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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1851: A MESSAGE TO DENMARK HILL, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dearest father, it is the year's first day
Last Line: Gone now as all must go. Your loving son, / john
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Italy; Loss; Italians


A HILL, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In italy, where this sort of thing can occur
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


A LETTER FROM ITALY, by JOSEPH ADDISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While you, my lord, the rural shades admire
Last Line: And lines like virgil's or like yours, should praise
Subject(s): England; Freedom; Italy; Montagu, Charles. 1st Earl Of Halifax; Travel; English; Liberty; Italians; Journeys; Trips


A MASQUE OF VENICE, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not a stain / in the sun-brimmed sapphire
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


A MOOD IN ITALY, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the fluted / velvet datura's
Last Line: This the crown!
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 30, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis time I stepped from horeb to the plain
Last Line: "here wise men long have lived, and live to-day."
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 31, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, italy is wise, a cultured prude
Last Line: Saw henry kneel in tears at peter's foot?
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


A SONG OF ITALY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon a windy night of stars that fell
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Italy; Love; Nations; Dead, The; Liberty; Italians


A STREET MELODY, by BELLE COOPER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A song soars from a sordid city street
Last Line: Assisi lifts her towers to heaven again.
Subject(s): Catholics; Italy; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Italians


AFTER LEAVING ITALY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair land! Thee all men greet with joy; how few
Last Line: Mother of heroes, from thy death-like sleep!
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


AFTER LEAVING ITALY (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As indignation mastered grief, my tongue
Last Line: My heart, and filled that heart with conflict strong.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


AFTER READING 'AN ITALIAN GARDEN', by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To him no more an inward hate
Last Line: Again might blossom to the moon!
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Italy; Italians


AMALFI, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet the memory is to me
Last Line: In the land beyond the sea.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


AN EPISODE, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vasari tells that luca signorelli
Last Line: Firm and dry-ey'd before the lordly canvas.
Subject(s): Italy; Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574); Italians


AN ITALIAN BEGGAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho, little girl, the road beside
Last Line: For this land of lands and this day of days!
Subject(s): Beauty; Begging & Beggars; Flowers; Hearts; Italy; Roses; Italians


AN ITALIAN TO ITALY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the coast of those bright seas
Last Line: "I feel thee, bless thee, mine!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ASCENSION NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I take a bath enveloped
Subject(s): Ascension Day; Italy; Italians


ASSISI, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know a city on a hill, a mountain's castled crown
Last Line: Assisi grew into the light, as flowers and children grow.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


AT ALBANO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Days passed - and monte calvo would not clear
Last Line: For by her son's blest hand the seed was sown.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


AT THE CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grieve for the man who hither came bereft
Last Line: The most profound repose his cell can give.
Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Italians


AT THE CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI (CONTINUED), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world foresaken, all its busy cares
Last Line: Give him a soul that cleaveth unto thee.
Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Italians


AT THE EREMITE OR UPPER CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What aim had they, the pair of monks, in size
Last Line: Meet on the solid ground of waking life.
Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Italians


AT THE TOMBS OF THE HOUSE OF SAVOY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Turin beneath, on the green banks of the po
Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians


CALOGERO, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Buon riposo, signorino
Last Line: Dolce, bel calogero.
Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Italy; Strangers; Italians


CANADA NOT LAST, by WILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo venice, gay with color, lights and song
Last Line: Tive land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schuyler-lighthall, William Douw
Subject(s): Canada; Italy; Patriotism; Canadians; Italians


CANNAE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Save where garganus, with low-ridged bound
Last Line: So sharp a check of greatness so supreme.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Italy; War; Italians


CASTELLO, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The triton in the ilex-wood
Last Line: The gardens of castello!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Italy; Italians


CENCIAJA, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: May I print, shelley, how it came to pass
Last Line: That victor rules, this present year, in rome?
Subject(s): Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Italians


COUNTESS LAURA, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a dreary day in padua
Last Line: In silver whiteness over padua.
Subject(s): Italy; Tragedy; Italians


DAWN IN ITALY AND IN LONDON, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath the sombre cypresses
Last Line: And the slum of grim despair.
Subject(s): Despair; Italy; London; Italians


DAY-DAWN IN ITALY, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Italia! In thy bleeding heart
Last Line: "for god and liberty!"
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


DIANA, by NATHALIA CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Diana, out of italy, my sister's protegee
Last Line: "for the gods possess their copies of 'diana at the bath!' "
Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Guests; Italy; Showers & Showering; Visiting; Italians


DOMESDAY BOOK: THE CONVENT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Elenor murray stole away from nice
Last Line: Out of a curious but hardened heart.
Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Letters; Life; Nuns; Prayer; Italians


DRIFTING, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My soul today / is far away
Last Line: Where tasso's spirit soars and sings.
Subject(s): Italy; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Italians


EN ROUTE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherefore art thou strange
Last Line: Dear land, take my tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Farewell; Italy; Parting; Italians


