Famous Homeland Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Homeland poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous homeland poems. These examples illustrate what a famous homeland poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Fu, Du
...her-hurried dispatches. The fish and dragons are still and silent, the autumn river cold, A peaceful life in my homeland always in my thoughts....Read more of this...
by
Rilke, Rainer Maria
...nse. And lovers,
are they not forever invading one another's
boundaries? -although they promised space,
hunting and homeland. Then, for a sketch
drawn at a moment's impulse, a ground of contrast
is prepared, painfully, so that we may see.
For they are most exact with us. We do not know
the contours of our feelings. We only know
what shapes them from the outside.
Who has not sat, afraid, before his own heart's
curtain? It lifted and displayed the sce...Read more of this...
by
Hikmet, Nazim
...om China:
The dragon that came down from the Kaf mountains
has spread his wings
across the golden skies of the Chinese homeland.
But
in this business it's not only the British lord's
gullet shaved
like the thick neck
of a plucked hen
that will be cut
but also
the long
thin
beard of Confucius!
FROM GIOCONDA'S DIARY
21 April
Today my Chinese
looked my straight
in the eye
and asked:
"Those who crush our rice fields
with the caterpillar treads of their tanks
an...Read more of this...
by
Borges, Jorge Luis
...eno, infinite words.
She took shape from Latin hexameters
and the terror of Pascal.
Luis de Leon saw in her the homeland
of his stricken soul.
Now we feel her to be inexhaustible
like an ancient wine
and no one can gaze on her without vertigo
and time has charged her with eternity.
And to think that she wouldn't exist
except for those fragile instruments, the eyes....Read more of this...
by
Darwish, Mahmoud
...e court of blood
So that I could break the rule.
I learnt all the words and broke them up
To make a single word: Homeland........Read more of this...
by
Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad
...0cm 0pt;"> by streams and gentle rain? The drop that left its homeland, the sea, and then returned ? It found an oyster waiting and grew into a pearl. Did Yusaf not leave his father, Read more of this...
by
Cavafy, Constantine P
...died,
he whispered something about "home," about "very old parents."
But who these were nobody knew,
nor which his homeland in the vast panhellenic world.
Better so. For thus, although
he lies dead in this harbor,
his parents will always hope he is alive....Read more of this...
by
Hughes, Langston
...al, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the ***** bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat do...Read more of this...
by
Cavafy, Constantine P
...factor, and villainies, et cetera.
Therefore I believe that I am fully
qualified to serve this country,
my beloved homeland Syria.
In whatever capacity they place me I shall strive
to be useful to the country. This is my intent.
Then again, if they thwart me with their methods --
we know those able people: need we talk about it now?
if they thwart me, I am not to blame.
First, I shall apply to Zabinas,
and if this moron does not appreciate me,
I shall g...Read more of this...
by
Fu, Du
..."gloss"> Garrison drum cut person movement Autumn border one goose sound Dew from today night white Moon is homeland bright Have brother all disperse No home ask die life Send letter all not reach Particularly as not stop fighting The army drums cut off human travel, A lone goose sounds on the borderland in autumn. Tonight we start the season of White Dew, The moon is just as bright as in my homeland...Read more of this...
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