Famous Scintilla Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Scintilla poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous scintilla poems. These examples illustrate what a famous scintilla poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Alighieri, Dante
...te in questa spera,
proceder ancor oltre mi convene.
Tu vuo' saper chi ? in questa lumera
che qui appresso me cos? scintilla,
come raggio di sole in acqua mera.
Or sappi che l? entro si tranquilla
Raab; e a nostr'ordine congiunta,
di lei nel sommo grado si sigilla.
Da questo cielo, in cui l'ombra s'appunta
che 'l vostro mondo face, pria ch'altr'alma
del triunfo di Cristo fu assunta.
Ben si convenne lei lasciar per palma
in alcun cielo de l'alta vittoria
ch...Read more of this...
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Marvell, Andrew
...oras;
Haec quoque natalis meditans convivia Coeli,
Evertit Calices, purpureosque Thoros.
Fontis stilla sacri, Lucis scintilla perennis,
Non capitur Tyria veste, vapore Sabae.
Tota sed in proprii secedens luminis Arcem,
Colligit in Gyros se sinuosa breves.
Magnorumque sequens animo convexa Deorum,
Sydereum parvo fingit in Orbe Globum.
Quam bene in aversae modulum contracta figurae
Oppositum Mundo claudit ubiq; latus.
Sed bibit in speculum radios ornata rotu...Read more of this...
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Pinsky, Robert
...ordinary and distinct,
So close up, that I felt
As if I could have made him up,
Imagined him as I imagined
The ball, a scintilla
High in the black backdrop
Of the sky. Tight red stitches.
Rawlings. The bleached
Horsehide white: the color
Of nothing. Color of the past
And of the future, of the movie screen
At rest and of blank paper.
"I could have." The mind. The black
Backdrop, the white
Fly picked out by the towering
Lights. A few years lat...Read more of this...
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