Famous Ponte Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Ponte poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous ponte poems. These examples illustrate what a famous ponte poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...wer 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 flying
Between the day and the night;
Swallows with spools of dark thread sewing the shadows together.
A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches
Where light pushes through;
A ...Read more of this...
by
Lawrence, D. H.
...me fu messo per Clemente allora,
avesse in Dio ben letta questa faccia,
l'ossa del corpo mio sarieno ancora
in co del ponte presso a Benevento,
sotto la guardia de la grave mora.
Or le bagna la pioggia e move il vento
di fuor dal regno, quasi lungo 'l Verde,
dov'e' le trasmutò a lume spento.
Per lor maladizion sì non si perde,
che non possa tornar, l'etterno amore,
mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde.
Vero è che quale in contumacia more
di Santa Chiesa, ...Read more of this...
by
Alighieri, Dante
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