Famous Tal Poems by Famous Poets

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Disillusionment

...ladrones,
desnudo, el pasajero.

    Ni aun la libertad misma
tenerla por bien quiero:
que luego será daño
si por tal la poseo.

    No quiero más cuidados
de bienes tan inciertos,
sino tener el alma
como que no la tengo.

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Disillusionment (English)

    Disillusionment,
this is the bitter end,
this proves you're rightly called
the end of illusion.

   You've made me lose all,
yet no, losing all
is not paying too dear
for being undeceived.
...Read more of this...
by Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor


Inferno (Italian)

...quei che volontieri acquista,

e giugne 'l tempo che perder lo face,

che 'n tutt'i suoi pensier piange e s'attrista;

 tal mi fece la bestia sanza pace,

che, venendomi 'ncontro, a poco a poco

mi ripigneva l? dove 'l sol tace.

 Mentre ch'i' rovinava in basso loco,

dinanzi a li occhi mi si fu offerto

chi per lungo silenzio parea fioco.

 Quando vidi costui nel gran diserto,

Miserere di me, gridai a lui,

qual che tu sii, od ombra od omo certo!.

 Rispuosemi: «Non omo, om...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Inferno Canto 01

...che 'n tutt'i suoi pensier piange e s'attrista ;

Even as he who glories while he gains
will, when the time has come to tally loss,
lament with every thought and turn despondent,


tal mi fece la bestia sanza pace,
che, venendomi 'ncontro, a poco a poco
mi ripigneva l? dove 'l sol tace .

so was I when I faced that restless beast
which, even as she stalked me, step by step
had thrust me back to where the sun is speechless.


Mentre ch'i' rovinava in basso loco,
dinanzi a li o...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Inferno Canto02

...ong enough 
before you let me face that rugged pass. 


Tu dici che di Silvio il parente, 
corruttibile ancora, ad immortale 
secolo and?, e fu sensibilmente . 

You say that he who fathered Sylvius, 
while he was still corruptible, had journeyed 
into the deathless world with his live body. 


Per?, se l'avversario d'ogne male 
cortese i fu, pensando l'alto effetto 
ch'uscir dovea di lui e 'l chi e 'l quale , 

For, if the Enemy of every evil 
was courteous to him, consideri...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets

...the helpmeet made for man. 


6 

Or puoi la quantitate
Comprender de l'amor che a te mi scalda. - Dante
Non vo' che da tal nodo mi scioglia. - Petrarca

Trust me, I have not earn'd your dear rebuke,
I love, as you would have me, God the most;
Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost,
Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look
Unready to forego what I forsook;
This say I, having counted up the cost,
This, though I be the feeblest of God's host,
The sorriest sheep Chr...Read more of this...
by Rossetti, Christina


Paradiso (Italian)

...Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda:
forse di retro a me con miglior voci
si pregher? perch? Cirra risponda.
 Surge ai mortali per diverse foci
la lucerna del mondo; ma da quella
che quattro cerchi giugne con tre croci,
 con miglior corso e con migliore stella
esce congiunta, e la mondana cera
pi? a suo modo tempera e suggella.
 Fatto avea di l? mane e di qua sera
tal foce, e quasi tutto era l? bianco
quello emisperio, e l'altra parte nera,
 quando Beatrice in sul sinistro fian...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Phyllis

...t my heart unchecked.

    The matter to me was simple:
love for you was so strong,
I could see you in my soul
and talk to you all day long.

    With this idea in mind,
I lived in utter delight,
pretending my subterfuge
found favor in your sight.

    In this strange, ingenious fashion,
I allowed the hope to be mine
that I still might see as human
what I really conceived as divine.

    Oh, how mad I became
in my blissful love of you,
for even though feign...Read more of this...
by Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor

Puedo Escribir

.... Será de otro. Como antes de mis besos.
Su voz, su cuerpo claro. Sus ojos infinitos.

Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.
Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

Porque en noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos,
mi alma no se contenta con haberla perdido.

Aunque éste sea el último dolor que ella me causa,
y éstos sean los últimos versos que yo le escribo....Read more of this...
by Neruda, Pablo

Purgatorio (Italian)

...tro sono;
e qui Caliopè alquanto surga,
 seguitando il mio canto con quel suono
di cui le Piche misere sentiro
lo colpo tal, che disperar perdono.
 Dolce color d'oriental zaffiro,
che s'accoglieva nel sereno aspetto
del mezzo, puro infino al primo giro,
 a li occhi miei ricominciò diletto,
tosto ch'io usci' fuor de l'aura morta
che m'avea contristati li occhi e 'l petto.
 Lo bel pianeto che d'amar conforta
faceva tutto rider l'oriente,
velando i Pesci ch'erano in sua scorta.
...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Sonnet 06

...ori, 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 Milton, John

The Triumph Of Fame

...al trance,And bids the disembodied spirit claimThe glorious guerdon of immortal Fame.Like Phosphor, in the sullen rear of night,Before the golden wheels of orient lightHe came. But who the tendant pomp can tell,What mighty master of the corded shellCan sing how heaven above accordant smiled,And what bri...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

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