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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RUINS Matches Found: 99 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DECSRIPTIVE ODE, ... UNDER THE RUINS OF RUFUS'S CASTLE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chaotic pile of barren stone Last Line: With legal toils to drag me to my fate! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Castles; Portland (penisula), England; Ruins AMONG THE RUINS OF A CONVENT IN THE APENNINES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye trees! Whose slender roots entwine Last Line: Appear to sight still more forlorn. Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Convents; Mountains; Ruins; Hills; Downs (great Britain) AN OLD DESIRE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I searched thro' memory's lumber-room Last Line: And there are ruins in my fire. Subject(s): Desire; Earth; Memory; Ruins; World AT A RUINED ABBEY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gray day's ending followed the gray day Last Line: Will priest and sinner vanish on the night? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys BLACKBERRY LIGHT: (THE TIE), by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Note old chestnut tie in foreground' Last Line: But we do, even as we remember nothing, %as we stare, as we may or may not want to Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Railroads; Ruins CAPRICCIO OF ROMAN RUINS AND SCULPTURE WITH FIGURES, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The light starts in a promising street Last Line: The line between seems almost natural Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D. Subject(s): Art And Artists; Forum (rome); Ruins; Sculpture And Sculptors CARNAGE: 4. RHEIMS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo mourns another parthenon Last Line: More bitter than to battle — is to feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pain; Rheims, France; Ruins; World War I; Suffering; Misery; First World War CATASTROPHE (CHIMBOTE), by JULIO ORTEGA Poem Source First Line: Devastated land, and I searched Last Line: Time erases me at the whim of fate Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Peru; Ruins CHARTREUSE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Far away in the french alps near grenoble the carthusian monks Last Line: The airport falls, if it isn't the life we expected, something close Subject(s): Arabs; Herbs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins CHEMIN DE FER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A chapel has fallen into ruins Last Line: Its severed goose-wing of snow. Subject(s): Churches; Dreams; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Ruins; Saints; Cathedrals; Nightmares DECLINE AND FALL, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We had a city also. Hand in hand Subject(s): City & Town Life; Ruins; Defeat DEFEAT, by JOAN BROSSA Poem Source First Line: The rudder Last Line: Asking, always %asking Subject(s): Death; Ruins DESERTED DERRICK, by MARY ELIZABETH BRANTLEY Poem Text First Line: Towering high above oil-stained lands Last Line: That cast its rays upon the derrick in an early year. Subject(s): Petroleum; Ruins; Wells; Oil EPILOGUE TO CASUALTIES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the east central state of nigeria, four years Last Line: For eastern pastures, as they were before the war Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Airships; Aviation And Aviators; Nigeria; Ruins; War FIELD; REMAINS OF VIKING SETTLEMENT, NORTH JUTLAND, by ASHLEY MACE HAVIRD Poem Source First Line: Washboard furrows life-masked by sand Last Line: When we leave, it's as if the wind %is taking us Subject(s): Jutland; Ruins; Vikings FOR THE NEW YEAR 1761, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still must the muse, indignant, hear Last Line: And albion's dreaded strength secure the world's repose. Subject(s): Blood; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mourning; Navy - Great Britain; Ruins; British Empire; England - Empire; Bereavement; English Navy FOUNTAIN'S ABBEY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never more, when the day is o'er Last Line: With its beauty to cheer decay. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 7. NAPLES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw at a table of the bombed cafe Last Line: Changed into flies and drew a cloud about him Subject(s): Flies; Naples, Italy; Ruins FRIGHTENING A CHILD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not wise to go walking in the ruin Last Line: Or weaving violets in an endless chain Subject(s): Auden, Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Children; Poetry And Poets; Ruins GIGGLE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: If this coastal erosion continues Last Line: Used to be Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Erosion; Ruins; Tourists HOME MAINTENANCE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruin, she says, is the natural order Last Line: As she raises a glove full of roses. Subject(s): Marriage; Ruins; Women - Abused; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Wife Beating HORSE WITH TWO WHEELS, by ECE AYHAN Poem Source First Line: My son and his friend benjamin. Couldn't fly for years Last Line: You roar in winters, oh, women who shed their leaves Subject(s): Animals; Horses; Ruins HOUSE I LOVED, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I