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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ROME BURIED IN HER RUINS, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst these scenes, o pilgrim, seek'st thou rome? Last Line: Nought but the wave, a fugitive, -- remains. Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Rome, Italy | |||
AMIDST these scenes, O pilgrim! seek'st thou Rome! Vain is thy search -- the pomp of Rome is fled; Her silent Aventine is glory's tomb; Her walls, her shrines, but relics of the dead. That hill, where Caesars dwelt in other days, Forsaken mourns, where once it towered sublime; Each mouldering medal now far less displays The triumphs won by Latium, than by Time. Tiber alone survives -- the passing wave, That bathed her towers, now murmnrs by her grave. Wailing, with plaintive sound, her fallen fanes. Rome! of thine ancient grandeur, all is past, That seemed for years eternal framed to last, Nought but the wave, a fugitive, -- remains. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS ROMAN ELEGIES by JOSEPH BRODSKY ROMAN DIARY: 1951 by JOHN CIARDI VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 7. ROME by SARA TEASDALE ROMANESQUE ARCHES by TOMAS TRANSTROMER AN APARTMENT WITH A VIEW by JOHN CIARDI MANIFEST DESTINY by JORIE GRAHAM RUINES OF ROME by JOACHIM DU BELLAY SONNET: DEATH-WARNINGS by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS MADRIGAL: THE RESTLESS LOVER by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS |
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