Famous Terra Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Terra poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous terra poems. These examples illustrate what a famous terra poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Black fiend, infernal!
While Highlandmen hate tools an’ taxes;
While moorlan’s herds like guid, fat braxies;
While terra firma, on her axis,
Diurnal turns;
Count on a friend, in faith an’ practice,
In Robert Burns.
POSTCRIPTMY memory’s no worth a preen;
I had amaist forgotten clean,
Ye bade me write you what they mean
By this “new-light,”
’Bout which our herds sae aft hae been
Maist like to fight.
In days when mankind were but callans
At grammar, logic, an’ sic t...Read more of this...
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Burns, Robert
...
Let’s sing our sang.
My pen I here fling to the door,
And kneel, ye Pow’rs! and warm implore,
“Tho’ I should wander Terra o’er,
In all her climes,
Grant me but this, I ask no more,
Aye rowth o’ rhymes.
“Gie dreepin roasts to countra lairds,
Till icicles hing frae their beards;
Gie fine braw claes to fine life-guards,
And maids of honour;
An’ yill an’ whisky gie to cairds,
Until they sconner.
“A title, Dempster 1 merits it;
A garter gie to Willie Pitt;
Gie wealth t...Read more of this...
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Burns, Robert
...atal gold was the assuring bait
To Spain's rapacious mind, hence rose the wars
From Chili to the Caribbean sea,
O'er Terra-Firma and La Plata wide.
Peru then sunk in ruins, great before
With pompous cities, monuments superb
Whose tops reach'd heav'n. But we more happy boast
No golden metals in our peaceful land,
No flaming diamond, precious emerald,
Or blushing saphire, ruby, chrysolite
Or jasper red; more noble riches flow
From agriculture and th' industrious swai...Read more of this...
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Brackenridge, Hugh Henry
...(A Reminiscence, 1893)
She wore a 'terra-cotta' dress,
And we stayed, because of the pelting storm,
Within the hansom's dry recess,
Though the horse had stopped; yea, motionless
We sat on, snug and warm.
Then the downpour ceased, to my sharp sad pain,
And the glass that had screened our forms before
Flew up, and out she sprang to her door:
I should have kissed her if the rain
Had lasted a ...Read more of this...
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Hardy, Thomas
...them that after came,
But, in great Heaven's name,
How he should ever think
That on the other brink
Of this huge waste terra firma should be,
Is a pure wonder, I must say, to me.
How a man ever should hope to get thither,
E'e'n if he knew of there being another side;
But to suppose he should come any whither,
Sailing right on into chaos untried,
Across the whole ocean,
In spite of the motion,
To stick to the notion
That in some nook or bend
Of a sea without end
He should fi...Read more of this...
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Clough, Arthur Hugh
...s where they worked all day
on farms built like steps up the sides
of steep mountains, graceful women carrying water
in terra cotta jugs on their heads.
What I know of these women, whom I never met,
I know from my mother, a few pictures
of my grandmother, standing at the doorway
of the fieldstone house in Santo Mauro,
the stories my mother told of them,
but I know them most of all from watching
my mother, her strong arms lifting sheets
out of the cold water in the wringer was...Read more of this...
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Gillan, Maria Mazziotti
...een,
2.42 As were the subjects of our (Pallas) Queen:
2.43 Her Sea-men through all straits the world did round,
2.44 Terra incognitæ might know her sound.
2.45 Her Drake came laded home with Spanish gold,
2.46 Her Essex took Cadiz, their Herculean hold.
2.47 But time would fail me, so my wit would too,
2.48 To tell of half she did, or she could do.
2.49 Semiramis to her is but obscure;
2.50 More infamy than fame she did procure.
2.51 She plac'd her glory but on Babe...Read more of this...
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Bradstreet, Anne
...a cui s'ammoglia,
e pi? saranno ancora, infin che 'l veltro
verr?, che la far? morir con doglia.
Questi non ciber? terra n? peltro,
ma sapienza, amore e virtute,
e sua nazion sar? tra feltro e feltro.
Di quella umile Italia fia salute
per cui mor? la vergine Cammilla,
Eurialo e Turno e Niso di ferute.
Questi la caccer? per ogne villa,
fin che l'avr? rimessa ne lo 'nferno,
l? onde 'nvidia prima dipartilla.
Ond'io per lo tuo me' penso e discerno
che tu mi segu...Read more of this...
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Alighieri, Dante
...ls and shall
yet mate with many more, until the Greyhound
arrives, inflicting painful death on her.
