Famous Europa Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Europa poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous europa poems. These examples illustrate what a famous europa poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Tebb, Barry
...your straw-gold hair
The colour of lank
February grass?
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Under the stone canopy
Of the Grand Arcade
I pass Europa Nightclub;
In black designer glass
I watch the faces pass
But none is like your’s,
No voice, no eyes,
No smile at all
Like your’s.
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From Kirkstall Lock
The rhubarb crop
To Knostrop’s forcing sheds
The roots ploughed up
Arranged in beds
Of perfect darkness
Where the buds burst
With a pip, rich pink
Stalks and yellow leaves
...Read more of this...
by
Yeats, William Butler
...sailors say:
All those dreadful thunder-stones,
All that storm that blots the day
Can but show that Heaven yawns;
Great Europa played the fool
That changed a lover for a bull.
Fol de rol, fol de rol.
To round that shell's elaborate whorl,
Adorning every secret track
With the delicate mother-of-pearl,
Made the joints of Heaven crack:
So never hang your heart upon
A roaring, ranting journeyman.
Fol de rol, fol de rol....Read more of this...
by
Marlowe, Christopher
...a brazen tower,
147 Jove slyly stealing from his sister's bed,
148 To dally with Idalian Ganimed,
149 And for his love Europa bellowing loud,
150 And tumbling with the rainbow in a cloud;
151 Blood-quaffing Mars heaving the iron net,
152 Which limping Vulcan and his Cyclops set;
153 Love kindling fire, to burn such towns as Troy,
154 Sylvanus weeping for the lovely boy
155 That now is turn'd into a cypress tree,
156 Under whose shade the wood-gods love to be.
157 And in ...Read more of this...
by
St Vincent Millay, Edna
...
Danai, that was the vessel for a day
Of golden Jove, I saw, and at her side,
Whom Jove the Bull desired and bore away,
Europa stood, and the Swan's featherless bride.
All these were mortal women, yet all these
Above the ground had had a god for guest;
Freely I walked beside them and at ease,
Addressing them, by them again addressed,
And marvelled nothing, for remembering you,
Wherefore I was among them well I knew....Read more of this...
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Alighieri, Dante
...rso del ciel, ch'ella seguio
dietro a l'antico che Lavina tolse,
cento e cent'anni e pi? l'uccel di Dio
ne lo stremo d'Europa si ritenne,
vicino a' monti de' quai prima usc?o;
e sotto l'ombra de le sacre penne
govern? 'l mondo l? di mano in mano,
e, s? cangiando, in su la mia pervenne.
Cesare fui e son Iustiniano,
che, per voler del primo amor ch'i' sento,
d'entro le leggi trassi il troppo e 'l vano.
E prima ch'io a l'ovra fossi attento,
una natura in Cristo esser...Read more of this...
by
Alighieri, Dante
...tai l'amor che qui raffina».
«Oh!», diss'io lui, «per li vostri paesi
già mai non fui; ma dove si dimora
per tutta Europa ch'ei non sien palesi?
La fama che la vostra casa onora,
grida i segnori e grida la contrada,
sì che ne sa chi non vi fu ancora;
e io vi giuro, s'io di sopra vada,
che vostra gente onrata non si sfregia
del pregio de la borsa e de la spada.
Uso e natura sì la privilegia,
che, perché il capo reo il mondo torca,
sola va dritta e 'l mal cammin dis...Read more of this...
by
Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns)
...one more member than could actually be counted.
367-77. Cf. Hermann Hesse, Blick ins Chaos:
"Schon ist halb Europa, schon ist zumindest der halbe Osten Europas auf
dem
Wege zum Chaos, fährt betrunken im heiligem Wahn am Abgrund entlang
und singt dazu, singt betrunken und hymnisch wie Dmitri Karamasoff sang.
Ueber diese Lieder lacht der Bürger beleidigt, der Heilige
und Seher hört sie mit Tränen."
402. "Datta, dayadhvam, damyata" (Give, sympathize,
cont...Read more of this...
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