The poems of literary classicism have a style of writing that consciously emulates the forms and theme of classical antiquity.
Literary classicism was a popular movement in the mid-1700s until about 1800. It consisted in the search for the ideal, both in form and in content.
Poems of literary classicism
This selection of poems from literary classicism contains poems by Spanish writers.
However, with respect to poems of literary classicism in other latitudes, the authors emphasized: Dante (Italian author, with his epic poem The Divine Comedy), Alexander Pope (English author, with The Ripped Curl, among others), Robinson Jeffers American author of the twentieth century, with Cawdor and other poems) and many others.
The popcorn (by José Iglesias de la Casa)
A white dove
Snow,
it has bitten me in the soul;
a lot hurts
Sweet dove,
How do you intend
to hurt the soul
who loves you
Your beautiful peak
offered pleasures,
but in my chest
bit like a worm.
Well tell me, ungrateful,
Why do you pretend
to become ill
giving you goods
Oh! nobody lives
of aleves birds;
that to him whom they lie,
much more hurt.
A white dove
Snow,
has bit me in the soul:
a lot of hurts
Renouncing love and lyrical poetry on the occasion of the death of Phillies (by José Cadalso)
While he lived the sweet garment of mine,
Love, sound verses inspired me;
I obeyed the law you gave me,
and his strength gave me poetry.
But alas! that since that fateful day
that deprived me of the good that you admired,
to the point without empire in me you found,
and I found my Talia in want of ardor.
For it does not erase its law the Hard Grim Reaper,
to whom Jove himself does not resist,
I forget the Pindo and I leave the beauty.
And you, too, of your ambition give up,
and next to Phillies they have grave
your useless arrow and my sad lyre.
Oda XXXIV ( from Juan Meléndez Valdés)
With that same fire
that your eyes watch,
you give me death
and to your life dove.
You love her
with them of joy,
and the raw Love for them
saetas mil pulls me away.
She at every glance
go, Fili, a caress;
I, the rigors alone
of your haughty haze.
Thus I exclaim a thousand times:
«Who was a popcorn!
I would change before your eyes
my sorrows in delights."
The bee and the cuckoo (Fable of Tomás de Iriarte)
Leaving the apiary,
said the bee to the cuckoo.
Please shut up, because you will not let me.
Your unpleasant voice work.
There is no such tedious bird
in singing like you:
Cucú, cucú and more cucú,
and always the same thing!
Do you like my singing the same?
(the cuckoo answered:)
For faith that I can not find
variety in your honeycomb;
and therefore that of the own way
you manufacture one hundred,
if I do not invent anything new,
everything in you is very old.
To this the bee replies:
In useful work,
lack of variety
is not what is most detrimental
but in work destined
just to the taste and fun,
if the invention is not varied,
everything else is nothing.
To some friends (by Félix María Samaniego)
Tenths
To give me what to understand,
offer to my choice
three beautiful things that are
dream, money or woman.
Hear, then, my opinion.
in this loose example:
his mother a determined child
soup or egg offered,
and the boy answered her:
Mother, I... everything upset.
But if you insist
in which of the three choose,
the difficulty is slack,
to see it at the moment you go.
I hope you do not have me
Rude, if to say
I prepare myself to comply
truth without pretenses;
that the commandments say
the eighth, not lie.
It will not be my choice
the woman... because I know
what is she so... that...
the men... but, chitón!
I have veneration;
and by me they will not know
what better way to lose
the devil to Job his virtue,
took children and health
and the woman left him.
Dream, I just have to want
the precise to me,
because sometimes he leaves her
when he needs it most.
Cause I can not see,
in any way a complaint,
for a flea leaves me;
he leaves and why I do not know;
and makes me so angry that
I have it between eyebrows and eyebrows.
Oh money without a second,
spring of such portent
what do you put in motion
this machine of the world!
For you, the deep sea
on a stick the sailor;
for you the brave warrior
seek the greatest danger
For, despite Fuenmayor's,
I prefer you, money.
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