EPICEDIUM: WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, who shall mourn him first
Last Line: And his first word was noble as his last!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Italy; Kisses; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Italians


EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "while his beard has grown gray, black as ever remain"
Last Line: The brain has had little or nothing to do
Subject(s): Italy;reason;talk; Italians;intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals


FAREWELL TO ITALY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We lingered at domo d'ossola
Last Line: Ah! How can he forget?
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


FAREWELL TO ITALY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I leave thee, beauteous italy! No more
Last Line: And light us to our chamber at the grave.
Subject(s): Farewell; Italy; Parting; Italians


FIESOLE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say not that arno's vale is fair
Last Line: From off thy spirit-haunted hill!
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


FILIPPO BALDINUCCI ON THE PRIVILEGE OF BURIAL, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, boy, we must not'- so began
Last Line: "o lord, how long? How long, o lord?"
Subject(s): Funerals; Italy; Jews; Burials; Italians; Judaism


FIRE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The air is dizzy with swallows
Subject(s): Italy; Sex; Italians


FOR THE ALBUM OF THE DUCHESS DE GUICHE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Children! While childhood lasts, one day
Last Line: Than all her brightest arms have won.
Subject(s): Children; France; Italy; Childhood; Italians


FRA GIACOMO, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas, fra giacamo / too late!
Last Line: And the monks say mass for your mistress' soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas
Subject(s): Italy; Tragedy; Italians


FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 1, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nona domenica garnaro sits in the sun
Last Line: Both of her thumbs, and she look down at it
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


FRANCESCA OF RIMINI (INFERNO -- CANTO 5), by DANTE ALIGHIERI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The land where I was born sits by the seas
Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


FREEDOM FOR ITALY: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He is the freeman whom the truth makes free
Last Line: Perhaps not now, but when and how he will!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Freedom; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy; Patriotism; Popes; Social Protest; Liberty; Italians; Papacy


FROM OVER-SEA, by SOPHIE JEWETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In italy how comes the spring?
Last Line: In italy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Italians; Journeys; Trips


GHAZELES: 3. WRITTEN AT AMALFI, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is the mid-may sun, that, rayless and peacefully gleaming
Last Line: Bound in the world's dead sleep -- dried up by its treacherous seeming.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


GIFT FOR A BELIEVER; FOR FLAVIO CONSTANTINI, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is friday, a usual day / in italy, and you wait
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 1. IN AN ITALIAN HILL TOWN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I missed the uses of my mother tongue
Last Line: The universal language of a smile!
Subject(s): Beauty; Italy; Lips; Smiles; Italians


HOTEL PARADISO E COMMERCIALE, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Another hill town: / another dry cinzano in the sun
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


HOW DUKE VALENTINE CONTRIVED, by BASIL BUNTING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Duke valentine had been in lombardy with the king
Last Line: They were strangled in the same manner
Subject(s): Italy; Murder; Italians


IN ITALY, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear lillian, all I wished is won!
Last Line: Lies in the heart which mine hath won!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Italy; Love; Memory; Nightmares; Italians


IN SAN LORENZO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is thine hour come to wake, o slumbering night?
Last Line: But will not yet thine angel bid thee wake?
Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Italy; Light; Sunrise; Paradise; Italians


IN THE CATACOMBS, by HARLAN HOUSE BALLARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sam brown was a fellow from way down east
Last Line: "united states ahead, by thunder!"
Subject(s): Catacombs; Italy; Italians


IN THE SANCTUARY AT SARONNO, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Has not luini writ in fire
Last Line: Upon the sanctuary wall.
Subject(s): Italy; Sanctuaries; Italians


IN TUSCANY: TUSCAN HILLS, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: My friend and I, we climbed together
Last Line: Yet me she has forgot—her lover.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


INDIANAPOLIS MARKET, by ETHEL ARNOLD TILDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behind heaped fruits in a jumbled row
Last Line: Maria, raphael, angeline --
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ISOLA COMACINA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There sleeps beneath italian skies
Last Line: May all the gods be good to thee!
Subject(s): Future; Islands; Italy; Past; Italians


ITALIA, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Italia! Thou art fallen, though with sheen
Last Line: And smite the spoiler with the sword of pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALIA REDENTA; ON HEARING ITALIAN FLAG FLYING OVER TRENT & TRIESTE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Till yesterday 'twas 'italy unredeemed.'
Last Line: "italia redenta."
Subject(s): Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War


ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To come back from the sweet south, to the north
Last Line: And the sweet name to my mouth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


