Famous Tagus Poems by Famous Poets

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

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In Spain

...Tagus, farewell! that westward with thy streams 
Turns up the grains of gold already tried
With spur and sail, for I go to seek the Thames
Gainward the sun that shewth her wealthy pride, 
And to the town which Brutus sought by dreams, 
Like bended moon doth lend her lusty side. 
My king, my country, alone for whome I live, 
Of mighty love the wings for this ...Read more of this...
by Wyatt, Sir Thomas


Into the Dusk-Charged Air

...For centuries
The Afton has flowed.
If the Rio *****
Could abandon its song, and the Magdalena
The jungle flowers, the Tagus
Would still flow serenely, and the Ohio
Abrade its slate banks. The tan Euphrates would
Sidle silently across the world. The Yukon
Was choked with ice, but the Susquehanna still pushed
Bravely along. The Dee caught the day's last flares
Like the Pilcomayo's carrion rose.
The Peace offered eternal fragrance
Perhaps, but the Mackenzie churned livid mud
L...Read more of this...
by Ashbery, John

Sirena

...renown her. 
 On thy bank, 
 In a rank, 
 Let thy swans sing her, 
 And with their music 
 Along let them bring her. 

Tagus and Pactolus 
 Are to thee debtor, 
Nor for their gold to us 
 Are they the better: 
Henceforth of all the rest 
 Be thou the River 
Which, as the daintiest, 
 Puts them down ever. 
For as my precious one 
 O'er thee doth travel, 
She to pearl paragon 
 Turneth thy gravel. 
 On thy bank... 

Our mournful Philomel, 
 That rarest tuner, 
Henceforth in Ap...Read more of this...
by Drayton, Michael

Sonnet CXVI

...o whose streamsHe fell who burnt the world with borrow'd beams;Gold-rolling Tagus, Munda, famous Iber,Sorgue, Rhone, Loire, Garron, nor proud-bank'd Seine,Peneus, Phasis, Xanthus, humble Ladon,Nor she whose nymphs excel her who loved Adon,Fair Tamesis, nor Ister large, nor Rhine,Euphrates, Tigris, Indus, Hermus, Gange,Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty Upon His Translation Of The Popular Errors

...hor. Here he maketh blots
That mends; and added beauties are but spots.
Caelia whose English doth more richly flow
Then Tagus, purer then dissolved snow,
And sweet as are her lips that speak it, she
Now learns the tongues of France and Italy;
But she is Caelia still: no other grace
But her own smiles commend that lovely face;
Her native beauty's not Italianated,
Nor her chast mind into the French translated:
Her thoughts are English, though her sparkling wit
With other Langua...Read more of this...
by Marvell, Andrew


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