Best Sophocles Poems
Below are the all-time best Sophocles poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sophocles poems written by PoetrySoup members
Love"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love.”
Sophocles, Greek Poet
When love meets your silhouette at twilight,
heart...
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Categories:
sophocles, devotion,
Form:
Sonnet
Love"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love." Sophocles, Greek Poet
In a garden of whispering twilight
Silent love...
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Categories:
sophocles, love,
Form:
Sonnet
Love
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love."
Sophocles, Greek Poet
If love was a metaphor for flowers,
our souls...
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Categories:
sophocles, love,
Form:
Sonnet
The Alchemist's TalePrologue
Of the alchemist’s physique I expound upon thee
A white feathered cap wore he jauntily, cocked to a side.
His sight like a moles’, aided by...
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Categories:
sophocles, imaginationme, night, me, night,
Form:
Light Verse
LOVE"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love."
Sophocles, Greek Poet
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Forever in the caverns of my heart
Roam spirits...
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Categories:
sophocles, love,
Form:
Sonnet
The ParthenonOh, Parthenon,*
Sublime aesthetic structure,
Embodiment of unparalleled elegance,
Incarnation of history, philosophy, and sciences,
Everlasting beacon of human civilization,
Glorification of architecture,
Pride of the western world
You, deathless...
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Categories:
sophocles, art, beauty, culture, western,
Form:
Free verse
Greek TragedyWaiting in line,
Before the ATM of closed banks for 60 Euros to withdraw under the scourging sun
Old and invalid people are submitted...
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Categories:
sophocles, courage, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
UncertaintyThere cannot be two identical things in the world. Two
hydrogen atoms
offer infinite locations within their shells for electrons.
Thus, nothing can be definitely eventually known.
All to...
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Categories:
sophocles, basketball, bird, history, hope,
Form:
Verse
An Ode To Ancient GreeceOh, ancient Greece,
How much you have filled my soul.
The aesthetics of your kind,
Are more than satisfied
By your beautiful eyes.
The epics of grace,
Odysseus...
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Categories:
sophocles, history
Form:
I do not know?
Freedom Was Always Calling - a Poet's Prison MemoirThroughout the years of bars and fences, several things kept me from falling
My Faith in God, My Mom, My Writing...and, that Freedom Was Always Calling
The...
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Categories:
sophocles, freedom, imagination, jesus, loneliness,
Form:
Couplet
The Three Pearls of LifeThe Three Pearls of Life
A poem about the three princesses of my life, inspired by Ancient Greek Wisdom
S, M and M are the three pearls...
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Categories:
sophocles, appreciation, beauty, life, love,
Form:
Ballad
You Never ListenedYou Never Listened
by Michael R. Burch
You never listened,
though each night the rain
wove its patterns again
and trembled and glistened...
You were not watching,
though each night...
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Categories:
sophocles, baby, birth, children, extended
Form:
Sonnet
Antonymous : Theatre Parallels Cinema
Theatre
ancient, organic
previewing, staging, performing
Sophocles, Chekhov, Ray, Tarantino
filming, screening, releasing
modern, edited
Cinema.
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Date: 22 / 10 / 2016...
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Categories:
sophocles, art, film, inspiration, tribute,
Form:
Diamante
Engineer's BrainIs there woman alive who loves engineer’s brain?
Seems like all that we do is cause pain,
One who jumps to his feet at cry “This doesn’t...
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Categories:
sophocles, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The NarcissistTurning into an angelic beast,
Here is the ugly Narcissist....
For others! She cared least,
Here's the ugly Narcissist.
When the plot of life got revealed,
She had a role...
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Categories:
sophocles, faith,
Form:
Rhyme