go walking along the old street Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Ruins HYMN AMONG THE RUINS, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Self crowned the day displays its plumage Subject(s): Ruins HYMN AMONG THE RUINS, by OCTAVIO PAZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Self crowned the day displays its plumage Last Line: Words which are flowers become fruits which are deeds Subject(s): Ruins IN A RUIN, AFTER A THUNDER-STORM, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Keep of the norman, old to flood and cloud Last Line: See downfall of the stronghold that he made. Subject(s): Ruins IN THE ROUND RUINS, by GEORGE B. MOORE Poem Source First Line: In the round ruins voices have attached themselves to the wind Last Line: When no one is here for the telling, for its way back into this world Subject(s): Ruins IVY SONG; ON RECEIVING IVY LEAVES .. CASTLE OF RHEINFELS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! How could fancy crown with thee Last Line: And all is thine at length! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Castles; Germany; Ivy; Ruins; Time; Germans LEISTON ABBEY, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful fabric! Even in decay Last Line: Shall recompense me well, and for the task atone. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Leiston Abbey, England; Ruins LOST ILIADS, by ESTHER FRIEDLANDER Poem Text First Line: A pile of ruins on a wind swept plain Last Line: Will perish for the singing youth lie slain. Subject(s): Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry & Poets; Ruins; Iliad; Odyssey LOVE AMONG THE RUINS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the quiet-colored end of evening smiles Last Line: Love is best. Subject(s): Love; Ruins; Past MORAL RUINS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Asia's rock-hollowed fanes, first-born of time Last Line: One father -- worshipped with one voice -- above! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Ruins; Soul; Time; Dead, The NETLEY ABBEY; A LEGEND OF HAMPSHIRE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee, netley, as the sun Last Line: "but -- I can't say much for his taste.""'" Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Hampshire, England; Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys ODE TO LUDLOW CASTLE, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Proud pile! That rearest thy hoary head Last Line: The remnant of the storm. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Castles; Ludlow, England; Ruins OF BEING NUMEROUS, 1, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There are things Subject(s): Reality; Self; Ruins OLD CATHEDRAL HALL, by LEITH SCHACKEL Poem Text First Line: Close to the tracks in the smoke and the grime it is standing deserted Last Line: Then, in the arms of the earth it will rest in a blanket of ashes. Subject(s): Ruins ON A PHOTO OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE, by J. T. BARBARESE Poem Source First Line: The new self, in the half-world Last Line: In a marriage of smoke Subject(s): Photography And Photographers; Ruins ON RUINS, by CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN Poem Source First Line: The difference between outrage and empathy Last Line: Things break, refuse to stand, leave us empty Subject(s): Ruins ON THE RUINS OF ROME, by BALDASSARRE CASTIGLIONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sovereign hills, and hallowed disarray Last Line: Can bring as well the ending of my pain. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Ruins OUR LADY'S WELL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fount of the woods! Thou art hid no more Last Line: Who hath made thee nature's own again! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Ruins; Springs (water); Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away. Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence OZYMANDIAS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In egypt's sandy silence, all alone Last Line: Once dwelt in that annihilated place. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Variant Title(s): On A Stupendous Leg Of Granite Subject(s): Egypt; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Transience; Vanity; Impermanence PICTURES OF THE SOUTHWEST: DESERTED, by ELIZABETH KING COWGILL Poem Text First Line: Nothing so forlorn Last Line: Sockets of a bleaching skull. Subject(s): Houses; Ruins; West (u.s.); Southwest; Pacific States POSTCARD FROM A TOURIST WHO HAS SEEN TOO MANY RUINS BETWEEN STONEHENGE, by DESSA CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: The history of architecture marches Last Line: Along on fallen arches Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Ruins PUZZLEMENT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crescent brow - aquiver thrown Last Line: Such impudence of sweet persiflage! Subject(s): Artemis; Mythology - Classical; Ruins; Statues ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How profitless the relics that we cull Last Line: Urns without ashes, tearless lacrymals! Subject(s): Ruins ROMAN ANTIQUITIES DISCOVERED AT BISHOPSTONE, HEREFORDSHIRE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While poring antiquarians search the ground Last Line: The casual treasure from the furrowed soil. Subject(s): Antiquities; Ruins ROMAN RUINS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How could rome live so long, and now be dead? Last Line: Little to please, and nought to bless mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Ruins ROME, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You, who behold in wonder rome and all Last Line: To raise the city from this ruined dust Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Ruins ROME IN HER RUINS, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst these scenes, o pilgrim Last Line: Nought but the wave, a fugitive-remains Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Ruins RUIN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the lonely tower I gaze for thee Last Line: Of knife-like shapes, that only famine find. