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Famous Zurich Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Zurich poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous zurich poems. These examples illustrate what a famous zurich poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...diverse seas of the world
or across that single and solitary sea of diverse
names,
to have been a part of Edinburgh, of Zurich, of the
two Cordobas,
of Colombia and of Texas,
to have returned at the end of changing generations
to the ancient lands of his forebears,
to Andalucia, to Portugal and to those counties
where the Saxon warred with the Dane and they
mixed their blood,
to have wandered through the red and tranquil
labyrinth of London,
to have grown old in so many mirro...Read more of this...
by Borges, Jorge Luis



...[Written just after the preceding one, on a 
mountain overlooking the Lake of Zurich.]

IF I, dearest Lily, did not love thee,

How this prospect would enchant my sight!
And yet if I, Lily, did not love thee,

Could I find, or here, or there, delight?

1775....Read more of this...
by von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

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