ITALIAN, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It would be enough
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 1, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the bright road to rome, beyond mantua
Last Line: Because it is truth. Your polars spin in the sun
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 2, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Whir of a pigeon's wings outside a wooden window
Last Line: Of a book and stands at the end of perspective, waiting for me
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this landscape of vines and hills you carried a theme
Last Line: Into a coin that the fog's fingers rub together
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 4, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The foam out on the sparkling strait muttering montale
Last Line: To dissolve in a fiction greater than our lives, the sea, the un
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 5, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My colonnade of cedars between whose arches the ocean
Last Line: That your speck widens with elation, a dot that soars
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 6, by DEREK WALCOTT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now evening after evening after evening
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALIAN PICTURES: COSTA MAGIC, by MINA LOY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her father / indisposed to her marriage
Last Line: Whose hair down covers her thighs
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALIAN PICTURES: JULY IN VALLOMBROSA, by MINA LOY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old lady sitting still
Last Line: Of head-waiters
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALIAN PICTURES: THE COSTA SAN GIORGIO, by MINA LOY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We english make a tepid blot
Last Line: Onto the middle of the street
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALIAN QUATRAIN: HAIRDRESSING, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There on the littered streets she sits, and chats with
Last Line: Plucks vermin from its curls; and sells her oranges to me. Me.
Subject(s): Italy; Retail Trade; Italians; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


ITALIAN QUATRAIN: LEMON TREES, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are ripe with yellow birds, I vow
Last Line: Dripping and warm from out your golden throats!
Subject(s): Italy; Lemons; Italians; Lemon Trees


ITALIAN QUATRAIN: OLIVE TREE, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moonlight is always on its leaves
Last Line: Lovers who chance to wander there.
Subject(s): Italy; Olive Trees And Olives; Italians


ITALIAN QUATRAIN: SABBATH MORNING, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond my room's rose-covered convent wall
Last Line: I'll swear that satyr's stone mouth grinned at me!
Subject(s): Italy; Sabbath; Italians; Sunday


ITALIAN RHAPSODY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear italy! The sound of thy soft name
Last Line: Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALIAN SONG, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear is my little native vale
Last Line: Shall bind me to my native vale!
Variant Title(s): My Native Vale
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Voices from the mountains speak
Last Line: To the gulfs that steep her shore.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALY, by VINCENZO DA FILICAJA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Italia, o italia, upon whom
Last Line: Victress or vanquished, doomed to slavery!
Alternate Author Name(s): Filicaia, Vincenzo Da
Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Liberty; Italians


ITALY, by VINCENZO DA FILICAJA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Italia! Oh italia! Thou who hast
Last Line: Victor or vanquished, thou the slave of friend or foe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filicaia, Vincenzo Da
Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Liberty; Italians


ITALY, by ARTHUR PETERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Enchanted italy! Fair, sunny land!
Last Line: And see thy treasures, glorious italy.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALY, by EDWARD COATE PINKNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Know'st thou the land which lovers ought to choose?
Last Line: To build our happy hearth in blooming italy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pinkney, Edward Coote
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the sea I heard the groans
Last Line: And sow its ghastly fields with flowers!
Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Liberty; Italians


ITALY - 1915, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tear from thy brow the olive wreath!
Last Line: Of england's strumpet, italy!
Subject(s): Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War


ITALY AND THE WORLD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Florence, bologna, parma, modena
Last Line: And to love best shall still be, to reign unsurpassed.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ITALY SWEET TOO!, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy is england! I could be content
Last Line: And float with them about the summer waters.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet
Subject(s): England; Italy; English; Italians


JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a low wall, falling away
Subject(s): Jews; Cemeteries; Italy; Judaism; Graveyards; Italians


JULIAN AND MADDALO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I rode one evening with count maddalo
Last Line: All happened -- but the cold world shall not know.
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


LIBERTY: PART 1. ANCIENT AND MODERN ITALY COMPARED, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O my lamented talbot! While with thee
Last Line: Aspiring, thy commands to britons bear.
Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Roman Empire; Liberty; Italians


LOVE WITHOUT WINGS: SONG 6, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah me, do you remember still
Last Line: Resolved, abandoned by us two!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Italians


MAGGIORE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend, rest awhile upon thy glistening oars
Last Line: And let us drift and dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Italy; Nightmares; Italians


MARENGHI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let those who pine in pride or in revenge
Last Line: The thought of his own country ...
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


MEDITERRANEAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I passed you many times as I went down the cliff walk
Last Line: May be: best thing: endure: face front: get back on the line
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Greece; Islands; Italy; Mediterranean Sea; Greeks; Italians


MEDLEY OF THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS ON THE ITALIAN CRISIS, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Had I a thousand mouths, a thousand tongues
Last Line: For truth and liberty be found in rome.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Courage; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy; Popes; Rome, Italy; Valor; Bravery; Italians; Papacy


MENTANA: FIRST ANNIVERSARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the time when the stars are grey
Last Line: "give all men heart to be free."
Subject(s): Italy; Nations; Night; Stars; Italians; Bedtime


MIDSUMMER NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midsummer night, without a moon, but the stars.
Last Line: I am ashamed, I have betrayed my friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): August; Italy; Moon; Night; Stars; Italians; Bedtime


