Famous Xenia Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Xenia poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous xenia poems. These examples illustrate what a famous xenia poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Sherrick, Fannie Isabelle
...bright blossoms,
The summer's after-glow,
When all her early children
Have faded long ago.
Sweet golden-rod and xenia
And crimson marigold,
What dreams of autumn splendor
Your velvet leaves unfold.
Long, long ago the violets
Have closed their sweet blue eyes,
And lain with pale, dead faces
Beneath the summer skies.
And on their graves you blossom
With leaves of gold and red,
And yet—how soon forever
Your beauty will be fled.
The frost will come...Read more of this...
by
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
...THE Epigrams bearing the title of XENIA were written
by Goethe and Schiller together, having been first occasioned by
some violent attacks made on them by some insignificant writers.
They are extremely numerous, but scarcely any of them could be translated
into English. Those here given are merely presented as a specimen.
GOD gave to mortals birth,
In his own image too;
The...Read more of this...
by
Kinnell, Galway
...nostrils as new, God-given impulses
to write.
Goodbye,
you who are, for me, the postmarks again
of shattered towns-Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-
their loneliness
given away in poems, only their solitude kept....Read more of this...
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