Famous Fata Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Fata poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous fata poems. These examples illustrate what a famous fata poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
...O sweet illusions of song
That tempt me everywhere,
In the lonely fields, and the throng
Of the crowded thoroughfare!
I approach and ye vanish away,
I grasp you, and ye are gone;
But ever by night and by day,
The melody soundeth on.
As the weary traveller sees
In desert or prairie vast,
Blue lakes, overhung with trees
That a pleasant shadow cast;
Fa...Read more of this...
by
Alighieri, Dante
...tu ti fide;
non t'inganni l'ampiezza de l'intrare!».
E 'l duca mio a lui: «Perch? pur gride?
Non impedir lo suo fatale andare:
vuolsi cos? col? dove si puote
ci? che si vuole, e pi? non dimandare».
Or incomincian le dolenti note
a farmisi sentire; or son venuto
l? dove molto pianto mi percuote.
Io venni in loco d'ogne luce muto,
che mugghia come fa mar per tempesta,
se da contrari venti ? combattuto.
La bufera infernal, che mai non resta,
mena...Read more of this...
by
Hayden, Robert
...,
their bright ironical names
like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth;
plough through thrashing glister toward
fata morgana's lucent melting shore,
weave toward New World littorals that are
mirage and myth and actual shore.
Voyage through death,
voyage whose chartings are unlove.
A charnel stench, effluvium of living death
spreads outward from the hold,
where the living and the dead, the horribly dying,
lie interlocked, lie foul with blood and excre...Read more of this...
by
Smith, Stevie
...Never again will I weep
And wring my hands
And beat my head against the wall
Because
Me nolentem fata trahunt
But
When I have had enough
I will arise
And go unto my Father
And I will say to Him:
Father, I have had enough....Read more of this...
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