A POETICAL TRIBUTE TO

G R E E C E

Here we are offering you some of the most beautiful and significant poems
- in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Russian -
inspired by the eternal message of Greece and Greek civilisation  through  the  ages  to poets in all parts of the world

in English  
 
George Gordon Byron
(1788-1824)
from Don Juan, LXXX
Percy Bushel Shelley
(1792-1822)
Hellas
John Keats
(1795-1821)
On a Grecian Urn
in French Victor Hugo
(1802-1885)
L’enfant
Charles Baudelaire
(1821-1867)
Un voyage à Cythère
in Italian  
 
Lorenzo de’ Medici
(1449-1492)
Apollo e Pan
 
Canto d’Apollo
 
Canto di Pan
Giacomo Leopardi
(1798-1837)
  Ultimo canto di Saffo
Giosuè Carducci
(1835-1907)
A Febo Apolline
 
Alessandrina
 
da Sogno d’estate
Giovanni Pascoli
(1855-1912)
Pensieri
in Spanish Jorge Luis Borges
(1899-1986)
Arte poetica
 
Edipo y el enigma
 
Musica griega
in Portuguese Jorge de Sena
(1919)
Glosa de Menandro
 
  Em Creta, com o Minotauro
  Ganimedes