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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ITALIANS Matches Found: 265 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 forgother 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 |
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