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Subject: SAINT PETER'S CHURCH, ROME
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` IN ROME, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last the dream of youth
Last Line: And leads the world to heaven.
Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Saint Peter's Church, Rome


ITALIAN QUATRAIN: ROME: UNDER THE DOME OF ST. PETER'S, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last they builded wide enough, o lord!
Last Line: This lifting dome lifts on to where thou art!
Subject(s): Saint Peter's Church, Rome


SAINT PETER'S BY MOONLIGHT, by AUBREY DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Low hung the moon when first I stood in rome
Subject(s): Saint Peter's Church, Rome


SIR WALTER SCOTT AT THE TOMB OF THE STUARTS IN ST. PETER'S, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Eve's tinted shadows slowly fill the fane
Last Line: Ever should pass those holy walls beyond.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Graves; Saint Peter's Church, Rome; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Travel; Tombs; Tombstones; Journeys; Trips


THE ILLUMINATIONS OF ST. PETER'S, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Temple! Where time has wed eternity
Last Line: We blind our earthly eyes; -- to live we die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Saint Peter's Church, Rome