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Famous Fil Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Breton, Andre
...spoir. Un collier de perles pour lequel on ne saurait
trouver de fermoir et dont l'existence ne tient pas m?me ? un fil, voil? le d?sespoir.
Le reste, nous n'en parlons pas. Nous n'avons pas fini de des?sp?rer, si nous
commen?ons. Moi je d?sesp?re de l'abat-jour vers quatre heures, je d?sesp?re de
l'?ventail vers minuit, je d?sesp?re de la cigarette des condamn?s. Je connais le
d?sespoir dans ses grandes lignes. Le d?sespoir n'a pas de coeur, la main r...Read more of this...



by Alighieri, Dante
...n voce che in vista lucenti:
 cos? cinger la figlia di Latona
vedem talvolta, quando l'aere ? pregno,
s? che ritenga il fil che fa la zona.
 Ne la corte del cielo, ond'io rivegno,
si trovan molte gioie care e belle
tanto che non si posson trar del regno;
 e 'l canto di quei lumi era di quelle;
chi non s'impenna s? che l? s? voli,
dal muto aspetti quindi le novelle.
 Poi, s? cantando, quelli ardenti soli
si fuor girati intorno a noi tre volte,
come stelle vicine a' fer...Read more of this...

by Lear, Edward
...
There was an old man of Spithead,Who opened the window, and said,—"Fil-jomble, fil-jumble, fil-rumble-come-tumble!"That doubtful old man of Spithead. ...Read more of this...

by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...diverse wyse and oon entente,
The ravisshing to wreken of Eleyne,
By Paris doon, they wroughten al hir peyne.

Now fil it so, that in the toun ther was
Dwellinge a lord of greet auctoritee, 
A gret devyn that cleped was Calkas,
That in science so expert was, that he
Knew wel that Troye sholde destroyed be,
By answere of his god, that highte thus,
Daun Phebus or Apollo Delphicus. 

So whan this Calkas knew by calculinge,
And eek by answere of this Appollo,
That Grekes...Read more of this...

by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...ottes kene,
That, coude he never so wel of loving preche,
It made his hewe a-day ful ofte grene; 
So shoop it, that hym fil that day a tene
In love, for which in wo to bedde he wente,
And made, er it was day, ful many a wente.

The swalwe Proigne, with a sorwful lay,
Whan morwe com, gan make hir waymentinge, 
Why she forshapen was; and ever lay
Pandare a-bedde, half in a slomeringe,
Til she so neigh him made hir chiteringe
How Tereus gan forth hir suster take,
That with t...Read more of this...



by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...she that may yow do gladnesse, 
For every wo ye shal recovere a blisse';
And him in armes took, and gan him kisse.

Fil Pandarus on knees, and up his eyen
To hevene threw, and held his hondes hye,
'Immortal god!' quod he, 'That mayst nought dyen, 
Cupide I mene, of this mayst glorifye;
And Venus, thou mayst maken melodye;
With-outen hond, me semeth that in the towne,
For this merveyle, I here ech belle sowne.

'But ho! No more as now of this matere, 
For-why this folk...Read more of this...

by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...saw him first with eyen tweyne,
That causeth me, and I him, al this peyne!'

Therwith the teres from hir eyen two 
Doun fille, as shour in Aperill ful swythe;
Hir whyte brest she bet, and for the wo
After the deeth she cryed a thousand sythe,
Sin he that wont hir wo was for to lythe,
She mot for-goon; for which disaventure 
She held hir-self a forlost creature.

She seyde, 'How shal he doon, and I also?
How sholde I live, if that I from him twinne?
O dere herte eek, that ...Read more of this...

by Chaucer, Geoffrey
..., pale, and grene
Shal been your fresshe wommanliche face
For langour, er ye torne un-to this place.' 

And whan he fil in any slomeringes,
Anoon biginne he sholde for to grone,
And dremen of the dredfulleste thinges
That mighte been; as, mete he were allone
In place horrible, makinge ay his mone, 
Or meten that he was amonges alle
His enemys, and in hir hondes falle.

And ther-with-al his body sholde sterte,
And with the stert al sodeinliche awake,
And swich a tremou...Read more of this...

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