Long Modernization Poems
Long Modernization Poems. Below are the most popular long Modernization by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Modernization poems by poem length and keyword.
Charles D'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Charles d'Orleans: a Medieval Marvel
Spring
by Charles d’Orleans (c. 1394-1465)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab...
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Categories:
modernization, art, autumn, french, prison, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Charles D'Orleans Translations
Spring
by Charles d'Orleans (c.1394-1465)
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Young lovers,
greeting the spring
fling themselves downhill,
making cobblestones ring
with their wild leaps and arcs,
like ecstatic sparks
struck from coal.
What is their brazen goal?
They grab at whatever passes,
so we can...
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Categories:
modernization, bereavement, depression, desire, heartbreak, heaven, romance,
Form:
Roundel
Chaucer Translation: Merciless Beauty
Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...
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Categories:
modernization, beauty, heart, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Roundel
Rondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
Rondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
modernization, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I
My most popular poems on the Internet (I)
A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lot...
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Categories:
modernization, internet, poems, poetry, poets, social, write, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Oasis
Oasis
by Michael R. Burch
for Beth
I want tears to form again
in the shriveled glands of these eyes
dried all these long years
by too much heated knowing.
I want tears to course down
these parched cheeks,...
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Categories:
modernization, marriage,
Form:
Verse
Oft In My Thought: Charles D'Orleans Translation
Oft in My Thought
by Charles D'Orleans
translation by Michael R. Burch
So often in my busy mind I sought,
Around the advent of the fledgling year,
For something pretty that I really ought
To give my lady dear;
But that sweet...
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Categories:
modernization, blessing, christian, faith, god, heartbreak, heaven, lost
Form:
Roundel
Sweet Rose of Virtue: William Dunbar Translation
Sweet Rose of Virtue
by William Dunbar (c. 1460-1530)
loose translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
after William Dunbar
Sweet rose of virtue and of gentleness,
delightful lily of youthful wantonness,
richest in bounty and in beauty clear
and in every virtue that...
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Categories:
modernization, character, desire, devotion, flower, for her, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of Charity
An Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464
In Virgynë the swelt'ring sun grew keen,
Then hot upon the meadows...
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Categories:
modernization, allegory, christian, england, faith, prayer, religion, romantic,
Form:
Ballad
Thomas Chatterton Translation: Under the Willow Tree
Song from Aella: Under the Willow Tree, or, Minstrel's Song
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17 or younger
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch
MYNSTRELLES SONGE ("MINSTREL'S SONG")
O! sing unto my roundelay,
O! drop the briny tear with me,
Dance no more...
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Categories:
modernization, dance, death, love, romance, romantic, song, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Robert Burns Translation: To a Mouse
To a Mouse
by Robert Burns
translation/modernization/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Sleek, tiny, timorous, cowering beast,
Why’s such panic in your breast?
Why dash away, so quick, so rash,
In a frenzied flash
When I would be loath to run after you
With...
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Categories:
modernization, animal, farm, home, house, life, nature, sympathy,
Form:
Verse
Geoffrey Chaucer translations 2 by Michael R Burch
"Cantus Troili" from "Troilus and Criseyde"
by Petrarch
translation by Geoffrey Chaucer
modernization by Michael R. Burch
If there’s no love, O God, why then, so low?
And if love is, what thing, and which, is he?
If love is good,...
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Categories:
modernization, death, drink, earth, god, love, lust, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
Robert Burns Translation: Banks O' Doon
Banks o' Doon
by Robert Burns
modern English translation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, banks and hills of lovely Doon,
How can you bloom so fresh and fair;
How can you chant, ecstatic birds,
When I'm so weary, full of care!
You'll...
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Categories:
modernization, bird, love, river, romance, romantic, rose, song,
Form:
Verse
Sonnets C-Civ
“Whoso List to Hunt” is a famous early English sonnet written by Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542) in the mid-16th century.
Whoever Longs to Hunt
by Sir Thomas Wyatt
loose translation/interpretation/modernization by Michael R. Burch
Whoever longs to hunt,...
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Categories:
modernization, animal, anxiety, bereavement, betrayal, break up, crush,
Form:
Sonnet
Robert Burns Translation: Auld Lang Syne
Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?
For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed, once...
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Categories:
modernization, age, drink, friend, friendship, memory, old, remember,
Form:
Verse
Robert Burns Translation: Comin Thro the Rye
Comin Thro the Rye
by Robert Burns
modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, Jenny's all wet, poor body,
Jenny's seldom dry;
She's draggin' all her petticoats
Comin' through the rye.
Comin' through the rye, poor body,
Comin' through the...
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Categories:
modernization, body, desire, kiss, love, lust, romantic, romantic
Form:
Verse
Second Eden
I bow my head Your Majesty, Thou reign on heaven and earth
I wonder whence I look around to see Thy marvelous craftsmanship.
I exalt Thee considering how great Thou art and how beautifully for my mirth
Made...
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Categories:
modernization, environment, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Self-Censorship
Self -Censorship, 2011
Vickie M. Ortiz Vazquez
Shut up
Stop, just shut up
I am asking you to shut up
SHUT THE HECK UP
Not again, how many time before you stop
Don’t give that look; as if you don’t understand
Left, right,...
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Categories:
modernization, life
Form:
Free verse
The Two Faces of China
China, the rising giant;
China, the ruthless tyrant.
China, proud host of the Olympic Games,
China, notorious records of shame.
China, Olympic torch burning bright;
China, missing flame of human rights.
China, model of reform and openness;
China, cruel crackdowns with patent...
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Categories:
modernization, political
Form:
I do not know?
Chaucer Translation: Welcome Summer
Welcome, Summer
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Now welcome, Summer, with your sun so soft,
since you’ve banished Winter with her icy weather
and driven away her long nights’ frosts.
Saint Valentine, in the heavens aloft,
the songbirds...
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Categories:
modernization, heaven, sky, song, summer, sun, weather, winter,
Form:
Roundel
Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali 11
Gitanjali 11
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation/modernization by Michael R. Burch
Leave this vain chanting and singing and counting of beads:
what Entity do you seek in this lonely dark temple corner with all the doors shut?
Open your eyes...
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Categories:
modernization, clothes, devotion, god, prayer, religion, religious, work,
Form:
Free verse
My Roots
My Roots
As dark as charcoal-as dark as rich soil of Africa -
Is the core of my traditional and beliefs – it’s obscure
Knowing that deep beneath my skin, soul and spirit is hidden the lineage
My unborn...
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Categories:
modernization, art, culture,
Form:
Acrostic
Slavery Or Exploitation
This poem is not meant to be a speech nor is it written to offend or give anyone blame.
It just a mere observation of how today leaders choose to bring civilasation back into the slave...
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Categories:
modernization, abuse, africa, betrayal, black african american, columbus
Form:
Free verse
Sir Thomas Wyatt Translations 1
SIR THOMAS WYATT TRANSLATIONS 1
Whoso List to Hunt ("Whoever Longs to Hunt")
by Sir Thomas Wyatt
loose translation/interpretation/modernization by Michael R. Burch
Whoever longs to hunt, I know the deer;
but as for me, alas!, I may no more.
This...
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Categories:
modernization, grief, heart, love, poems, poetry, poets, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Its Destined
What has been done on heaven
Will be done on earth,
They coming, the new movement set,
The mass delusions created by the state
The lies that built the world
The mason architecture
The great pyramid, the human project
Mutating...
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Categories:
modernization, anger, deep, destiny, life,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme