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Famous Lucia Poems by Famous Poets

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...Thou see'st me, Lucia, this year droop;
Three zodiacs fill'd more, I shall stoop;
Let crutches then provided be
To shore up my debility:
Then, while thou laugh'st, I'll sighing cry,
A ruin underpropt am I:
Don will I then my beadsman's gown;
And when so feeble I am grown
As my weak shoulders cannot bear
The burden of a grasshopper;
Yet with the bench of aged sires,
When I a...Read more of this...
by Herrick, Robert



...e power to see 
 His judgments, and to break them. This sharp 
 I tell thee, when she saw, she called, that so 
 Leaned Lucia toward her while she spake - and said, 
 "One that is faithful to thy name is sped, 
 Except that now ye aid him." She thereat, 
 - Lucia, to all men's wrongs inimical - 
 Left her High Place, and crossed to where I sat 
 In speech with Rachel (of the first of all 
 God saved). "O Beatrice, Praise of God," 
 - So said she to me - "sitt'st thou here so ...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante
...il nel ciel che si compiange

di questo 'mpedimento ov'io ti mando,

s? che duro giudicio l? s? frange.

 Questa chiese Lucia in suo dimando

e disse: - Or ha bisogno il tuo fedele

di te, e io a te lo raccomando -.

 Lucia, nimica di ciascun crudele,

si mosse, e venne al loco dov'i' era,

che mi sedea con l'antica Rachele.

 Disse: - Beatrice, loda di Dio vera,

ch? non soccorri quei che t'am? tanto,

ch'usc? per te de la volgare schiera?

 non odi tu la pieta del suo piant...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante
...ne 
who weeps for the distress toward which I send you, 
so that stern judgment up above is shattered. 


Questa chiese Lucia in suo dimando 
e disse: - Or ha bisogno il tuo fedele 
di te, e io a te lo raccomando -. 

And it was she who called upon Lucia, 
requesting of her: "Now your faithful one 
has need of you, and I commend him to you." 


Lucia, nimica di ciascun crudele, 
si mosse, e venne al loco dov'i' era, 
che mi sedea con l'antica Rachele . 

Lucia, enemy of every...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante
...around Pleasanton in the

Livermore Valley probably had looked a lot better to George

than the wild side of the Santa Lucia Mountains.

 My friend's place was a shack right beside a huge fire-

place where there had once been a great mansion during the

1920s, built by a famous movie actor. The mansion was built

before there was even a road down at Big Sur. The mansion

had been brought over the mountains on the backs of mules,

strung out like ants, bringing visions of th...Read more of this...
by Brautigan, Richard



...ede al giorno,
quando l'anima tua dentro dormia,
sovra li fiori ond'è là giù addorno
 venne una donna, e disse: "I' son Lucia;
lasciatemi pigliar costui che dorme;
sì l'agevolerò per la sua via".
 Sordel rimase e l'altre genti forme;
ella ti tolse, e come 'l dì fu chiaro,
sen venne suso; e io per le sue orme.
 Qui ti posò, ma pria mi dimostraro
li occhi suoi belli quella intrata aperta;
poi ella e 'l sonno ad una se n'andaro».
 A guisa d'uom che 'n dubbio si raccerta
e che mu...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante
...utcries of La Revolucion! 
"San Salvador, pray for us,St. Thomas, San Domingo, 
ora pro nobis, intercede for us, Sancta Lucia 
of no eyes," and when the circular chaplet 
reached the last black bead of Sancta Trinidad 
they began again, their knees drilled into stone, 
where Colon had begun, with San Salvador's bead, 
beads of black colonies round the necks of Indians. 
And while they prayed for an economic miracle, 
ulcers formed on the municipal portraits, 
the hotels went ...Read more of this...
by Walcott, Derek
...'s dirty shift billows upward out of an alley,
A cat runs from the wind as we do,
Between the whitening trees, up Santa Lucia,
Where the heavy door unlocks,
And our breath comes more easy--
Then a crack of thunder, and the black rain runs over us, over
The flat-roofed houses, coming down in gusts, beating
The walls, the slatted windows, driving
The last watcher indoors, moving the cardplayers closer
To their cards, their anisette.

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We creep to our bed, and its straw mattre...Read more of this...
by Herbert, George
...I dreamed this mortal part of mine
Was metamorphosed to a vine,
Which, crawling one and every way,
Enthralled my dainty Lucia.
Methought, her long small legs and thighs
I with my tendrils did surprise:
Her belley, buttocks, and her waist
By my soft nervelets were embraced
About her head I writhing hung
And with rich clusters (hid Amoung
The leaves) her temples i behung,
So that my Lucia seemed to me
Young Bacchus ravished by his tree.
My curls about her neck did crawl,
ANd ar...Read more of this...
by Herrick, Robert
...at one for love, that other was for hate.
Luna her husband on an ev'ning late
Empoison'd had, for that she was his foe:
Lucia liquorish lov'd her husband so,
That, for he should always upon her think,
She gave him such a manner* love-drink, *sort of
That he was dead before it were the morrow:
And thus algates* husbands hadde sorrow. *always
Then told he me how one Latumeus
Complained to his fellow Arius
That in his garden growed such a tree,
On which he said how that his wive...Read more of this...
by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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