Famous Avernus Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Avernus poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous avernus poems. These examples illustrate what a famous avernus poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Children - Sheila Pritchard my genius child-poet with
Her roguish eye and high bright voice, drawing skulls
In Avernus and burning white chrysanthemums, teasing me
With her long legs and gold salmon-flecked eyes.
It was a surprise when I made it into Penguin Books;
Michael Horovitz busy then as now and madly idealistic
As me; getting ready for the Albert Hall jamboree,
The rainbow bomb of peace and poetry....Read more of this...
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Tebb, Barry
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"Going down the long ladder unguarded,
"I fell against the buttress,
"Shattered the nape-nerve, the soul sought Avernus.
"But thou, O King, I bid remember me, unwept, unburied,
"Heap up mine arms, be tomb by sea-bord, and inscribed:
"A man of no fortune, and with a name to come.
"And set my oar up, that I swung mid fellows."
And Anticlea came, whom I beat off, and then Tiresias Theban,
Holding his golden wand, knew me, and spoke first:
"A second time? why...Read more of this...
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Pound, Ezra
.../SPAN>Seeks, in bright realms above, her parent starFrom grisly Styx and black Avernus far. Macgregor....Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...and self-sufficient might
Led the arch further through the future's night:
Then, too, ye plunged, without a fear,
Into Avernus' ocean black,
And found the vanished life so dear
Beyond the urn, and brought it back.
A blooming Pollux-form appeared now soon,
On Castor leaning, and enshrined in light--
The shadow that is seen upon the moon,
Ere she has filled her silvery circle bright!
Yet higher,--higher still above the earth
Inventive genius never ceased to rise:
Creation...Read more of this...
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Schiller, Friedrich von
...R>The Baian shore eastward; her foot she setThere on firm land, and did Avernus leaveOn the one hand, on th' other Sybil's cave;So to Linternus march'd, the village whereThe noble Africane lies buried; thereThe great news of her triumph did appearAs glorious to the eye as to the earRead more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
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