Famous Tombe Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Tombe poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous tombe poems. These examples illustrate what a famous tombe poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Marvell, Andrew
...in expressing we our selves betray.
For we since thou art gone with heavy doome
Wander like ghosts about thy loved tombe:
And lost in tears have neither sight nor minde
To guide us upward through this Region blinde
Since thou art gone who best that way could'st fearn
Onely our sighs perhaps may thither reach.
And Richard yet where his great Parent led
Beats on the rugged track: He vertue dead
Revives, and by his milder beams assures;
And yet how much of them his grie...Read more of this...
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Sidney, Sir Philip
...at sweete aire which is
Mornes messenger, with rose-enameld skies
Cals each wight to salute the floure of blisse;
In tombe of lids then buried are mine eyes,
Forst by their Lord, who is asham'd to find
Such light in sense, with such a darkned mind.
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O teares! no teares, but raine, from Beauties skies,
Making those lillies and those roses growe,
Which ay most faire, now more then most faire shew,
While gracefull Pitty Beautie beautifies.
O honied sighs!...Read more of this...
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Alighieri, Dante
...dolenti?».
Ed elli a me: «Qui son li eresiarche
con lor seguaci, d'ogne setta, e molto
pi? che non credi son le tombe carche.
Simile qui con simile ? sepolto,
e i monimenti son pi? e men caldi».
E poi ch'a la man destra si fu v?lto,
passammo tra i martiri e li alti spaldi.
Inferno: Canto X
Ora sen va per un secreto calle,
tra 'l muro de la terra e li mart?ri,
lo mio maestro, e io dopo le spalle.
«O virt? somma, che per li empi gi...Read more of this...
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Hugo, Victor
...
("Oh! n'insultez jamais une femme qui tombe.")
{XIV., Sept. 6, 1835.}
I tell you, hush! no word of sneering scorn—
True, fallen; but God knows how deep her sorrow.
Poor girl! too many like her only born
To love one day—to sin—and die the morrow.
What know you of her struggles or her grief?
Or what wild storms of want and woe and pain
Tore down her soul from hon...Read more of this...
by
Donne, John
...ich fire in solid matter
Leave behinde, two houres after.
Once I lov's and dy'd; and am now become
Mine Epitaph and Tombe.
Here dead men speake their last, and so do I;
Love-slaine, loe, here I lye....Read more of this...
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Milton, John
...t thy coarse corrupts in earths dark wombe,
Or that thy beauties lie in wormie bed,
Hid from the world in a low delved tombe;
Could Heav'n for pittie thee so strictly doom?
O no! for something in thy face did shine
Above mortalitie that shew'd thou wast divine.
VI
Resolve me then oh Soul most surely blest
(If so it be that thou these plaints dost hear)
Tell me bright Spirit where e're thou hoverest
Whether above that high first-moving Spheare
Or in the Elisian fields (...Read more of this...
by
Alighieri, Dante
...arà, per tranquillar la via,
veder lo letto de le piante tue».
Come, perché di lor memoria sia,
sovra i sepolti le tombe terragne
portan segnato quel ch'elli eran pria,
onde lì molte volte si ripiagne
per la puntura de la rimembranza,
che solo a' pii dà de le calcagne;
sì vid'io lì, ma di miglior sembianza
secondo l'artificio, figurato
quanto per via di fuor del monte avanza.
Vedea colui che fu nobil creato
più ch'altra creatura, giù dal cielo
folgoreggiando scend...Read more of this...
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Apollinaire, Guillaume
...es blondes
Au regard immobile aux nattes repliées
Le Rhin le Rhin est ivre où les vignes se mirent
Tout l'or des nuits tombe en tremblant s'y refléter
La voix chante toujours à en râle-mourir
Ces fées aux cheveux verts qui incantent l'été
Mon verre s'est brisé comme un éclat de rire...Read more of this...
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Hugo, Victor
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("La tombe dit à la rose.")
{XXXI., June 3, 1837}
The Grave said to the rose
"What of the dews of dawn,
Love's flower, what end is theirs?"
"And what of spirits flown,
The souls whereon doth close
The tomb's mouth unawares?"
The Rose said to the Grave.
The Rose said: "In the shade
From the dawn's tears is made
A perf...Read more of this...
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