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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DIALOGUE IN PURGATORY, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sister, the sun has ceased to shine
Last Line: "to set much store by it."
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


A DREAM, AFTER READING DANTE'S EPISODE OF PAULO & FRANCESCA, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As hermes once took to his feathers light
Last Line: I floated with, about that melancholy storm.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: On A Dream
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


A FEAR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I roamed the woods today and seemed to hear
Last Line: "you died long since, and all this thing is hell!"
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Death; Fear; Dead, The


A LITTLE LANGUAGE, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a little language of my cat, tho dante says
Last Line: As if crouching, springs / to life
Variant Title(s): A Little Language
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Language; Words; Vocabulary


A TRIBUTE TO DANTE, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If dante mourns, there whosoe'er he be
Last Line: Nothing agrees that's great or generous.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


BEATRICE, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Thro' dante's hands in dreamy vigil clasp'd
Last Line: Her love the noblest gift god's self hath given.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


BEATRICE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Send out the singers - let the room be still
Last Line: O lift me up and I shall reach the sun!
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism


BEATRICE TO DANTE; SONNET, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Regard me well: I am thy love
Last Line: "that thou alone art hers and she is thine."
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


BOSTON TO FLORENCE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Proud of her clustering spires, her new-built towers
Last Line: And every language knows the song divine!
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Florence, Italy


CONSOLATION, by ALFRED DE MUSSET    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor restless mortal, creature of a day!
Last Line: Twill live forever with thy soul on high!
Subject(s): Consolation; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


DANTE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brightly shone the brow of dante
Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


DANTE, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dante am I - minerva's son, who knew
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


DANTE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who, mid the grasses of the field
Last Line: Crowns the last century's closing year.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Poetry & Poets


DANTE, by JULIA JOHNSON DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Always apart, while other children played
Last Line: Strange, lonely child, and vision-haunted man.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


DANTE, by RICHARD GARNETT (1835-1906)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poet, whose unscarr'd feet have trodden hell
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


DANTE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even after his death he did not return %to the city that nursed him
Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


DANTE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ere blasts from northern lands
Last Line: To lighten day . . And dark to darken night.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


DANTE, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To be so poor. No heaven, no abyss
Last Line: For the inside of the eternal pearl, l'etterna margarita
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


DANTE AND ARIOSTO, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If dante breathes on me his awful breath
Last Line: "I whisper: -- ""ariosto, wait for me!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Ariosto, Ludovico (1474-1533); Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


DANTE AT VERONA, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of florence and of beatrice
Last Line: Were steeper found than heaven or hell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


DANTE SAYS, by PHILIP DACEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Give me a break
Last Line: Won't even know %I've been gone
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


DANTE TO BEATRICE; SONNET, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see thee. Gliding towards me with slow pace
Last Line: I lived, loved, suffered, sung -- for thy sole praise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


DANTE: BOOK ONE, 3 (1), by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a little language of my cat, tho dante says
Last Line: As if crouching, springs %to life
Variant Title(s): A Little Languag
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Language


DANTIS TENEBRAE (IN MEMORY OF MY FATHER), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And didst thou know indeed, when at the font
Last Line: On thy bowed head, my father, fell the night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Fathers; Rossetti, Gabriele Pasquale (1783-1854); Translating & Interpreting


DEAR DEVOTIONAL, by JOSHUA KRYAH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bird, that I did not mean your song
Last Line: They wait for their eyes to adjust, %to be pecked out by birds
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Memory; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages


DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 12, by DANTE ALIGHIERI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Side by side, as oxen yoked together
Last Line: And as he watched me do it my leader smiled
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Hell


DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS IN HIS MORTAL STATE, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Renounce the greatest happiness on earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


FIAMMETTA: SONNET. TO DANTE IN PARADISE, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dante, if thou within the sphere of love
Last Line: Until I reach her and am comforted.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


GEMMA DE MANETTO DONATI, by CYNTHIA L. HAVEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: What has love like ours to do with dust?
Last Line: What has love like ours to do with dust?
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Donati, Gemma (3rd Century)


HOW LISA LOVED THE KING, by MARY ANN EVANS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Six hundred years ago, in dante's time
Last Line: Let us not fail to pay the grateful thanks we owe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Household Employees; Love; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Servants; Domestics; Maids


ILLUSTRATION TO DANTE, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here are paolo and francesca
Last Line: Well, he could do tenderness. %my spine trickles with little white flames
Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


IN AN ATELIER, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I pray you, do not turn your head
Last Line: Somehow -- as if you'd just been kissed!
Variant Title(s): In An Artist's Studio
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Models; Paintings & Painters


IN HELL WITH VIRG AND DAN: CANTO 17, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yo, dan, just give a look at this repulsive creature
Last Line: And, man, when it unloads, it's outta there, like gone.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Translating & Interpreting; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women; Women's Rights; Vergil; Feminism


IN THE ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE, VERONA, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two architects of italy - austere
Last Line: Here on the empty sand, a banish'd man.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Roman Empire; Theater & Theaters


LETTER TO DANTE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm doing you a wrong and well I know it
Last Line: That hell's the place where dante left argenti
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Translating And Interpreting


MEZZA RAGNA, by TONI LA REE BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stuck somewhere in the middle
Last Line: Between two possibilities %mezza donna, mezza dea
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


NATIONE NON MORIBUS (1265-1321), by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shrug off the world( (as churning boys
Last Line: To breathe that air! And breathless...At the pole …
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


NO PASTEL PRINCESS, by TONI LA REE BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: You expected maybe a %patel princess from oz?
Last Line: And put your playthings down
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


