The most beautiful tale or poem you've read....?

Question

what the question says :D

thanks :)

Answer 1

There's this poem that my best friend wrote a few days ago.

It may not be the most beautiful thing to you, but to me, it's just utterly amazing.

Answer 2

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''WALKING NEXT DAY UPON THE FATAL SHORE"

from THE ATHEIST'S TRAGEDY by CYRIL TOURNEUR

WALKING next day upon the fatal shore,

Among the slaughtered bodies of our men

Which the full-stomached sea had cast upon

The sands, it was my unhappy chance to light

Upon a face, whose favour when it lived,

My astonished mind informed me I had seen.

He lay in's armour, as if that had been

His coffin; and the weeping sea, like one

Whose milder temper doth lament the death

Of him whom in his rage he slew, runs up

The shore, embraces him, kisses his cheek,

Goes back again, and forces up the sands

To bury him, and every time it parts

Sheds tears upon him, till at last (as if

It could no longer endure to see the man

Whom it had slain, yet loath to leave him) with

A kind of unresolved unwilling pace,

Winding her waves one in another, like

A man that folds his arms or wrings his hands

For grief, ebbed from the body, and descends

As if it would sink down into the earth,

And hide itself for shame of such a deed.

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Answer 3

"Mattina" ( in english "Morning") by Giuseppe Ungaretti is the most beautiful poem, in my opinion:

M'illumino

d'immenso

translated:

I light up

from the immense