Famous Specie Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Specie poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous specie poems. These examples illustrate what a famous specie poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Marvell, Andrew
..., sapite infortunio.
Fruit Edmundus Trottuis.
E quatuor masculae stirpis residuus,
Statura justa, Forma virili, specie eximic,
Medio juventutis Robore simul & Flore,
Alpectu, In cessu, sermone juxta amabilis,
Et siquid ultra Cineri pretium addit.
Honesta Diciplina domi imbutus,
Peregre profectus
Generosis Artibus Animum
Et exercitiis Corpus firmaverat.
Circaeam Insulam, Scopulos Sirenum
Praeternavigavit,
Et in hoc naufragio morum & saeculi
Solus perdiderat nih...Read more of this...
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Smith, Stevie
...Nobody knows what I feel about Freddy
I cannot make anyone understand
I love him sub specie aet ernitaties
I love him out of hand.
I don't love him so much in the restaurants that's a fact
To get him hobnob with my old pub chums needs too much tact
He don't love them and they don't love him
In the pub lub lights they say Freddy very dim.
But get him alone on the open saltings
Where the sea licks up to the fen
He is his and my own hea...Read more of this...
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Alighieri, Dante
...rire a la virt? che vole
freno a suo prode, quell'uom che non nacque,
dannando s?, dann? tutta sua prole;
onde l'umana specie inferma giacque
gi? per secoli molti in grande errore,
fin ch'al Verbo di Dio discender piacque
u' la natura, che dal suo fattore
s'era allungata, un? a s? in persona
con l'atto sol del suo etterno amore.
Or drizza il viso a quel ch'or si ragiona:
questa natura al suo fattore unita,
qual fu creata, fu sincera e buona;
ma per s? stessa pur fu el...Read more of this...
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