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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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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry
...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



...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
...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
...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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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry