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Famous Pianoforte Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Kipling, Rudyard
...means his double pay.

Now, ever after dinnger, when the coffee-cups are brought,
Ahasuerus waileth o'er the grand pianoforte;
And, thanks to fair Cornelia, his fame hath waxen great,
And Ahasuerus Jenkins is a Power in the State!...Read more of this...



by Jonson, Ben
...alla spezzata cintura.
A Vienna ci sono quattro specchi,
vi giocano la tua bocca e gli echi. 
C'è una morte per pianoforte
che tinge d'azzurro i giovanotti. 
Ci sono mendichi sui terrazzi. E
fresche ghirlande di pianto. 

Ahi! Ahi! Ahi! Ahi! 
Prendi questo valzer che spira fra le mie braccia.
Perchè io ti amo, ti amo, amore mio,
nella soffitta dove giocano i bambini,
sognando vecchie luci d'Ungheria 
nel mormorio di una sera mite, 
vedendo agnelli e gi...Read more of this...

by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...[Composed, when 74 years old, for a Polish lady, who excelled in
playing on the pianoforte.]

PASSION brings reason--who can pacify

An anguish'd heart whose loss hath been so great?
Where are the hours that fled so swiftly by?

In vain the fairest thou didst gain from fate;
Sad is the soul, confused the enterprise;

The glorious world, how on the sense it dies!

In million tones entwined for evermore,

Music with angel-pinions hove...Read more of this...

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