Famous Levant Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Home From Abroad

...Far-fetched with tales of other worlds and ways, 
My skin well-oiled with wines of the Levant, 
I set my face into a filial smile 
To greet the pale, domestic kiss of Kent. 

But shall I never learn? That gawky girl, 
Recalled so primly in my foreign thoughts, 
Becomes again the green-haired queen of love 
Whose wanton form dilates as it delights. 

Her rolling tidal landscape floods the eye 
And drowns Chianti in a dusky stream; 
he flower-fl...Read more of this...
by Lee, Laurie


Paradise Lost: Book 10

...m the south 
Notus, and Afer black with thunderous clouds 
From Serraliona; thwart of these, as fierce, 
Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds, 
Eurus and Zephyr, with their lateral noise, 
Sirocco and Libecchio. Thus began 
Outrage from lifeless things; but Discord first, 
Daughter of Sin, among the irrational 
Death introduced, through fierce antipathy: 
Beast now with beast 'gan war, and fowl with fowl, 
And fish with fish; to graze the herb all leaving, 
Devoured eac...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

The Alchemist in the City

...ss lore; 
But I desire the wilderness
Or weeded landslips of the shore.

I walk my breezy belvedere
To watch the low or levant sun, 
I see the city pigeons veer, 
I mark the tower swallows run

Between the tower-top and the ground
Below me in the bearing air; 
Then find in the horizon-round
One spot and hunger to be there.

And then I hate the most that lore
That holds no promise of success; 
Then sweetest seems the houseless shore, 
Then free and kind the wilderness, 

Or an...Read more of this...
by Hopkins, Gerard Manley

To John Hamilton Reynolds

...e
To serve ourjoys would lengthen and dilate.
O to arrive each Monday morn from Ind!
To land each Tuesday from the rich Levant!
In little time a host of joys to bind,
And keep our souls in one eternal pant!
This morn, my friend, and yester-evening taught
Me how to harbour such a happy thought....Read more of this...
by Keats, John

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