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Ruins RUIN, by DAFYDD AP GWILYM Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Punctured, broken hut, laid low ...' Alternate Author Name(s): Dafydd Ab Gwilym; Dafyod Ap Gwilym; David Ap Gwilim Subject(s): Ruins RUIN, by RICHARD HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Gone are the coloured princes, gone echo, gone laughter Subject(s): Ruins RUIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Wondrous this masonry wasted by fate Subject(s): Ruins; Transience RUIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: These grey stones have rung with mirth and lordly carousel Subject(s): Ruins; Transience RUIN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Well-wrought this wall-stone which fate has broken Last Line: Hot in the midst. It was a haven Subject(s): Ruins RUIN (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It stands like night Last Line: Appalled the sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Ruins RUINED CHURCH, by F. W. BATESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No stirring: bristly thistles guard Last Line: Where parson sermoned long ago. Subject(s): Churches; Ruins; Cathedrals RUINED CITY, by PAO CHAO Poem Source First Line: The immense plain Last Line: I shall watch you to the end in silence Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao Subject(s): Ruins RUINS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth is a waste of ruins; so I deemed Last Line: And imaging the pomp of gods below. Subject(s): Ruins RUINS, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall we tread the dust of ages Last Line: Who will raise them up again? Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Ruins RUINS OF ANCIENT ROME, by TARQUINIO GALLUZZI Poem Source First Line: We have seen triumphas arches of the wine country overthrown in Subject(s): Roman Empire; Rome, Italy; Ruins RUINS OF BABYLON, by FREDERICK C. HUSENBETH Poem Source First Line: The desert was my dwelling - and I stood Subject(s): Babylon; Ruins RUINS OF CORINTH, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are thy splendors, dorian corinth? Where Last Line: Alone are spared to chant the halcyon's dirge. Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Ruins RUINS OF CORINTH, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where, corinth, are thy glories now Last Line: The nereids of thy double sea %alone remain to wail for thee Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Ruins RUINS OF ITALICA, by RODRIGO CARO Poem Source First Line: Fabius, this region desolate and drear Last Line: Italica' from ruined tower and wall Subject(s): Italica, Spain; Memory; Ruins; War RUINS OF THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER AEGINA, GREECE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many the feet that filled Last Line: And you have perished! Subject(s): Abandonment; Greece; Mountains; Ruins SANCTUM, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On top of a hill near the lebanese border Last Line: And trust it to bear our weight %a little longer Subject(s): Arabs; Cemeteries; Cities; Death; Graves; Jerusalem; Jews; Memory; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Sculpture And Sculptors SIGN ON THE NEW BRIDGE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: (one place at least) %to heal Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Ruins; Storms; Wind SONG OF THE PALACE OF CH'EN, by KUAN HSIU Poem Source First Line: Think sad thoughts of other days Last Line: And the peasant's plow turns up the shards %of a courtier's mirror Subject(s): Ruins SONNET WRITTEN IN A RUINOUS ABBEY, by SUSAN EVANCE Poem Text First Line: As 'mid these moldering walls I pensive stray Last Line: In spells of rapture all my soul is bound! Alternate Author Name(s): Hooper, Susan Evance Subject(s): Monasteries; Ruins; Abbeys SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid the shade of a deserted hall Last Line: And here her bridal garlands were unbound. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Ruin Subject(s): Home; Past; Ruins SPHINX-MONEY, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where pyramids and temple wrecks are piled Last Line: To amon-ra through karnak's pillared halls. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Ruins; Sphinx SUGGESTED BY THE RUINS OF A MOUNTAIN-TEMPLE IN ARCADIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like stranded ice when freshets die Last Line: The quarries be! Subject(s): Greece; Ruins; Temples; Greeks; Mosques TEMPIO DI VENERE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A marble ruin nigh forgotten Last Line: So sturdy, arch, and gay! