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Subject: LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CONVERSATION WITH LEONARDO, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a stew of a night. The power failed
Last Line: You make me grateful I died in in god's formed day
Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters


A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 32, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To-day I was at milan, in such thought
Last Line: "all shall abandon me to-night."" so I."
Subject(s): Last Supper, The; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Milan, Italy; Paintings & Painters


BALLAD OF THE GOLDEN BOY, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Da vinci's brow in curious lines
Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings And Painters


CONVERSATION WITH LEONARDO, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a stew of a night. The power failed
Last Line: I went down and opened a bottle and sat to the dark
Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings And Painters


FOR 'OUR LADY OF THE ROCKS' (BY LEONARDO DA VINCI), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mother, is this the darkness of the end
Last Line: Amid the bitterness of things occult.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings & Painters; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


LEONARDO DA VINCI'S, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint jerome and his lion
Subject(s): Animals; Jerome, Saint (347-419); Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Lions; Paintings & Painters


LEONARDO DA VINCI'S, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saint jerome and his lion
Last Line: Lions as symbols of sovereignty
Subject(s): Animals; Jerome, Saint (347-419); Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Lions; Paintings And Painters


LEONARDO'S 'MONNA LISA', by EDWARD DOWDEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Make thyself known, sibyl, or let despair
Last Line: Allure us and reject us at thy will!
Variant Title(s): Mona Lisa
Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Mona Lisa; Paintings & Painters


MILAN; DA VINCI'S CHRIST, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day long, year after year
Last Line: Their loving benedicite.
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Milan, Italy; Paintings And Painters


ON A REMEMBERED PICTURE OF CHRIST; AN ECCE HOMO, BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met that image on a mirthful day
Last Line: Sounded all depths of love, grief, death, humanity!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters


ON AGAIN SEEING THE MONA LISA, by GEORGE ST. CLAIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Strange that some beauty we have seen before
Last Line: Tears in my eyes, and sweet pain in my heart.
Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings And Painters


ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky
Last Line: Gazing in death on heaven from those wet rocks.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Florence, Italy; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters


PROBLEM SOLVING, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From a knoll above the arno he watches its muscular washes work
Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Arno River, Italy; Brothers & Sisters


THE LAST SUPPER, BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Though searching damps and many an envious flaw
Last Line: A labour worthy of eternal youth!
Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings And Painters


THE LAST SUPPER; A PICTURE BY LEONARDO DA VINCI, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold that countenance, where grief and love
Last Line: Where there is no betrayer.
Subject(s): Last Supper, The; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings And Painters


THE MASTER, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For leonardo, sound, my sonnet string!
Last Line: But first he stayed the tremble of his hand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters


VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS, by CHARLES LAMB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While young john runs to greet
Last Line: And had read all the sovran schemes and divine riddles there
Alternate Author Name(s): Elia
Variant Title(s): Lines On A [celebrated] Picture By Leonard
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Paintings And Painters; Women - Bible