Famous Whole Truth Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Do You Want Affidavits?

...t the windows.
Shall I raise my right hand and swear to you in the monotone of a notary public? this is “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl


The Flight Of The Duchess

...melt blood with a cat-like instinct,
As her cheek quick whitened thro' all its quince-tinct.
Oh, but the lady heard the whole truth at once!
What meant she?--Who was she?---Her duty and station,
The wisdom of age and the folly of youth, at once,
Its decent regard and its fitting relation---
In brief, my friend, set all the devils in hell free
And turn them out to carouse in a belfry
And treat the priests to a fifty-part canon,
And then you may guess how that tongue of hers ra...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert

You ask me what is this phantasmagoria of things here

...You ask me what is this phantasmagoria of things here
below. To tell you the whole truth regarding it would
be too long: it is a fantastic image which comes out of
a vast sea, and which re-enters, later, the same vast sea.
337...Read more of this...
by Khayyam, Omar

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