Famous Leon Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Leon poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous leon poems. These examples illustrate what a famous leon poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Haxton, Brooks
...here,
volcano there, and numbers do not signify the dead,
each corpse incomprehensible as to the widow Klinghoffer
her Leon, shot, dumped overboard as if to make a point.
Westmoreland said, the Viet Cong could be indentified
from the attacking aircraft as all personnel in uniform
below. Their uniform, he told us, was the native dress....Read more of this...
by
Borges, Jorge Luis
...twelve houses;
to Zeno, 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
Schwartz, Delmore
...e Sacred Would")
At Temple Sholem on Lake Shore Drive
- Pavel Slavensky will chant the liturgical responses
And William Leon, having now thirteen years
will thank his parents that he exists
To celebrate his birthday of manhood, his chocolate
Bar Mitzvah, his yum-yum kippered herring, his Russian
Corona....Read more of this...
by
Alighieri, Dante
...hi la giustizia e lui diparte;
e non l'abbatta esto Carlo novello
coi Guelfi suoi, ma tema de li artigli
ch'a pi? alto leon trasser lo vello.
Molte fiate gi? pianser li figli
per la colpa del padre, e non si creda
che Dio trasmuti l'arme per suoi gigli!
Questa picciola stella si correda
di buoni spirti che son stati attivi
perch? onore e fama li succeda:
e quando li disiri poggian quivi,
s? disviando, pur convien che i raggi
del vero amore in s? poggin men vivi.
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by
Alighieri, Dante
...a
e nel mover de li occhi onesta e tarda!
Ella non ci dicea alcuna cosa,
ma lasciavane gir, solo sguardando
a guisa di leon quando si posa.
Pur Virgilio si trasse a lei, pregando
che ne mostrasse la miglior salita;
e quella non rispuose al suo dimando,
ma di nostro paese e de la vita
ci 'nchiese; e 'l dolce duca incominciava
«Mantua...», e l'ombra, tutta in sé romita,
surse ver' lui del loco ove pria stava,
dicendo: «O Mantoano, io son Sordello
de la tua t...Read more of this...
by
Lowell, Amy
..."Hullo, Alice!"
"Hullo, Leon!"
"Say, Alice, gi' me a couple
O' them two for five cigars,
Will yer?"
"Where's your nickel?"
"My! Ain't you close!
Can't trust a feller, can yer."
"Trust you! Why
What you owe this store
Would set you up in business.
I can't think why Father 'lows it."
"Yer Father's a sight more neighbourly
Than you be. That's a fact.
Besides, he kn...Read more of this...
by
Hugo, Victor
...
So, if my hap it be to see once more
Those scenes my footsteps tottered in before,
An infant follower in Napoleon's train:
Rodrigo's holds, Valencia and Leon,
And both Castiles, and mated Aragon;
Ne'er be it mine, O Spain!
To pass thy plains with cities scant between,
Thy stately arches flung o'er deep ravine,
Thy palaces, of Moor's or Roman's time;
Or the swift makings of thy Guadalquiver,
Save in those gilded cars, where bells forever
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