MOONLIGHT IN ITALY, by ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE DODGE KINNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's not a breath the dewy leaves to stir
Last Line: The sense of worship into uttered praise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stedman, Edmund Burke, Mrs.
Subject(s): Italy; Moon; Italians


MOTHER AND POET; TURIN, AFTER THE NEWS FROM GAETA, 1861, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east
Last Line: Let none look at me!
Subject(s): Death - Children; Italy; Mothers; Savio, Laura; Death - Babies; Italians


NAPOLEON III IN ITALY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Emperor, emperor! / from the centre to the shore
Last Line: Evermore.
Subject(s): Italy; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Regalia; Italians; Royal Perogatives


NATURE'S REMORSES; ROME, 1861, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her soul was bred by a throne, and fed
Last Line: Sunshine from heaven, and the eyes of a child.
Subject(s): Italy; Remorse; Despair; Italians


NINIE, by FRANCIS PICABIA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Perfumes, flowers, love, dancing, music
Last Line: P.S. Don quixote is an example.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Dadaism; Italy; Mythology - Classical; Italians


NON DOLET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It does not hurt. She looked along the knife
Last Line: And thou not die, how should it hurt indeed?
Subject(s): Italy; Love; Murder; Italians


NOON: ROMAGNA, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You would never believe to watch this man
Last Line: The kingdoms and their kings are told about
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He throws a fifty-lire piece in the fountain
Last Line: Rain through the roof of a pagan temple on this gentle soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The boy stood in the burning house. Set it up
Last Line: Never allow words to occur.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The green green grass of home is owned by another now
Last Line: And I'm not allowed on the property for my ounce of sentiment.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Second sighting: / she was up on the roof when I went up to check
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Awake. A dab of numero uno in the smoking
Last Line: And their eyes are pink with hopeless energy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the montana whorehouse the madam yells 'burma'
Last Line: He thinks. I'll miss supper and fishing the evening hatch.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Start with seven for luck
Last Line: Feet deep. Nothing need be forgiven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The announcement said get to the high ground
Last Line: Their teethhold on the stomach.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For five days the moon was red from the dust storm
Last Line: Established a white bladder-shaped object in the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grease density
Last Line: The midwest barren without good shellfish
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Third sighting: / is she the black-crowned night heron
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He became humbler with his journalism, bought a porkpie hat
Last Line: His left ear as his only visible rebellion.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Crudities: / implausible as this brilliantly cold
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And the great shattering cold waves
Last Line: It and would not trade it for all your princely heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The snail is beautiful, nearly persian. Do we dwell in
Last Line: But delicately with her lips.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Phenomenon. Agonies. Mostly unshared. Dear friends
Last Line: Place a kitten near a candle when bored.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a dream I saw spicer's body hanging from a hundred feet
Last Line: Spread and are they peaceful on the bottom?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are these horses less wonderful for my daughter having to shovel
Last Line: Horse eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oooooooo, he said to himself. That night of wonderment
Last Line: Afterward didn't seem to care.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: More mad dogs and fewer streetlights, mr. Nixon. That advice
Last Line: To throw stones at streetlights.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And my puppy is over her kidney infection, diagnosed
Last Line: Let her wounds become my own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: First sighting: she was up in the apple tree with one leg hanging
Last Line: I thought her bare feet were cloven a bit too obviously.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At four in the morning my body bumped against the ceiling
Last Line: Rather, earth lost to me as she doesn't know me well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember her cheers? How you loved the cheerleader far beyond
Last Line: No longer love the cheerleader.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He sang I'm talking through a hat that isn't mine. It's
Last Line: Small, treated themselves like garbage. Sanctus detrius redivivus
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I felt myself floating toward the shadow of the dreamer I once
Last Line: In our dreams. There were poems before books on earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stewardess said you're a poet?
Last Line: Around all day humming got a date with a daydream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This fat & sexless life
Last Line: This fat & sexless life.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I mourned portia's unfair operation. Then the horse
Last Line: Happened to be rex.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We must not think of our country as a ten-trillion-dolllar
Last Line: Blowjob no matter how the idea tempts us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overheard story in montana bar: she thought when she lost
Last Line: With ambivalent affection for guns & ewes, mares & drudgery.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians


OAK LEAVES COME QUITE CHEAP, by A. A. IMBERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies giovanni
Last Line: Sic transit gloria mundi.
Subject(s): Death; Italy; Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dead, The; Italians; Dictators


ON A TORSO OF CUPID, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peach trees and judas trees
Last Line: Thou has a heart to feel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Cupid; Italy; Statues; Eros; Italians


ON CROSSING THE SIMPLON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the bleak pass huge alps their shadows throw
Last Line: Pure as yon snow that cleaves the vault of heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Alps; Italy; Mountains; Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


