Famous Pisa Poems by Famous Poets

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

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...At evening, sitting on this terrace, 
When the sun from the west, beyond Pisa, beyond the mountains of Carrara 
Departs, and the world is taken by surprise ... 

When the tired flower of Florence is in gloom beneath the glowing 
Brown hills surrounding ... 

When under the arches of the Ponte Vecchio 
A green light enters against stream, flush from the west, 
Against the current of obscure Arno ... 

Look up, and you see things f...Read more of this...
by Lawrence, D. H.


Four Songs Of Four Seasons

...n her leaves were September's,
The face lift up to the star-blind seer,
That saw from his prison arisen his stars.

And Pisa broods on her dead, not mourning,
For love of her loveliness given them in fee;
And Prato gleams with the glad monk's gift
Whose hand was there as the hand of morning;
And Siena, set in the sand's red sea,
Lifts loftier her head than the red sand's drift.

And far to the fair south-westward lightens,
Girdled and sandalled and plumed with flowers,
At sun...Read more of this...
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Purgatorio (Italian)

...co ebbe la morte,
e l'altro ch'annegò correndo in caccia.
 Quivi pregava con le mani sporte
Federigo Novello, e quel da Pisa
che fé parer lo buon Marzucco forte.
 Vidi conte Orso e l'anima divisa
dal corpo suo per astio e per inveggia,
com'e' dicea, non per colpa commisa;
 Pier da la Broccia dico; e qui proveggia,
mentr'è di qua, la donna di Brabante,
sì che però non sia di peggior greggia.
 Come libero fui da tutte quante
quell'ombre che pregar pur ch'altri prieghi,
sì che s...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Stanzas Written On The Road Between Florence And Pisa

...Oh, talk not to me of a name great in story;
The days of our youth are the days of our glory;
And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty
Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.

What are garlands and crowns to the brow that is wrinkled?
'Tis but as a dead flower with May-dew besprinkled:
Then away with all such from the head that is hoary!
W...Read more of this...
by Byron, George (Lord)

The First Black Flag

...rimes—for warlike deeds 
 Renowned—and placed under the Empire's ban 
 By the Diet of Frankfort; by the Council 
 Of Pisa banished from the Holy Church; 
 Reprobate, isolated, cursed—yet still 
 Unconquered 'mid his mountains and in will; 
 The bitter foe of the Count Palatine 
 And Treves' proud archbishop; who has spurned 
 For sixty years the ladder which the Empire 
 Upreared to scale his walls? Hast heard that he 
 Shelters the brave—the flaunting rich man stri...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor


The Leaning Tower

...Till death his brain was crystal clear;
And here he communed with the stars,
Where now you park your motor cars.

"This Pisa was a pleasant place,
Beloved by poets in their prime;
Yonder our Shelly used to pace,
And Byron ottavas would rhyme.
Till Shelley, from this fair environ,
Scrammed to escape egregious Byron.

"And you who with the horde have come,
I hate your guts, I say with candour;
Your wife wears slacks, and you chew gum,
So I, the ghost of Savage Landor,
Beg you, ...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William

There was an old person of Pisa

...
There was an old person of Pisa,Whose daughters did nothing to please her;She dressed them in gray, and banged them all day,Round the walls of the city of Pisa. ...Read more of this...
by Lear, Edward

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