Questi non ciber? terra n? peltro,
ma sapienza, amore e virtute,
e sua nazion sar? tra feltro e feltro .
That Hound will never feed on land or pewter,
but find his fare in wisdom, love, and virtue;
his place of birth shall be between two felts.
Di quella umile Italia fia salute
per cui mor? la vergine Cammilla,
Eurialo e Turno e Niso di ferute .
He will restore low-lying...Read more of this...
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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,
whi...Read more of this...
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Alighieri, Dante
...s anyone who stretches out.
Come d'autunno si levan le foglie
l'una appresso de l'altra, fin che 'l ramo
vede a la terra tutte le sue spoglie ,
As, in the autumn, leaves detach themselves,
first one and then the other, till the bough
sees all its fallen garments on the ground,
Aen.VI.
similemente il mal seme d'Adamo
gittansi di quel lito ad una ad una,
per cenni come augel per suo richiamo .
similarly, the evil seed of Adam
descended from the shoreline one ...Read more of this...
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Alighieri, Dante
...inci?: «Tu stesso ti fai grosso
col falso imaginar, s? che non vedi
ci? che vedresti se l'avessi scosso.
Tu non se' in terra, s? come tu credi;
ma folgore, fuggendo il proprio sito,
non corse come tu ch'ad esso riedi».
S'io fui del primo dubbio disvestito
per le sorrise parolette brevi,
dentro ad un nuovo pi? fu' inretito,
e dissi: «Gi? contento requievi
di grande ammirazion; ma ora ammiro
com'io trascenda questi corpi levi».
Ond'ella, appresso d'un pio sospiro,
li occhi ...Read more of this...
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Alighieri, Dante
...walk against me is my sun."
"Synagogue" is a word I never heard,
We called it shul, the Yiddish word for school.
Elms, terra-cotta, the ocean a few blocks east.
"Lay institution": she taught me we didn't think
God lived in it. The rabbi is just a teacher.
But what about the hereditary priests,
Descendants of the Cohanes of the Temple,
Like Walter Holtz--I called him Uncle Walter,
When I was small. A big man with a face
Just like a boxer dog or a cartoon sergeant.
She told m...Read more of this...
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Pinsky, Robert
...n me de' suoi raggi l'appoggio.
Io mi volsi dallato con paura
d'essere abbandonato, quand'io vidi
solo dinanzi a me la terra oscura;
e 'l mio conforto: «Perché pur diffidi?»,
a dir mi cominciò tutto rivolto;
«non credi tu me teco e ch'io ti guidi?
Vespero è già colà dov'è sepolto
lo corpo dentro al quale io facea ombra:
Napoli l'ha, e da Brandizio è tolto.
Ora, se innanzi a me nulla s'aombra,
non ti maravigliar più che d'i cieli
che l'uno a l'altro raggio non ingombra.
A...Read more of this...
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Alighieri, Dante
...SESTINA I. A qualunque animale alberga in terra. NIGHT BRINGS HIM NO REST. HE IS THE PREY OF DESPAIR. To every animal that dwells on earth,Except to those which have in hate the sun,Their time of labour is while lasts the day;But when high hea...Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...SONNET CXXIII. I' vidi in terra angelici costumi. THE EFFECTS OF HER GRIEF. On earth reveal'd the beauties of the skies,Angelic features, it was mine to hail;[Pg 151]Features, which wake my...Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...SONNET CXXXI. Or che 'l ciel e la terra e 'l vento tace. NIGHT BRINGS PEACE TO ALL SAVE HIM. O'er earth and sky her lone watch silence keeps,And bird and beast in stirless slumber lie,Her starry chariot Night conducts on high,And in it...Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...SONNET CXXXIV. Quando Amor i begli occhi a terra inchina. LAURA SINGS. If Love her beauteous eyes to earth incline,And all her soul concentring in a sigh,Then breathe it in her voice of melody,Floating clear, soft, angelical, divine;Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...SONNET XXII. Più di me lieta non si vede a terra. ON THE SAME SUBJECT. Than me more joyful never reach'd the shoreA vessel, by the winds long tost and tried,Whose crew, late hopeless on the waters wide,To a good God their thanks, now prostrate,...Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
...SONNET XXXII. Quanta invidia ti porto, avara terra. HE ENVIES EARTH, HEAVEN, AND DEATH THEIR POSSESSION OF HIS TREASURE. O earth, whose clay-cold mantle shrouds that face,And veils those eyes that late so brightly shone,[Pg 260]Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
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