ON LEAVING ITALY, FOR THE SUMMER, ON ACCOUNT OF HEALTH, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou summer-land! That dost put on the sun
Last Line: Or make him one!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


ON PROPOSED PRESENTATION OF GUNS TO KING OF SARDINIA, ITALIAN LIBERTY, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No gold - no jewels bright
Last Line: Be god to aid thee nigh!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): England; Europe; Freedom; Italy; Nations; English; Liberty; Italians


ON THE PIAVE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: We called 'em wop and dago, and often
Last Line: And we'll know italians better in the long years yet to come!
Subject(s): Immigrants; Italy; World War I; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Italians; First World War


ON THE PICTURE OF AN ANGEL BY FRA ANGELICO, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Press each on each, sweet wings, and roof me in
Last Line: To rest me in a fairer italy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth
Subject(s): Angelico, Fra (1400-1455); Angels; Italy; Paintings & Painters; Guido Di Pietro; Italians


OUR ITALIAN JOURNEY, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of our first stay in italy
Last Line: Of which, though past, our speech is ever rife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


PAMPINEA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lying by the summer sea
Last Line: I slept and dreamed of italy!
Subject(s): Italy; Beauty; Italians


PANDORA, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Italy, loved of the sun
Last Line: And girt with the gold of lost lordship thy brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Italy; Pandora (mythology); Italians


PARTING LOVERS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love thee, love thee, giulio!
Last Line: Nor this... This heart-break. Go!
Subject(s): Italy; Patriotism; Italians


PAUSILIPPO (IN THE TIME OF BOMBA), by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A hill there is that laves its feet
Last Line: In pity -- futile as the ore!
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


PESCHIERA, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What voice did on my spirit fall
Last Line: Than never to have fought at all.'
Subject(s): Croatia; Italy; War; Italians


PICTURES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A pallid nun by serge made doubly pale
Last Line: Touches the cheek, and fairer skies float down.
Subject(s): Italy; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Italians; Songs


PISA: THE DUOMO, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lo, this is like a song writ long ago
Last Line: Won from the boundaries of day and night.
Subject(s): Italy; Life; Pisa, Italy; Time; Italians


QUIA NOMINOR LEO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What part is left thee, lion? Ravenous beast
Last Line: Thy god shall give thee back for birthright rome?
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


RED POPPIES (IN THE SABINE VALLEYS NEAR ROME), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the seeding grass
Last Line: And the tall corn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Variant Title(s): Red Poppies In The Sabine Valleys Near Rome
Subject(s): Italy; Poppies; Rome, Italy; Wind; Italians


RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE?, by RICHARD HOWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No daydream: my invitation to the voyage
Last Line: Grudge the midnight's easy gift
Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph
Subject(s): Travel; Italy; Journeys; Trips; Italians


ROGATION DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the orchards, under
Subject(s): Farm Life; Italy; Agriculture; Farmers; Italians


ROMA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ripe hours there be that do anticipate
Last Line: To see as man may see when time is not.
Subject(s): Italy; Roman Empire; Italians


SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your nurse could only speak italian,
Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Sailing Home From Rapallo
Subject(s): Italy; Mothers; Death; Sea Voyages; Cemeteries; Fathers; Italians; Dead, The; Graveyards


SAN MINIATO, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See, I have climbed the mountainside
Last Line: Show to the world my sin and shame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


SAN TERENZO, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid-april seemed like some november day
Last Line: Flew forth, like shelley's spirit, to the sea!
Subject(s): Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Italians


SCULPTURES BY DIMITRI HADZI, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This metal blooms in the dark of rome's / day light. Of how many deaths
Last Line: Their brightness is dark with it
Subject(s): Italy; Massacres; World War Ii - Atrocities; Italians


SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter / swallow / each calling
Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing & Writers; Italians; Motion Pictures - Play Writing; Journeys; Trips


SHELLEY'S SKYLARK, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere afield here something lies
Last Line: Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme.
Subject(s): Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Italians


SIENA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Inside this northern summer's fold
Last Line: Up to god's side.
Subject(s): Heaven; Italy; Jesus Christ; Summer; Paradise; Italians


SIGNS OF THE TIMES, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When mighty passions, surging, heave the depth of life's great ocean
Last Line: Advance! And be your watchword ever -- god for ireland!
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): France; Italy; Nationalism - Ireland; Russia; Italians; Soviet Union; Russians


SONG TO THE ITALIAN PATRIOTS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sons of those whose glorious name
Last Line: Then on to victory!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur
Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Patriotism; Victory; Liberty; Italians


SONNET ON APPROACHING ITALY, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I reached the alps, the soul within me burned
Last Line: I wept to see the land so very fair.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


SONNET TO ITALY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For thee, ausonia! Nature's bounteous hand
Last Line: To albion's coast and ever-varying skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