ON A BUST OF DANTE, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See, from this counterfeit of him
Last Line: The marks have sunk of dante's mind.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Sculpture & Sculptors; Writing & Writers


ON A PALMETTO, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through all that year-scarred agony of height
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Palmetto Trees


ON A PORTRAIT OF DANTE BY GIOTTO, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Can this be thou who, lean and pale
Last Line: Like thine, scarred veteran of a lifelong war!
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337); Portraits


ON THE 'VITA NUOVA' OF DANTE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As he that loves oft looks on the dear form
Last Line: Offence: 'for lo! Of such my kingdom is.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Love


OUR HELLS, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Milton unlocked hell for us
Subject(s): Hell; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Milton, John (1608-1674)


OUT OF THE ITALIAN, by JOEL ELIAS SPINGARN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The diamond, o gods, you create
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


PURGATORIO, 18 / DANTE ALIGHIERI, SELS., by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh how the mind loves immediately whatever pleases it
Last Line: Though the wax is
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Love


REVENANTS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At a table in the corner two people
Last Line: Instant in a puzzled way - he takes %her hadnas they go on talking softly
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Love


REVISITANTS, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We who went where dante went
Last Line: No man cried aloud.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Heaven; Paradise


ROBERT BROWNING, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How blind the toil that burrows like the mole
Last Line: The tragic mask of wise euripides.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Shelley, William (1816-1819)


SESTINA, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In fair provence, the land of lute and rose
Last Line: Yet have we too known woe, and worn thy rose.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Love - Complaints; Provence, France


SEVENTH CIRCLE, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And after the fight the moment of awakening
Subject(s): Boys; Fightng; War; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


SONNET, by LEONARD BACON (1887-1954)    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dante was naif although he had an inkling
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


SONNET: 9. DANTE AND VIRGIL, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When lost francesca sobbed her broken tale
Last Line: A stately type of all his stately kind.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil


SONNET: DANTE (1), by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What should be said of him cannot be said
Last Line: Ne'er walked the earth a greater man than he.
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Italian Renaissance


SONNET: DANTE (2), by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tuscan, that wanderest through the realms of gloom
Last Line: "thy voice along the cloister whispers ""peace!"
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


SONNET: HE INTERPRETS DANTE ALLIGHIERI'S DREAM, by DANTE DA MAIANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of that wherein thou art a questioner
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


SONNET: HE RAILS AGAINST DANTE, WHO CENSURED HIS HOMAGE TO BECCHINA, by CECCO ANGIOLIERI DA SIENA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dante alighieri in becchina's praise
Last Line: And in this way we'll singe his skin for him.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


SONNET: INSCRIPTION FOR A PORTRAIT OF DANTE, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dante alighieri, a dark oracle
Last Line: For whom no envy can make dim the truth.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


SONNET: TO DANTE, by GUIDO CAVALCANTI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Returning from its daily quest, my spirit
Last Line: And leave to thee thy true integrity.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


SPELL AGAINST RUIN, by FRANK X. GASPAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am reading dante, late at night, trying
Last Line: I am willing to hold the book any way you wish
Subject(s): Books; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


THE CROWN OF THORNS, by JESSE WILLIS JEFFERIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What recompense is theirs who, scorning gain and glory
Last Line: A wreath ineffable above his cross behold!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Composers; Crowns; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Egypt; Galileo (1564-1642); Jesus Christ; Love; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Poetry & Poets; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Sphinx; Thorns; Galileo Galilei


THE FESTIVAL OF BEATRICE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dante, sole standing on the heavenward height
Last Line: From shore to mountain and from alp to sea.
Subject(s): Beatrice Portinari (1266-1290); Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Heaven; Paradise


THE NEW LIFE, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps they laughed at dante in his youth
Last Line: So answers dante to the heart of youth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Youth


THE PROPHECY OF DANTE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more in man's frail world! Which I
Last Line: And make them own the prophet in his tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Exiles


THE PROPHECY OF DANTE: DEDICATION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady! If for the cold and cloudy clime
Last Line: Ah! To what effort would it not persuade?
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Italy; Italians


TO BEATRICE ON HER FIRST INTERVIEW WITH DANTE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Daughter of portinari, thou hast met
Last Line: With thine eight summers and thy crimson gown!
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


TO BEATRICE; JUNE, 1890, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice blessed among women was thy lot
Last Line: Blessing and blest, while god and right endure.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


TO DANTE, by VITTORIO AMEDEO ALFIERI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Great father, alighieri, if from the skies
Last Line: "to meet with such, pass by nor deign a glance."
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


TO DANTE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your sonnet, just like
Last Line: And then from it two others poured %more delicate
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Dreams


TO DANTE, by HOWARD NEMEROV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To write an epic with an all-star cast
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); War


TO DANTE, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: King, that hast reign'd six hundred years
Last Line: Cast at thy feet one flower that fades away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


TO DANTE ALIGHIERI, by FRANCES LANCE FERRERO    Poem Text                    
First Line: O mighty master of the human song
Last Line: Sad exile, now at home in every land!
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Wellesley College


TO DANTE IN RAVENNA: 1265-1915, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: There in thy marble of ravenna, - dust
Last Line: Dust of ravenna,—thine is scorn indeed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Ravenna, Italy


TRIOLET: 2, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If you were lady beatrice
Last Line: And I the florentine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


TWO BOYHOODS, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Luminous passions reign
Last Line: These two high childhoods in the heart of man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)


WHAT DOES IT MEAN?, by PETER DALE SCOTT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The secret cunning %of this silent earth
Subject(s): Buddhism; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Life; Religion