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Marble; Naples, Italy; Ruins THE COLLAPSE OF THE TWO-RIVERS HOTEL, by SAADI YOUSSEF Poem Text First Line: The desert is not far from it Alternate Author Name(s): Youssef, Saddi; Yusuf, Sa'di Subject(s): Hotels; Nostalgia; Ruins; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses THE DESERTED SHRINE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was the temple for a people's need Last Line: Of love that on forsaken hearts abide. Subject(s): Churches; Decay; Ruins; Shrines; Temples; Cathedrals; Rot; Decadence; Mosques THE FIFTEEN DAYS OF JUDGEMENT, by SEBASTIAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: Then there shall be signs in heaven Last Line: Mark yon shadow on the dial! Subject(s): God; Heaven; Judgment Day; Ruins; Storms; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE HOUSE OF YESTERDAY, by BLANCHE CHALFANT TUCKER Poem Text First Line: There's an old vacant house on the great highway Last Line: I stop just a moment, to show that I care. Subject(s): Houses, Deserted; Memory; Ruins THE KILN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the creek where seldom oar or sail Last Line: Of once grave seers, her iris woos the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Furnaces; Ruins; Kilns THE MASSY WAYS, CARRIED ACROSS THESE HEIGHTS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of those pure minds that reverence the muse Subject(s): Ruins; Time; Roads; History & Historians THE MOSQUE AT EPHESUS, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gray shell with a ruined tower Last Line: White on the mouldering tower. Subject(s): Decay; Ruins; Stones; Rot; Decadence; Granite; Rocks THE NAMELESS DOON [OR, RUIN], by WILLIAM LARMINIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who were the builders? Question not the silence Last Line: No faintest sigh of story lisps the wave. Subject(s): Ruins THE OLD MILL, by FORREST BENJAMIN ELLIOTT Poem Text First Line: A groaning din of broken-down machines Last Line: A tombstone landmark is the brief remain. Subject(s): Mills & Millers; Ruins THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 18, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I spur my horse past ruins Last Line: Unnamed in the records of immortals Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Animals; Chinese Literature; Decay; Horses; Lament; Mortality; Ruins; Rot; Decadence THE RAVAGED VILLA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In shards the sylvan vases lie Last Line: Makes lime for mammon's tower. Subject(s): Ruins THE RUIN, by MERLE FULLMER Poem Text First Line: About this place there drifts a sense of peace Last Line: Their monuments, to crumble and reveal. Subject(s): Decay; Past; Ruins; Rot; Decadence THE RUIN, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is the ruin ashell or a skeleton? Last Line: They meant to tell us Subject(s): Ruins THE RUIN AND ITS FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweets of the wild! That breathe and bloom Last Line: She seeks despair, with heart-reviving smile! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Flowers; Ruins THE RUINED CASTLE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Let me sigh to think this ruined pile Last Line: While forms of heroes animate her dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Castles; Ruins THE RUINED PALACE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Broken are the palace windows Last Line: Where once there sat a queen. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Ruins THE RUINS OF CORINTH, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, corinth, is the glory of thy keep Last Line: Unravished yet, to weep thy downfall stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Ruins THE RUINS OF LO-YANG, by TS'AO CHIH Poem Text First Line: I climb to the ridge of pei mang mountain Last Line: I am heart-tied and cannot speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-chien Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Ruins THE RUINS OF ROME; A POEM, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enough of grongar, and the shady dales Last Line: And the great queen of earth, imperial rome. Subject(s): Ruins THE RUINS OF SETON CHAPEL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful the powerful, and the proud Last Line: The pride and insignificance of man! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Altars; Churches; Prayer; Ruins; Worship; Cathedrals THOUGHTS STIRRED ON MEETING THE GARDENER OF ROYAL ACADEMY IN NANJING, by WU WEI-YEH Poem Source First Line: Cold tides dashed on the ruined fort Last Line: There was a pavilion to the south %where beech and bamboo gave off a light cool Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Ruins VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 6. RUINS OF PAESTUM, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On lowlands where the temples lie Last Line: The swift brown birds by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Paestum, Italy; Ruins WHERE A ROMAN VILLA STOOD, ABOVE FREIBURG', by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On alien ground, breathing an alien air Last Line: But not our english hills!' Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Nostalgia; Roman Empire; Ruins; Travel; Journeys; Trips WHERE AN OLD HOUSE STOOD, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit on a hill where an old house stood Last Line: Right through the old house helter-skelter. Subject(s): Ruins |
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