Famous Usa Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Usa poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous usa poems. These examples illustrate what a famous usa poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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Alighieri, Dante
...olpa contraria li dispaia.
Questi fuor cherci, che non han coperchio
piloso al capo, e papi e cardinali,
in cui usa avarizia il suo soperchio».
E io: «Maestro, tra questi cotali
dovre' io ben riconoscere alcuni
che furo immondi di cotesti mali».
Ed elli a me: «Vano pensiero aduni:
la sconoscente vita che i f? sozzi
ad ogne conoscenza or li fa bruni.
In etterno verranno a li due cozzi:
questi resurgeranno del sepulcro
col pugno chiuso, e questi ...Read more of this...
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Levine, Philip
...ncey Street in 1946
as the rain came down. The worst part is this
is not from a bad movie. I'd read Dos Passos'
USA and thought, "Before the night ends
my life will change." A stranger would stop
to ask for my help, a single stranger
more needy than I, if such a woman
were possible. I still had cigarettes,
damp matches, and an inaccurate map
of Manhattan in my head, and the change
from the one $20 traveler's check
I'd cashed in a dairy restaurant where
the ama...Read more of this...
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Ali, Muhammad
...To make America the greatest is my goal,
So I beat the Russians, and I beat the Pole,
and for the USA won the medal of gold.
Italians said: "You're Greater than the Cassius of old´´.
We like your name, we like your game,
So make Rome your home if you will.
I said I appreciate your kind hospitality,
But the USA is my country still,
'Cause they're waiting to welcome me in Louisville....Read more of this...
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