Famous Weltschmerz Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Weltschmerz poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous weltschmerz poems. These examples illustrate what a famous weltschmerz poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...... Still,
I fear that I will die as I have lived,
A long-nosed heathen playing with his scars,
A pagan killed by weltschmerz ... I remember,
Once when I stood with Hegel at a window,
I, being full of bubbling youth and coffee,
Spoke in symbolic tropes about the stars.
Something I said about "those high
Abodes of all the blest" provoked his temper.
"Abodes? The stars?" He froze me with a sneer,
"A light eruption on the firmament."
"But," cried romantic I, "is th...Read more of this...
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Untermeyer, Louis
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