Famous Tanto Poems by Famous Poets

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

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Bianca Among The Nightingales

...t, loving perfectly.
He had not caught her with her loosed
Gold ringlets... rarer in the south...
Nor heard the 'Grazie tanto' bruised
To sweetness by her English mouth.
And still they sing, the nightingales.

She had not reached him at my heart
With her fine tongue, as snakes indeed
Kill flies; nor had I, for my part,
Yearned after, in my desperate need,
And followed him as he did her
To coasts left bitter by the tide,
Whose very nightingales, elsewhere
Delighting, torture a...Read more of this...
by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


I Approach and I Withdraw

...en quien es
aun pérdida el desprecio!

    Tan atento la adoro
que, en el mal que padezco,
no siento sus rigores
tanto como el perderlos.

    No pierdo, al partir, sólo
los bienes que poseo,
si en Filis, que no es mía,
pierdo lo que no pierdo.

    ¡Ay de quien un desdén
lograba tan atento,
que por no ser dolor
no se atrevió a ser premio!

    Pues viendo, en mi destino,
preciso mi destierro,
me desdeñaba más
porque perdiera menos.

    ¡Ay! ¿Quién te...Read more of this...
by Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor

Inferno (Italian)

...a lonza leggera e presta molto,

che di pel macolato era coverta;

 e non mi si partia dinanzi al volto,

anzi '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
...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Inferno Canto 01

...pard, very quick and lithe,
a leopard covered with a spotted hide.


e non mi si partia dinanzi al volto,
anzi 'mpediva tanto il mio cammino,
ch'i' fui per ritornar pi? volte v?lto .

He did not disappear from sight, but stayed;
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 no...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Inferno Canto02

...t he had begun, 


tal mi fec'io 'n quella oscura costa, 
perch?, pensando, consumai la 'mpresa 
che fu nel cominciar cotanto tosta. 

so was I in the midst of that dark land, 
because, with all my thinking, I annulled 
the task I had so quickly undertaken. 


«S'i' ho ben la parola tua intesa», 
rispuose del magnanimo quell'ombra; 
«l'anima tua ? da viltade offesa ; 

"If I have understood what you have said," 
replied the shade of that great-hearted one, 
"your soul has bee...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante


Inferno Canto03

...
have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them- 
even the wicked cannot glory in them." 


E io: «Maestro, che ? tanto greve 
a lor, che lamentar li fa s? forte?». 
Rispuose: «Dicerolti molto breve . 

And I: "What is it, master, that oppresses 
these souls, compelling them to wail so loud?" 
He answered: "I shall tell you in few words. 


Questi non hanno speranza di morte 
e la lor cieca vita ? tanto bassa, 
che 'nvidiosi son d'ogne altra sorte . 

Those who are here...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Iuuentius Cycle

...enta,
Nec mi umquam uidear satur futurus,
non si densior aridis aristis
sit nostrae seges osculationis.

NEMONE in tanto potuit populo esse, Iuuenti,
bellus homo, quem tu deligere inciperes.
Praeterquam iste tuus moribunda ab sede Pisauri
hospes inaurata palladior statua,
qui tibi nunc cordi est, quem tu praeponere nobis
audes. Et nescis quod facinus facias?

SURRIPUI tibi dum ludis, mellite Iuuenti
suauiolum dulci dulcius ambrosia.
Verum id non impune tuli, nam...Read more of this...
by Catullus, Gaius Valerius

Paradiso (Italian)

...cose che ridire
n? sa n? pu? chi di l? s? discende;
 perch? appressando s? al suo disire,
nostro intelletto si profonda tanto,
che dietro la memoria non pu? ire.
 Veramente quant'io del regno santo
ne la mia mente potei far tesoro,
sar? ora materia del mio canto.
 O buono Appollo, a l'ultimo lavoro
fammi del tuo valor s? fatto vaso,
come dimandi a dar l'amato alloro.
 Infino a qui l'un giogo di Parnaso
assai mi fu; ma or con amendue
m'? uopo intrar ne l'aringo rimaso.
 Entra ...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Phyllis

...corrió que miedo.

   Logros de errar por tu causa
fue de mi ambición el cebo;
donde es el riesgo apreciable
¿qué tanto valdrá el acierto?

   Permite, pues, a mi pluma
segundo arriesgado vuelo,
pues no es el primer delito
que le disculpa el ejemplo

   .....

    de ti, peregrina Filis?,
cuyo divino sujeto
se dio por merced al mundo,
se dio por ventaja al cielo;

    en cuyas divinas aras,
ni sudor arde sabeo,
ni sangre se efunde humana,
ni bruto se co...Read more of this...
by Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor

Purgatorio (Italian)

...ciane andar per li tuoi sette regni;
grazie riporterò di te a lei,
se d'esser mentovato là giù degni».
 «Marzia piacque tanto a li occhi miei
mentre ch'i' fu' di là», diss'elli allora,
«che quante grazie volse da me, fei.
 Or che di là dal mal fiume dimora,
più muover non mi può, per quella legge
che fatta fu quando me n'usci' fora.
 Ma se donna del ciel ti muove e regge,
come tu di' , non c'è mestier lusinghe:
bastisi ben che per lei mi richegge.
 Va dunque, e fa che tu cost...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante

Sonnet 06

...nsieri leggiadro, accorto, e buono;
Quando rugge il gran mondo, e scocca il tuono,
S 'arma di se, e d' intero diamante,
Tanto del forse, e d' invidia 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 Milton, John

Sonnet XLV

...SONNET XLV. Passato è 'l tempo omai, lasso! che tanto. HIS ONLY DESIRE IS AGAIN TO BE WITH HER.  Fled—fled, alas! for ever—is the day,Which to my flame some soothing whilom brought;And fled is she of whom I wept and wrote:Yet still the pang, the tear...Read more of this...
by Petrarch, Francesco

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