the robbed is not blameless in being robbed. 

The righteous is not innocent of the deeds of the wicked, 

And the white-handed is not clean in the doings of the felon. 

Yea, the guilty is oftentimes the victim of the injured, 

And still more often the condemned is the burden-bearer for the guiltless and unblamed. 

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by Gibran, Kahlil


Poem Of Night

...eekbone,
A curved piece of brow,
A pale eyelid
Float in the dark,
And now I make out
An eye, dark,
Wormed with far-off, unaccountable lights.

4

Hardly touching, I hold
What I can only think of
As some deepest of memories in my arms,
Not mine, but as if the life in me
Were slowly remembering what it is.

You lie here now in your physicalness,
This beautiful degree of reality.

5

And now the day, raft that breaks up, comes on.

I think of a few bones
Floating on a river at n...Read more of this...
by Kinnell, Galway

Rembrandt to Rembrandt

...may have gone meanwhile
So greatly to the dogs that you’ll not care 
Much what they find. If this be all you are— 
This unaccountable aspiring insect— 
You’ll sleep as easy in oblivion 
As any sacred monk or parricide;
And if, as you conceive, you are eternal, 
Your soul may laugh, remembering (if a soul 
Remembers) your befrenzied aspiration 
To smear with certain ochres and some oil 
A few more perishable ells of cloth,
And once or twice, to square your vanity, 
Prove it wa...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Edwin Arlington

When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer

...ure them; 
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the
 lecture-room, 
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, 
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, 
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars....Read more of this...
by Whitman, Walt

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