Famous Wasting Time Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Melancholetta

by Lewis Carroll
 With saddest music all day long
She soothed her secret sorrow:
At night she sighed "I fear 'twas wrong
Such cheerful words to borrow.
Dearest, a sweeter, sadder song
I'll sing to thee to-morrow." 

I thanked her, but I could not say
That I was glad to hear it:
I left the house at break of day,
And did not venture near it
Till time, I hoped, had...Read more of this...

A Dog Has Died

by Pablo Neruda
 My dog has died.
I buried him in the garden
next to a rusted old machine.

Some day I'll join him right there,
but now he's gone with his shaggy coat,
his bad manners and his cold nose,
and I, the materialist, who never believed
in any promised heaven in the sky
for any human being,
I believe in a heaven I'll never enter.
Yes, I believe in a...Read more of this...

Vulture

by Robinson Jeffers
 I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside
Above the ocean. I saw through half-shut eyelids a vulture wheeling
 high up in heaven,
And presently it passed again, but lower and nearer, its orbit
 narrowing,
 I understood then
That I was under inspection. I lay death-still and heard the flight-
 feathers
Whistle above me and make their...Read more of this...

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