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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) Matches Found: 75 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 |
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