Famous World Weary Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Elysium

by Friedrich von Schiller
 Past the despairing wail--
And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale
Melt every care away!
Delight, that breathes and moves forever,
Glides through sweet fields like some sweet river!
Elysian life survey!
There, fresh with youth, o'er jocund meads,
His merry west-winds blithely leads
The ever-blooming May!
Through gold-woven dreams goes the dance of the hours,
In space without bounds swell the soul and its powers,
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The Theory

by Russell Edson
 The big one went to sleep as to die and dreamed he
became a tiny one. So tiny as to have lost all substance. To have
become as theoretical as a point. 

 Then someone said, get up, big one, you're not doing
yourself any good. You puddle and stagnate in your weight.
Best to be up and toward. It irrigates you. 

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The Goat And I

by Robert William Service
 Each sunny day upon my way
 A goat I pass;
He has a beard of silver grey,
 A bell of brass.
And all the while I am in sight
 He seems to muse,
And stares at me with all his might
 And chews and chews.

Upon the hill so thymy sweet
 With joy of Spring,
He hails me with a tiny bleat
 Of welcoming.
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