SONNET: 18. ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Avenge, o lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones
Last Line: Early may fly the babylonian woe.
Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 15
Subject(s): Heroism; Italy; Martyrs; War; Heroes; Heroines; Italians


SONNET: TO ITALY, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When on bleak jura's hills I stood, and saw
Last Line: And stand in majesty and freedom forth!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


SORDELLO: BOOK 1, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who will, may hear sordello's story told
Last Line: The veritable business of mankind.
Subject(s): Italy; Troubadours; Italians; Minnesingers


SOUL-DRIFT, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I let my soul drift with the thistledown
Last Line: But as the heir of all the universe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


SPRING AT THE VILLA CONTI, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of time and nature still the fairest daughter
Last Line: "this is not heaven, but italy."
Subject(s): Fountains; Italy; Italians


SPRING ON THE ALBAN HILLS, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er the campagna it is dim warm weather
Last Line: That in the silence makes thy sweet eyes wild.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


SPRING UNDER THE CYPRESSES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the cypresses, here in the stony
Last Line: Sings here alone, and is lost to the bushes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Italy; Spring; Italians


SPUMA DAL MARE (ON THE LATIN COAST), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flower o' the wave
Last Line: The many-coloured.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Italy; Peacocks; Sea; Italians; Ocean


SUMMING UP ITALY; INSCRIBED TO INTELLIGENT PUBLICS OUT OF IT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Observe how well it will be at last
Last Line: The virtue of slandering the doers.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Watch any cool northern girl
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Women; Italy; Sex; Italians


SUPER FLUMINA BABYLONIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the waters of babylon we sat down and wept
Last Line: And men see light.
Subject(s): Babylon; Freedom; Italy; Rivers; Liberty; Italians


SURFACES AND MASKS; 3, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She takes him into “the rape of europa”
Last Line: The only play picasso ever wrote
Subject(s): Venice, Italy; Music & Musicians; Writing & Writers; Togetherness; Italians


SURFACES AND MASKS; 4, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He gave the fascisti salute
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Fascism & Fascists; Italy; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Italians


SWITZERLAND AND ITALY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the switzer's varied land
Last Line: Unscathed, for art is not of time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Alps; Italy; Mountains; Switzerland; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss


TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE THIRD DAY: CHARLEMAGNE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Olger the dane and desiderio, / king of the lombards
Last Line: Fell as one dead at desiderio's feet.
Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Italy; Italians


THE CENCI; A TRAGEDY: ACTS 1-3, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That matter of the murder is hushed up
Last Line: [exeunt.
Subject(s): Despair; Gothic Drama; Hate; Italy; Italians


THE CENCI; A TRAGEDY: ACTS 4-5, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She comes not, yet I left her even now
Last Line: We are quite ready. Well -- 't is very well.
Subject(s): Despair; Hate; Italy; Italians


THE CORNUCOPIA, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Grapes grow up a difficult and
Last Line: Drifting at night in the sea.
Subject(s): Italy; Nature; Italians


THE CROWNED REPUBLIC, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Forgive us, italy, who have loved thee long
Last Line: Without, within -- that dare the gates of freedom close.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


THE CUCKOO AT LAVERNA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: List - 'twas the cuckoo. - o with what delight
Last Line: And folds thy pinions up in blest repose.
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Italy; Italians


THE DAISY; WRITTEN AT EDINBURGH, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O love, what hours were thine and mine
Last Line: My fancy fled to the south again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Italy; Love; Monaco; Italians


THE DECAY OF VENICE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The glowing pageant of my story lies
Last Line: When died for many a year man's noblest hopes.
Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Venice, Italy; Liberty; Italians


THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 3, SELECTION, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Zoroaster long ago / said poetry presents us
Subject(s): Dragons; Italy; Unicorns; Italians


THE DYING IMPROVISATORE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirit of my land
Last Line: Sweet friends! Bright land! Farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Italy; Dead, The; Parting; Italians


THE DYING OLD YEAR: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Avaunt, away! Dread shapes of hate and fear
Last Line: Then passed away, with one low, moaning sigh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Holidays; Italy; Law & Lawyers; New Year; Social Protest; Treason & Traitors; Dead, The; Italians; Attorneys


THE ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fortu, fortu, my beloved one
Last Line: In black from the skies!
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE EVIL EYE, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nona poured oil on the water and saw the eye
Last Line: Though I had one already and the other came
Subject(s): Italy; Superstition; Italians


THE FIREWORKS; FROM THE CASTLE OF ST. ANGELO, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Play on, play on, I share your gorgeous glee
Last Line: He waits his end in still and slow decay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Fireworks; Italy; Italians


THE FORCED RECRUIT AT SOLFERINO, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the ranks of the austrian you found
Last Line: Have glory, -- let him have a tear.
Subject(s): Army - Austria; Italy; Italians


THE GRAVE OF KEATS, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rid of the world's injustice, and his pain
Last Line: As isabella did her basil-tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians


