Famous Coda Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Coda poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous coda poems. These examples illustrate what a famous coda poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...him with his baton
while the other musicians listen in respectful
silence to the famous barking dog solo,
that endless coda that first established
Beethoven as an innovative genius....Read more of this...
by
Collins, Billy
...There's little in taking or giving,
There's little in water or wine;
This living, this living, this living
Was never a project of mine.
Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is
The gain of the one at the top,
For art is a form of catharsis,
And love is a permanent flop,
And work is the province of cattle,
And rest's for a clam in a shell,
So I'm thinking of...Read more of this...
by
Parker, Dorothy
....
Incentive has its source in song
and winning in the sufferer.
Afford yourself what you can carry out.
A coward and a coda share a word.
We get our ugliness from fear.
We get our danger from the lord....Read more of this...
by
McHugh, Heather
...vien dinanzi, tutta si confessa;
e quel conoscitor de le peccata
vede qual loco d'inferno ? da essa;
cignesi con la coda tante volte
quantunque gradi vuol che gi? sia messa.
Sempre dinanzi a lui ne stanno molte;
vanno a vicenda ciascuna al giudizio;
dicono e odono, e poi son gi? volte.
«O tu che vieni al doloroso ospizio»,
disse Min?s a me quando mi vide,
lasciando l'atto di cotanto offizio,
«guarda com'entri e di cui tu ti fide;
non t'inganni l'ampiezza de l'...Read more of this...
by
Alighieri, Dante
...o valzer con la bocca chiusa.
Questo valzer, questo valzer, questo valzer,
di sì, di morte e di cognac
che si bagna la coda nel mare.
Io ti amo, io ti amo, io ti amo
con la poltrona e con il libro morto,
nel malinconico corridoio,
nell'oscura soffitta del giglio,
nel nostro letto della luna,
nella danza che sogna la tartaruga.
Ahi! Ahi! Ahi! Ahi!
Prendi questo valzer dalla spezzata cintura.
A Vienna ci sono quattro specchi,
vi giocano la tua bocca e gli echi.
C'è una...Read more of this...
by
Jonson, Ben
...r de le braccia del suo dolce amico;
di gemme la sua fronte era lucente,
poste in figura del freddo animale
che con la coda percuote la gente;
e la notte, de' passi con che sale,
fatti avea due nel loco ov'eravamo,
e 'l terzo già chinava in giuso l'ale;
quand'io, che meco avea di quel d'Adamo,
vinto dal sonno, in su l'erba inchinai
là 've già tutti e cinque sedavamo.
Ne l'ora che comincia i tristi lai
la rondinella presso a la mattina,
forse a memoria de' suo' primi guai,...Read more of this...
by
Alighieri, Dante
...elvet
Nudge. Cut a slow air-
Curve. Then dip (hip to hip):
Sway, swing, pedantically
Poise. Now recover,
Converting the coda
To prelude of sway-swing-
Recover.
Acknowledge
The drum-crack's alacrity -
Acrid exactitude -
Catch it, then slacken,
Then catch as cat catches
Rat. Trace your graph:
Loop, ellipse. Skirt an air-wall
To bend it and break it -
Thus - so -
As the drum speaks!...Read more of this...
by
Tessimond, A S J
...drunken boor;
But when I die—and that won't be soon—
I'll sing with dear Tom Moore,
With that lovely man, Tom Moore.
Coda:
My father never used a stick,
He slapped me with his hand;
He was a Prussian through and through
And knew how to command;
I ran behind him every day
He walked our greenhouse land.
I saw a figure in a cloud,
A child upon her breast,
And it was O, my mother O,
And she was half-undressed,
All women, O, are beautiful
When they are half-undressed....Read more of this...
by
Roethke, Theodore
...ngs.
Between choruses he sits apart
to light another cigarette,
a sideman counting out the bars
until he rises for the coda -
this Lazarus of swing....Read more of this...
by
Green, Adrian
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