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Famous Dulce Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
..., pend from arid rames;
His humid front the cive, anheling, wipes,
And dreams of erring on ventiferous ripes. 

How dulce to vive occult to mortal eyes,
Dorm on the herb with none to supervise,
Carp the suave berries from thc crescent vine,
And bibe the flow from longicaudate kine! 

To me, alas! no verdurous visions come,
Save yon exiguous pool's conferva-scum,--
No concave vast repeats the tender hue
That laves my milk-jug with celestial blue! 

Me wretched! Let me curr...Read more of this...



by Owen, Wilfred
...tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori....Read more of this...

by Pound, Ezra
..., in imagination,
learning later...
some in fear, learning love of slaughter;

Died some, pro patria,
 non "dulce" not "et decor"...
walked eye-deep in hell
believing old men's lies, then unbelieving
came home, home to a lie, 
home to many deceits,
home to old lies and new infamy;
usury age-old and age-thick
and liars in public places.

Daring as never before, wastage as never before.
Young blood and high blood,
fair cheeks, and fine bodies;

f...Read more of this...

by Pound, Ezra
...er, in imagination,
learning later ...

some in fear, learning love of slaughter;
Died some pro patria, non dulce non et decor" ..

walked eye-deep in hell
believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
came home, home to a lie,
home to many deceits,
home to old lies and new infamy;

usury age-old and age-thick
and liars in public places.

Daring as never before, wastage as never before.
Young blood and high blood,
Fair cheeks, and fine bodies;

for...Read more of this...

by Kilmer, Joyce
..."Dulce et decorum est"

The bugle echoes shrill and sweet,
But not of war it sings to-day.
The road is rhythmic with the feet
Of men-at-arms who come to pray.
The roses blossom white and red
On tombs where weary soldiers lie;
Flags wave above the honored dead
And martial music cleaves the sky.
Above their wreath-strewn graves we kneel,
They kept t...Read more of this...



by Agustini, Delmira
...i cuarto es una gruta de oro y gemas raras:Tiene un musgo tan suave, tan hondo de tapices,Y es tan vívida y cálida, tan dulce que me creoDentro de un corazón…    Mi lecho que está en blanco es blanco y vaporosoComo flor de inocencia,Como espuma de vicio!  Esta noche hace insomnio;Hay noches negras, negras, que llevan en la frenteUna rosa de sol…En estas noches negras y claras no se duerme.  Y yo te amo, Invierno!Yo te imagino viejo,Yo te imagino sabio,Con un divino cuerpo...Read more of this...

by García Lorca, Federico
...evantado
el viento que nunca duerme.
San Cristobal?n desnudo,
lleno de lenguas celestes,
mira a la ni?a tocando
una dulce gaita ausente.

 Ni?a, deja que levante
tu vestido para verte.
Abre en mi dedos antiguos
la rosa azul de tu vientre.

 Preciosa tira el pandero
y corre sin detenerse.
El viento-hombr?n la persigue
con una espada caliente.

 Frunce su rumor el mar.
Los olivos palidecen.
Cantan las flautas de umbr?a
y el liso gong de la nieve....Read more of this...

by Rich, Adrienne
...more often,
iron-eyed and beaked and purposed as a bird,
dusting everything on the whatnot every day of life.

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Dulce ridens, dulce loquens,
she shaves her legs until they gleam
like petrified mammoth-tusk.

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When to her lute Corinna sings
neither words nor music are her own;
only the long hair dipping 
over her cheek, only the song
of silk against her knees
and these 
adjusted in reflections of an eye.

Poised, trembling and unsatisfied, before
an unlocked...Read more of this...

by García Lorca, Federico
...tua sangre y pura luz brotando.
Grieta en que Filomela enmudecida
tendr? bosque, dolor y nido blando. 

?Ay qu? dulce rumor en mi cabeza!
Me tender? junto a la flor sencilla
donde flota sin alma tu belleza. 

Y el agua errante se pondr? amarilla,
mientras corre mi sangre en la maleza
mojada y olorosa de la orilla....Read more of this...

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