THE GRAVE OF KEATS; THE PROTESTANT CEMETERY AT ROME, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair little city
Last Line: Strong wine of fruit mature, whose flowers alone we know.
Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians


THE GRAVE OF SHELLEY, by OSCAR WILDE    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed
Last Line: Against the rocks of some wave-shattered steep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE HOUR OF AWE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in the five-domed wonder
Last Line: For you and the waiting wind.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


THE ITALIAN IN ENGLAND, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That second time they hunted me
Last Line: It steals the time! To business now.
Subject(s): Refugees; Italians In England


THE MAREMMA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are bright scenes beneath italian skies
Last Line: For thee, who thus didst pass in brightness to the tomb!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Death; Italy; Jealousy; Dead, The; Italians


THE MIRROR OF DIANA, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She floats into the quiet skies
Last Line: Elusive in the flux of things.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Italy; Lakes; Italians; Pools; Ponds


THE MODERN ROMANS, by CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Under the slanting light of the yellow sun of october
Last Line: "turning the fenian down once more to be 'bossed by a dago.'"
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


THE NEW PROSERPINE, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, countless as the stars of night
Last Line: There lay the memory of hell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


THE NOVEL, by RICHARD JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For two days I've been crying
Last Line: So astonished was he by her beauty.
Subject(s): Beauty; Books; Grief; Italy; Novels & Novelists; Story-telling; Travel; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE ONLY DOLL IN THE VALLEY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up near the sources of po
Last Line: For the girls in every valley.
Subject(s): Girls; Italy; Italians


THE PILLAR OF TRAJAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where towers are crushed, and unforbidden weeds
Last Line: Becomes with all her years a vision of the mind.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


THE POET IN ITALY; IMITATED AFTER RENATO RINALDI'S 'IL GIROVAGO', by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A ragged sweet little fellow
Last Line: "death comes, with a grin, to see."
Subject(s): Country Life; Italy; Poetry & Poets; Italians


THE PRAYER OF THE ROMANS, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not done, but near its ending
Last Line: One republic in italy free!
Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Liberty; Italians


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


THE RESTORATION OF THE WORKS OF ART TO ITALY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Land of departed fame! Whose classic plains
Last Line: "faint effluence of ""the day-spring from on high!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Italy; Italians


THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How gentle here is nature's mood
Last Line: Pledging the land to sorrowing loveliness.
Subject(s): Italy; Rome, Italy; Italians


THE SONG OF THE STANDARD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands
Last Line: Take to thy bosom the nations, and there shall the world come to rest.
Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Italy; Women; Italians


THE SPRINGS OF FONTANA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The springs of fontana well high on the mountain
Last Line: Springs of fontana!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Italy; Springs (water); Italians


THE STATUE OF LORENZO DE MEDICI, by JAMES ERNEST NESMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mark me how still I am! The sound of feet
Last Line: And he, not I, is here immortalized.
Subject(s): Italy; Medici, Lorenzo De (1449-1492); Italians


THE STORM, by DANIEL HALPERN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The italian police stopped us today
Subject(s): Italy; Storms; Automobiles; Italians; Cars


THE SWORD OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When victor emanuel the king / went down to his lucca that day
Last Line: With a hero to head us, -- our king!
Subject(s): Castruccio Castracani, Antelmineli; Italy; Victor Emmanuel Ii, King Of Italy; Italians


THE TRAITORS OF CAPORETTO; A LEGEND OF TODAY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whose feet are these that plod all day
Last Line: Shall perish as they fall.
Subject(s): Army - Italy; Caporetto, Battle Of (1917); Italy; Treason & Traitors; World War I; Italians; First World War


