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Famous Anima Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...a natura s? malvagia e ria,

che mai non empie la bramosa voglia,

e dopo 'l pasto ha pi? fame che pria.

 Molti son li animali a cui s'ammoglia,

e pi? saranno ancora, infin che 'l veltro

verr?, che la far? morir con doglia.

 Questi non ciber? terra n? peltro,

ma sapienza, amore e virtute,

e sua nazion sar? tra feltro e feltro.

 Di quella umile Italia fia salute

per cui mor? la vergine Cammilla,

Eurialo e Turno e Niso di ferute.

 Questi la caccer? per ogne villa,

fi...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante



...ualid, so malicious
that she can never sate her greedy will;
when she has fed, she's hungrier than ever.


Molti son li animali a cui s'ammoglia,
e pi? saranno ancora, infin che 'l veltro
verr?, che la far? morir con doglia .

She mates with many living souls and shall
yet mate with many more, until the Greyhound
arrives, inflicting painful death on her.


Questi non ciber? terra n? peltro,
ma sapienza, amore e virtute,
e sua nazion sar? tra feltro e feltro .

That Hound will...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante
...Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno 
toglieva li animai che sono in terra 
da le fatiche loro; e io sol uno 

The day was now departing; the dark air 
released the living beings of the earth 
from work and weariness; and I myself 


m'apparecchiava a sostener la guerra 
s? del cammino e s? de la pietate, 
che ritrarr? la mente che non erra . 

alone prepared to undergo the battle 
both of the journeying an...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante
...seeing Heaven: 
I come to lead you to the other shore, 
to the eternal dark, to fire and frost. 


E tu che se' cost?, anima viva, 
p?rtiti da cotesti che son morti». 
Ma poi che vide ch'io non mi partiva , 

And you approaching there, you living soul, 
keep well away from these-they are the dead." 
But when he saw I made no move to go, 


disse: «Per altra via, per altri porti 
verrai a piaggia, non qui, per passare: 
pi? lieve legno convien che ti porti ». 

he said: "Anot...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante
...gio,
mal conosciuto, che quivi traluce.
 Tu vuo' saper se con altro servigio,
per manco voto, si pu? render tanto
che l'anima sicuri di letigio».
 S? cominci? Beatrice questo canto;
e s? com'uom che suo parlar non spezza,
continu? cos? 'l processo santo:
 «Lo maggior don che Dio per sua larghezza
fesse creando, e a la sua bontate
pi? conformato, e quel ch'e' pi? apprezza,
 fu de la volont? la libertate;
di che le creature intelligenti,
e tutte e sole, fuoro e son dotate.
 Or ...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante



...costume che abbia la testa di fiume.
Guarda queste mie rive di giacinti!
Lascerò la mia bocca tra le tue gambe,
la mia anima in foto e fiordalisi, 
e nelle onde oscure del tuo passo io voglio,
amore mio, amore mio, lasciare,
violino e sepolcro, i nastri del valzer. 


English Translation

Little Viennese Waltz


In Vienna there are ten little girls 
a shoulder for death to cry on 
and a forest of dried pigeons. 
There is a fragment of tomorrow 
in the museum of winter frost....Read more of this...
by Jonson, Ben
...ti toglie
memoria o uso a l'amoroso canto
che mi solea quetar tutte mie doglie,
 di ciò ti piaccia consolare alquanto
l'anima mia, che, con la sua persona
venendo qui, è affannata tanto!».
 'Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona'
cominciò elli allor sì dolcemente,
che la dolcezza ancor dentro mi suona.
 Lo mio maestro e io e quella gente
ch'eran con lui parevan sì contenti,
come a nessun toccasse altro la mente.
 Noi eravam tutti fissi e attenti
a le sue note; ed ecco il veglio one...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante
...SONNET CLXXI. Anima, che diverse cose tante. HE REJOICES AT BEING ON EARTH WITH HER, AS HE IS THEREBY ENABLED BETTER TO IMITATE HER VIRTUES.  Soul! with such various faculties enduedTo think, write, speak, to read, to see, to hear;My doti...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco
...
That learned Father, who so firmly proves 
The Soul of man immortal and divine, 
And doth the several offices define: 
Anima - Gives her that name, as she the Body moves; 
Amor - Then is she Love, embracing charity; 
Animus - Moving a Will in us, it is the Mind 
Mens - Retaining knowledge, still the same in kind; 
Memoria - As intellectual, it is Memory; 
Ratio - In judging, Reason only is her name; 
Sensus - In speedy apprehension, it is Sense; 
Conscientia - In right or wr...Read more of this...
by Drayton, Michael
...SONNET XXIV. Quest' anima gentil che si diparte. ON LAURA DANGEROUSLY ILL.  That graceful soul, in mercy call'd awayBefore her time to bid the world farewell,If welcomed as she ought in the realms of day,In heaven's most b...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco
...SONNET XXXVII. Anima bella, da quel nodo sciolta. HE PRAYS LAURA TO LOOK DOWN UPON HIM FROM HEAVEN.  Bright spirit, from those earthly bonds released,The loveliest ever wove in Nature's loom,From thy bright skies compassionate the gloomRead more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco
..., from loss, from everyone.

Which are the paths I never ventured down,

Or would they, too, be vain?

O for the secret anima of Leeds girlhood

A thousand times better than snide attacks in the TLS

By ‘JC’. **** you, Jock, you should be ashamed,

Attacking Brenda Williams, who had a background

Worse than yours, an alcoholic schizophrenic father

And an Irish immigrant mother who died when Brenda was fifteen

But still she managed to read Proust on her day off

As a library...Read more of this...
by Tebb, Barry

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