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Famous Sol Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Bradstreet, Anne
...lt,
His warmth such fridged colds did cause to melt.
My chilled limbs now numbed lie forlorn;
Return; return, sweet Sol, from Capricorn;
In this dead time, alas, what can I more
Than view those fruits which through thy heart I bore?
Which sweet contentment yield me for a space,
True living pictures of their father's face.
O strange effect! now thou art southward gone,
I weary grow the tedious day so long;
But when thou northward to me shalt return,
I wish my Sun may n...Read more of this...



by Killigrew, Anne
...br> 
 Meli. See how Discourse upon the Time does prey, 
Those hours pass swiftest, that we talk away.
Declining Sol forsaken hath the Fields, 
And Mountains highest Summits only gildes: 
Which warns us home-wards with our Flocks to make. 
 Alci. Along with thee our Thanks and Praises take. 
 Aste. In which our Hearts do all in One unite,
What e're the Gods as their Best Gifts bestow. 
 Meli. Kind Nymphs on you may Equal Blessings flow....Read more of this...

by Poe, Edgar Allan
..."Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce, 
"Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet. 
Through all the flimsy things we see at once 
As easily as through a Naples bonnet- 
Trash of all trash!- how can a lady don it? 
Yet heavier far than your Petrarchan stuff- 
Owl-downy nonsense that the faintest puff 
Twirls into trunk-paper the while you con it." 
And, veritably, Sol is r...Read more of this...

by Pope, Alexander
...and while here the Ocean gains,
In other Parts it leaves wide sandy Plains;
Thus in the Soul while Memory prevails,
The solid Pow'r of Understanding fails;
Where Beams of warm Imagination play,
The Memory's soft Figures melt away.
One Science only will one Genius fit;
So vast is Art, so narrow Human Wit;
Not only bounded to peculiar Arts,
But oft in those, confin'd to single Parts.
Like Kings we lose the Conquests gain'd before,
By vain Ambition still to make them mor...Read more of this...

by Petrarch, Francesco
...CANZONE VIII. Vergine bella che di sol vestita. TO THE VIRGIN MARY.  Beautiful Virgin! clothed with the sun,Crown'd with the stars, who so the Eternal SunWell pleasedst that in thine his light he hid;Love pricks me on...Read more of this...



by Alighieri, Dante
...'mpediva tanto il mio cammino,

ch'i' fui per ritornar pi? volte v?lto.

 Temp'era dal principio del mattino,

e 'l sol montava 'n s? con quelle stelle

ch'eran con lui quando l'amor divino

 mosse di prima quelle cose belle;

s? ch'a bene sperar m'era cagione

di quella fiera a la gaetta pelle

 l'ora del tempo e la dolce stagione;

ma non s? che paura non mi desse

la vista che m'apparve d'un leone.

 Questi parea che contra me venisse

con la test'alta e con rabbio...Read more of this...

by Alighieri, Dante
...ed;
indeed, he so impeded my ascent
that I had often to turn back again.


Temp'era dal principio del mattino,
e 'l sol montava 'n s? con quelle stelle
ch'eran con lui quando l'amor divino 

The time was the beginning of the morning;
the sun was rising now in fellowship
with the same stars that had escorted it


mosse di prima quelle cose belle;
s? ch'a bene sperar m'era cagione
di quella fiera a la gaetta pelle 

when Divine Love first moved those things of beauty;
so th...Read more of this...

by Alighieri, Dante
...Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno 
toglieva li animai che sono in terra 
da le fatiche loro; e io sol uno 

The day was now departing; the dark air 
released the living beings of the earth 
from work and weariness; and I myself 


m'apparecchiava a sostener la guerra 
s? del cammino e s? de la pietate, 
che ritrarr? la mente che non erra . 

alone prepared to undergo the battle 
both of the journeying and of the pity, 
which memory, mistaking not, sh...Read more of this...

by Agustini, Delmira
...la noche azul…Mi alma desnuda temblará en tus manos,Sobre tus hombros pesará mi cruz.Las cumbres de la vida son tan solas,Tan solas y tan frías! Y encerréMis ansias en mí misma, y toda enteraComo una torre de marfil me alcé.Hoy abriré a tu alma el gran misterio;Tu alma es capaz de penetrar en mí.En el silencio hay vértigos de abismo:Yo vacilaba, me sostengo en ti.Muero de ensueños; beberé en tus fuentesPuras y frescas la verdad, yo séQue está en el fondo magno...Read more of this...

by Trumbull, John
...ic weal,
Which when completed, or before,
A second vote in pieces tore.
They met, made speeches full long-winded,
Resolv'd, protested and rescinded;
Addresses sign'd; then chose committees
To stop all drinking of Bohea teas;
With winds of doctrine veer'd about,
And turn'd all whig committees out.
Meanwhile our Hero, as their head,
In pomp the tory faction led,
Still following, as the 'Squire should please,
Successive on, like files of geese.


And now the town was...Read more of this...

by Rossetti, Christina
...new beneath the sun. 


