Famous Regina Poems by Famous Poets

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A Letter To Doctor Ingelo then With My Lord Whitlock Amba

...ora longa petit.
Non ibi lenta pigro stringuntur frigore Verba,
Solibus, & tandem Vere liquanda novo.
Sed radiis hyemem Regina potentior urit;
Haecque magis solvit, quam ligat illa Polum.
Dicitur & nostros moerens andisse Labores,
Fortis & ingenuam Gentis amasse Fidem.
Oblatae Batavam nec paci commodat Aurem;
Nec versat Danos insidiosa dolos.
Sed pia festinat mutatis Foedera rebus,
Et Libertatem quae dominatur amat.
Digna cui Salomon meritos retulisset honores,
Et Saba concre...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew


A Poem

...A poem—
is just one more
scrap of paper
that has sailed off the table
in a bottle
with a cry for help....Read more of this...
by Derieva, Regina

All My Life

...All my life 
I sought 
an angel. 
And he appeared 
in order to say: 
"I am no angel !"...Read more of this...
by Derieva, Regina

Beyond Siberia Again Siberia

...Beyond Siberia again Siberia,
beyond impenetrable forest again forest.
And beyond it waste ground,
where a blizzard of snow breaks loose.

The blizzard has handcuffs, and the snow-
storm has a knife which kills at once....
I will die, pay a debt
for others who live somewhere,

out of spite, out of fear and terror,
out of pain, out of a nameless grave....
B...Read more of this...
by Derieva, Regina

From The Last Island: To Lady Elisabeth Verreet

...Oval mirror of the sea,
age-warped isle waved and cloudy,
each angle crystalline and salty.
my lens into reality.

Point of space just visible,
focus of beams ineffable,
swith of signals transmissible,
receiver of voices inaudible

At time's edge. No need have I to shout
in fear about this death of mine.
And any creature here is glad
to offer you a glass o...Read more of this...
by Derieva, Regina


I Dont Feel At Home Where I Am

...I don't feel at home where I am,
or where I spend time; only where,
beyond counting, there's freedom and calm,
that is, waves, that is, space where, when there,
you consist of pure freedom, which, seen,
turns that Gorgon, the crowd, to stone,
to pebbles and sand . . . where life's mean-
ing lies buried, that never let one
come within cannon shot yet.
From ...Read more of this...
by Derieva, Regina

In Effigiem Oliveri Cromwell

...Haec est quae toties Inimicos Umbra fugavit,
At sub qua Cives Otia lenta terunt.
In eandem Reginae Sueciae transmissam
Bellipotens Virgo, septem Regina Trionum.
Christina, Arctoi lucida stella Poli;
Cernis quas merui dura sub Casside Rugas;
Sicque Senex Armis impiger Ora fero;
Invia Fatorum dum per Vestigia nitor,
Exequor & Populi fortia Jussa Manu.
At tibi submittit frontem reverentior Umbra,
Nec sunt hi Vultus Regibus usque truces....Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew

Inferno (Italian)

...erpentelli e ceraste avien per crine,

onde le fiere tempie erano avvinte.

 E quei, che ben conobbe le meschine

de la regina de l'etterno pianto,

«Guarda», mi disse, «le feroci Erine.

 Quest'? Megera dal sinistro canto;

quella che piange dal destro ? Aletto;

Tesif?n ? nel mezzo»; e tacque a tanto.

 Con l'unghie si fendea ciascuna il petto;

battiensi a palme, e gridavan s? alto,

ch'i' mi strinsi al poeta per sospetto.

 «Vegna Medusa: s? 'l farem di smalto»,

dicevan ...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

It Was Not Necessary To Study

...It was not necessary to study
the language
of a strange country;
anyway, it would be of no help.
It was not necessary to know
where Italy or England
is located;
travel was obviously
out of question.
It was not necessary to live
among the wild beasts
of Noah's ark,
which had just devoured
the last dove of peace,
along with Noah
and his virtuous family.
It w...Read more of this...
by Derieva, Regina

La Regina Avrillouse

...Lady of rich allure, 
Queen of the spring's embrace, 
Your arms are long like boughs of ash, 
Mid laugh-broken streams, spirit of rain unsure, 
Breath of the poppy flower, 
All the wood thy bower 
And the hills thy dwelling-place.

This will I no more dream; 
Warm is thy arm's allure, 
Warm is the gust of breath 
That ere thy lips meet mine 
Kisseth my che...Read more of this...
by Pound, Ezra

On The Sea-Shore Smell Of Iodine

...On the sea-shore, smell of iodine,
and square as in Sicily, and dancing.

An intellectual that came from the common people,
preparing himself to be Rosencrantz.
He decides to serve Claudius and therefore
spy on Prince Hamlet from the fountain.

All over the world — the prison. At the world's 
end a certain John plays the piano.

Already darkness, and the e...Read more of this...
by Derieva, Regina

Purgatorio (Italian)

...o il meno.
 Non avea pur natura ivi dipinto,
ma di soavità di mille odori
vi facea uno incognito e indistinto.
 'Salve, Regina' in sul verde e 'n su' fiori
quindi seder cantando anime vidi,
che per la valle non parean di fuori.
 «Prima che 'l poco sole omai s'annidi»,
cominciò 'l Mantoan che ci avea vòlti,
«tra color non vogliate ch'io vi guidi.
 Di questo balzo meglio li atti e ' volti
conoscerete voi di tutti quanti,
che ne la lama giù tra essi accolti.
 Colui che più siede...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

The Son In Old Age

...
 ("Ma Regina, cette noble figure.") 
 
 {LES BURGRAVES, Part II.} 


 Thy noble face, Regina, calls to mind 
 My poor lost little one, my latest born. 
 He was a gift from God—a sign of pardon— 
 That child vouchsafed me in my eightieth year! 
 I to his little cradle went, and went, 
 And even while 'twas sleeping, talked to it. 
 For when one's ver...Read more of this...
by Hugo, Victor

Theory Of Recruiting

...Sons of bitches
were born
with hearts of stone,
cherishing this stone
all their life.
Children of
sons of bitches
were born
with hearts of grenade,
in order to
blow to pieces
everything,
and to leave as a message for their descendants — 
entrails
(still smoking entrails)
of sons of bitches....Read more of this...
by Derieva, Regina

To Fr. Armando

...Everyone, after all, was killed:
he who was crucified,
he who died without skin,
he who died without a head,
he who was drowned,
he who was thrown down
from the wall of the Temple,
which shortly after that
ceased to exist.
Everyone, after all, was tormented;
he who was put at the mercy
of lions and Neros,
he who was roasted on the bonfire,
he whose eyes we...Read more of this...
by Derieva, Regina

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