Famous Visto Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Visto poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous visto poems. These examples illustrate what a famous visto poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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...finer whore.
For what his Virro painted, built, and planted?
Only to show, how many tastes he wanted.
What brought Sir Visto's ill got wealth to waste?
Some daemon whisper'd, "Visto! have a taste."
Heav'n visits with a taste the wealthy fool,
And needs no rod but Ripley with a rule.
See! sportive fate, to punish awkward pride,
Bids Bubo build, and sends him such a guide:
A standing sermon, at each year's expense,
That never coxcomb reach'd magnificence!
You show us, Rome was...Read more of this...
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Pope, Alexander
...causa sin producir?
¿Hay potencia sin objeto?
Pues siendo tú el más hermanso,
grande, soberano exceso
que ha visto en círculos tantos
el verde torno del tiempo,
¿para qué mi amor te vio?
¿Por qué mi fe te encarezco,
cuando es cada prenda tuya
firma de mi cautiverio?
Vuelve a ti misma los ojos
y hallarás, en ti y en ellos,
no sólo el amor posible,
mas preciso el rendimiento,
entre tanto que el cuidado,
en contemplarte suspenso,
que vivo...Read more of this...
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Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sor
...era e bello e di gentile aspetto,
ma l'un de' cigli un colpo avea diviso.
Quand'io mi fui umilmente disdetto
d'averlo visto mai, el disse: «Or vedi»;
e mostrommi una piaga a sommo 'l petto.
Poi sorridendo disse: «Io son Manfredi,
nepote di Costanza imperadrice;
ond'io ti priego che, quando tu riedi,
vadi a mia bella figlia, genitrice
de l'onor di Cicilia e d'Aragona,
e dichi 'l vero a lei, s'altro si dice.
Poscia ch'io ebbi rotta la persona
di due punte mortali, io mi re...Read more of this...
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Alighieri, Dante
...SONNET CLIII. Se Virgilio ed Omero avessin visto. THE MOST FAMOUS POETS OF ANTIQUITY WOULD HAVE SUNG HER ONLY, HAD THEY SEEN HER. Had tuneful Maro seen, and Homer old,The living sun which here mine eyes behold,The best powers they had join'd of either lyre,Read more of this...
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Petrarch, Francesco
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