4 

Poca favilla gran fliamma seconda. - Dante
Ogni altra cosa, ogni pensier va fore,
E sol ivi con voi rimansi amore. - Petrarca

I lov'd you first: but afterwards your love
Outsoaring mine, sang such a loftier song
As drown'd the friendly cooings of my dove.
Which owes the other most? my love was long,
And yours one moment seem'd to wax more strong;
I lov'd and guess'd at you, you construed me--
And lov'd me for what might or might no...Read more of this...

by Agustini, Delmira
...SpanishFuera, la noche en veste de tragedia sollozaComo una enorme viuda pegada a mis cristales.  Mi cuarto:…Por un bello milagro de la luz y del fuegoMi cuarto es una gruta de oro y gemas raras:Tiene un musgo tan suave, tan hondo de tapices,Y es tan vívida y cálida, tan dulce que me creoDentro de un corazón…    Mi lecho que está en blanco es blanco y vaporosoComo flor de inocencia,Como espuma de ...Read more of this...

by Wheatley, Phillis
...ughters of the sea
With sweeter cadence glide along,
And Thames responsive joins the song.
Pleas'd with their notes Sol sheds benign his ray,
And double radiance decks the face of day.

III.
To court thee to Britannia's arms
Serene the climes and mild the sky,
Her region boasts unnumber'd charms,
Thy welcome smiles in ev'ry eye.
Thy promise, Neptune keep, record my pray'r,
Not give my wishes to the empty air....Read more of this...

by Alighieri, Dante
...l? bianco
quello emisperio, e l'altra parte nera,
 quando Beatrice in sul sinistro fianco
vidi rivolta e riguardar nel sole:
aquila s? non li s'affisse unquanco.
 E s? come secondo raggio suole
uscir del primo e risalire in suso,
pur come pelegrin che tornar vuole,
 cos? de l'atto suo, per li occhi infuso
ne l'imagine mia, il mio si fece,
e fissi li occhi al sole oltre nostr'uso.
 Molto ? licito l?, che qui non lece
a le nostre virt?, merc? del loco
fatto per proprio...Read more of this...

by Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor
...uello,

    pues del mismo corazón
los combatientes deseos
son holocausto poluto,
son materiales afectos,

    y solamente del alma
en religiosos incendios
arde sacrificio puro
de adoración y silencio.

   .....

    Yo, pues, mi adorada Filis,
que tu deidad reverencio,
que tu desdén idolatro
y que tu rigor venero:

    bien así, como la simple
amante que, en tornos ciegos,
es despojo de la llama
por tocar el lucimiento

    como el niño que, inocente,...Read more of this...

by Alighieri, Dante
...guardo fui partito,
un poco me volgendo a l 'altro polo,
là onde il Carro già era sparito,
 vidi presso di me un veglio solo,
degno di tanta reverenza in vista,
che più non dee a padre alcun figliuolo.
 Lunga la barba e di pel bianco mista
portava, a' suoi capelli simigliante,
de' quai cadeva al petto doppia lista.
 Li raggi de le quattro luci sante
fregiavan sì la sua faccia di lume,
ch'i' 'l vedea come 'l sol fosse davante.
 «Chi siete voi che contro al cieco fi...Read more of this...

by Milton, John
...ia sicuro,
Di timori, e speranze al popol use 
Quanto d'ingegno, e d' alto valor vago,
E di cetra sonora, e delle muse:
Sol troverete in tal parte men duro
Ove amor mise l 'insanabil ago....Read more of this...

by Pope, Alexander
...a gentle Belle reject a Lord? 
And dwells such Rage in softest Bosoms then?
And lodge such daring Souls in Little Men?

Sol thro' white Curtains shot a tim'rous Ray,
And op'd those Eyes that must eclipse the Day;
Now Lapdogs give themselves the rowzing Shake,
And sleepless Lovers, just at Twelve, awake:
Thrice rung the Bell, the Slipper knock'd the Ground,
And the press'd Watch return'd a silver Sound.
Belinda still her downy Pillow prest, 
Her Guardian Sylph prolong'd th...Read more of this...

by Cowper, William
...e-tree or lofty pear,
Lodg'd with convenience in the fork,
She watch'd the gardener at his work;
Sometimes her ease and solace sought
In an old empty wat'ring-pot;
There, wanting nothing save a fan
To seem some nymph in her sedan,
Apparell'd in exactest sort,
And ready to be borne to court.

But love of change, it seems, has place
Not only in our wiser race;
Cats also feel, as well as we,
That passion's force, and so did she.
Her climbing, she began to find,
Expos'd h...Read more of this...

by Wheatley, Phillis
...h to his eye its mass a point appears:
Ador'd the God that whirls surrounding spheres,
Which first ordain'd that mighty Sol should reign
The peerless monarch of th' ethereal train:
Of miles twice forty millions is his height,
And yet his radiance dazzles mortal sight
So far beneath--from him th' extended earth
Vigour derives, and ev'ry flow'ry birth:
Vast through her orb she moves with easy grace
Around her Phoebus in unbounded space;
True to her course th' impetuous storm de...Read more of this...

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