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A CHAIN TO WEAR, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Away! Away! The dream was vain
Last Line: Hush! ...Do not speak.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A FANCY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How sweet were life, - this life, if we
Last Line: O'er the happy grass to find me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A LOVE LETTER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My love, - my chosen, - but not mine!
Last Line: Thine own, and only thine, my love, forever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A VISION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hour of hesperus! The hour when feeling
Last Line: And to the distance sighingly entreat her?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: CHANGE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She is unkind, unkind!
Last Line: "I shall not see her to-night."
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: CONDEMNED ONES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Above thy child I saw thee bend
Last Line: That hope to help us was not given!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: COUNT RINALDO RINALDI, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a dark-purple, moonlighted midnight
Last Line: The eyes of mnemosyne there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: DESIRE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The golden planet of the occident
Last Line: Go forth, across the world, and find my love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: EROS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What wonder that I loved her thus, that night?
Last Line: Her mystic name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: FATALITY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen her, with her golden hair
Last Line: And its wild white stars that love us.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: INDIAN LOVE SONG, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My body sleeps: my heart awakes
Last Line: Through mist and darkness moves toward thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: MORNING AND MEETING, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One yellow star, the largest and the last
Last Line: That, through a rapture, I had toucht her hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: NEWS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: News, news, news, my gossiping friends!
Last Line: T is a woman that reigns in hell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Gossip; Italy; Travel; Women; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ON THE SEA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come! Breathe thou soft, or blow thou bold
Last Line: Of elephanta, the red.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Sea; Travel; Italians; Ocean; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ONCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A falling star that shot across
Last Line: "but ever love is love forever!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Love - Nature Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ROOT AND LEAF, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The love that deep within me lies
Last Line: Its rooted growth beneath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: SILENCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Words of fire, and words of scorn
Last Line: Guard empty chamber, moveless door.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Silence; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: SINCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Words like to these were said, or dreamed
Last Line: Must beat or break for. That is all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE CLOUD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With shape to shape, all day
Last Line: Of still desire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Clouds; Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE LAST MESSAGE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fling the lattice open
Last Line: Before the night is done.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE MAGIC LAND, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By woodland belt, by ocean bar
Last Line: "to one sweet note, sighed ""italy!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE STORM, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Both hollow and hill were as dumb as death
Last Line: With the dew on its delicate sheath!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Storms; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE VAMPYRE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found a corpse, with golden hair
Last Line: From perdition made so fair?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Corpses; Italy; Travel; Cadavers; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: VENICE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sylphs and ondines
Last Line: To bury my heart -- one grave more to the many!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Venice, Italy; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: WARNINGS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beware, beware of witchery!
Last Line: Cordelia!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: PROLOGUE. PART 1, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet are the rosy memories of the lips
Last Line: And white death watching over red-lipped love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WATERSHED; LINES WRITTEN BETWEEN MUNICH AND VERONA, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black mountains pricked with pointed pine
Last Line: I flowed to italy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


THE WOLF OF GUBBIO, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The world is cold
Last Line: Out of the cold!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs.
Subject(s): Italy; Legends; Wolves; Italians


THEREFORE, PROUD ITALY, I, BY GOD'S GRACE, by LUIGI ALAMANNI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Italy; Homecoming; Italians


THISTLEDOWN (SPRING ON THE CAMPAGNE), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bloweth like snow / from the grey thistles
Last Line: The thistledown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Flowers; Italy; Spring; Italians


TIRESIAS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is an hour before the hour of dawn
Last Line: Are these dead or art thou dead, italy?
Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Grief; Italy; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians


TO CHARLES DICKENS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Go then to italy; but mind
Last Line: With little nelly nestling there.
Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips


TO FLOWERS FROM ITALY IN WINTER, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunned in the south, and here today
Last Line: To tell man whence you came.
Subject(s): Flowers; Italy; Italians


TO ITALY, by VINCENZO DA FILICAJA    Poem Text                    
First Line: Italy! Italy! Thou who 'rt doomed to wear / the fatal gift of beauty
Last Line: Victor or vanquished, slave forever more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filicaia, Vincenzo Da
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


TO ITALY, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair land of dear desire
Last Line: What all our souls would dream!
Subject(s): Italy; Patriotism; Perugino [pietro Vannucci] (1450-1523); Italians


TO ITALY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As the sunrise to the night
Last Line: Be those hopes and fears on thee.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


TO JOSEPH MAZZINI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take, since you bade it should bear
Last Line: First name of the world's names, rome
Subject(s): Italy; Love; Politics & Government; Italians


TO THE APENNINES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your peaks are beautiful, ye apennines!
Last Line: Pine silently for the redeeming hour.
Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Italy; Mountains; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


TONIGHT THE HEART-SHAPED LEAVES, by JAN HELLER LEVI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've smoked thirteen cigarettes today: I'm breathless
Subject(s): Italy; Family Life; Italians; Relatives


UN BEL DI VEDREMO, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hello nbc, this is london speaking'
Subject(s): Italy; War; World War I; World War Ii; Italians; First World War; Second World War


VENICE TO ITALY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O italy, my fateful mistress-land
Last Line: All other love the love that holds god's light.
Subject(s): Italy; Venice, Italy; Italians


VIEW FROM THE EUGANEAN HILLS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a green isle needs must be
Last Line: And the earth grow young again.
Variant Title(s): Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills;written In The Euganean Hills, North Italy
Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death; Italy; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sin; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Dead, The; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 9. VILLA SEBELLONI, BELLAGGIO, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fountain shivers lightly in the rain
Last Line: Change to a laurel in the glancing shower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


VIRGIL'S TOMB, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On an olive crested steep
Last Line: The tinkling of the bells.
Subject(s): Italy; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Italians; Vergil


VISIONS OF ITALY (AFTER CAPORETTO), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a black and baneful day
Last Line: As lover to his bride.
Subject(s): Caporetto, Battle Of (1917); Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War


VITTORIA'S LAST SONG IN THE OPERA OF CAMILLA, MILAN, 1847, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot count the years
Last Line: Italia, italia shall be free!
Subject(s): Faith; Freedom; Italy; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Italians