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Famous Sente Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Alighieri, Dante
...one
di meritar mi scema la misura?".
 Ancor di dubitar ti d? cagione
parer tornarsi l'anime a le stelle,
secondo la sentenza di Platone.
 Queste son le question che nel tuo velle
pontano igualmente; e per? pria
tratter? quella che pi? ha di felle.
 D'i Serafin colui che pi? s'india,
Mois?, Samuel, e quel Giovanni
che prender vuoli, io dico, non Maria,
 non hanno in altro cielo i loro scanni
che questi spirti che mo t'appariro,
n? hanno a l'esser lor pi? o meno ann...Read more of this...



by Petrarch, Francesco
...SONNET LII. Sente l' aura mia antica, e i dolci colli. HE REVISITS VAUCLUSE.  I feel the well-known gale; the hills I spySo pleasant, whence my fair her being drew,Which made these eyes, while Heaven was willing, shewRead more of this...

by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...el this book, til I have do; 
Me nedeth here noon other art to use.
For-why to every lovere I me excuse,
That of no sentement I this endyte,
But out of Latin in my tonge it wryte.

Wherfore I nil have neither thank ne blame 
Of al this werk, but prey yow mekely,
Disblameth me if any word be lame,
For as myn auctor seyde, so seye I.
Eek though I speke of love unfelingly,
No wondre is, for it no-thing of newe is; 
A blind man can nat Iuggen wel in hewis.

Ye kno...Read more of this...

by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...him made
On mortal thing, and as yow list, ay ye
Yeve him in love ese or adversitee;
And in a thousand formes doun him sente 
For love in erthe, and whom yow liste, he hente.

Ye fierse Mars apeysen of his ire,
And, as yow list, ye maken hertes digne;
Algates, hem that ye wol sette a-fyre,
They dreden shame, and vices they resigne; 
Ye do hem corteys be, fresshe and benigne,
And hye or lowe, after a wight entendeth;
The Ioyes that he hath, your might him sendeth.

Ye...Read more of this...

by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...he tretis go,
And hem for Antenor ful ofte preyde
To bringen hoom king Toas and Criseyde;
And whan Pryam his save-garde sente,
Thembassadours to Troye streyght they wente. 

The cause y-told of hir cominge, the olde
Pryam the king ful sone in general
Let here-upon his parlement to holde,
Of which the effect rehersen yow I shal.
Thembassadours ben answered for fynal, 
Theschaunge of prisoners and al this nede
Hem lyketh wel, and forth in they procede.

This Troilus...Read more of this...



by Chaucer, Geoffrey
...was he,
So that it lay not in his libertee 
No-wher to gon, but on the morwe he wente
To Troilus, whan that he for him sente.

For in his herte he coude wel devyne,
That Troilus al night for sorwe wook;
And that he wolde telle him of his pyne, 
This knew he wel y-nough, with-oute book.
For which to chaumbre streight the wey he took,
And Troilus tho sobreliche he grette,
And on the bed ful sone he gan him sette.

'My Pandarus,' quod Troilus, 'the sorwe 
Which that...Read more of this...

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