Petrarch Poems - Poems about Petrarch

...QUIET murmurs where we sat and spoke about it How the world is losing love and kindness You told me you loved me and now there are tears. I may not always see you and sometimes we doubt ......Read the rest...

...Behold Beatrice, Pitcairn the paradise sunsets lie in Tahiti sunrise, the folly of Easter islands, sanitoriums, deluded, denuded limbos and purgatories, the never evermore Polynesian metaphors t......Read the rest...

... "The Wanton Rapture Blazing" I hear you in the ribbons that sing tied to poles of gallantry where charged with acts of misadventure love carried me to your walls, I wrote ......Read the rest...

...The death of once-great swans I oft' lament; and ask in vain, “Where have all the bards gone?” No more are written lines as eloquent as in the days of Poesy's ancient dawn, when Homer s......Read the rest...

...Petrarch the poet invented a sonnet but to himself he kept it secret Then in England a version came for Surrey&Wyatt claimed his fame......Read the rest...

... Grandpa raised me to listen to the whisper of grace, tracing out miracles on the edge of my faith… by poet ~~~ Grandpa had hair like salt and pepper His hands were old and w......Read the rest...

...Sonneteer Petrarch, with Shakespeare, set the standards: so little space - fourteen short lines, each with just ten syllables. Yet greats like St. ......Read the rest...

...“Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room” by William Wordsworth Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells; And students with their pensive ci......Read the rest...

...If nobody speaks of remarkable things Consciousness hides behind curtains of sleep, Bright lights dim in the cerebral gloom, Thoughts of tomorrow hold no credible guise, A vacuum grows in the......Read the rest...

...The tender leaves of Laurel trees, reveals a name so rare, a crown made of chartreuse shades is believed to show you care. In the fourteenth century poet Petrarch adored his beloved’s m......Read the rest...

...One we go Two three through this life for all they seek the Fifth column they had a Sixth sense to recompense the poor the weak impoverished Ones Petrarch, Dickens, Marx, Harding-Davis, Riis,......Read the rest...

...The meandering Universe or tightly packed with no edges at all The Universe huge and pulsing enough to give seed to the life forms is packed rock into a ball The Universe did it know all along abou......Read the rest...

...Laura Contest Latin for “Laurel” was a tall, strong tree, Queens crowned with such honor and victory, Poet Petrarch in love with the beauty, Beloved Laura, fourteenth century. So many year......Read the rest...

...Cinderella lost her slipper while she ran away from the ball tripped on a step, had nasty fall, her wicked step-sister hit her and got laughed at by the other, but, Cinders, did not......Read the rest...

...The muse inspires her inmost poet: when moved by divine breath she composes sonnets of three quatrains and one couplet with such grace that we send her red roses. Iambic lines by fourteen, five b......Read the rest...