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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SCULPTURE & SCULPTORS Matches Found: 91 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BIT OF MARBLE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This bit of polished marble - this Last Line: Of lofty thought! Subject(s): Acropolis Of Athens; Elgin Marbles; Sculpture & Sculptors A NEW SCULPTOR, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once to my fancy's hall a stranger came Last Line: "here is thy neighbor." Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Sculpture & Sculptors A ROGERS GROUP, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How young and unassuming Last Line: By the rogers group they made Subject(s): Rogers, John (1829-1904); Sculpture & Sculptors A STUDY IN CLAY, by NELLIE MACK Poem Text First Line: The human face is a study to me Last Line: Which the soul of the miser daily feed. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues AFTER PIERO DI COSIMO'S VENUS, MARS, AND AMOR, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Naked on the ground Last Line: Mars's discarded armor. Subject(s): Mars (god); Mythology - Classical; Sculpture & Sculptors; Venus (goddess) AN ARTIST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That sculptor we knew, the passionate-eyed son of a quarry-man Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors AT THE MUSEE RODIN IN PARIS, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In front of a window Last Line: A shadow to the ground. Subject(s): Air; Museums; Paris, France; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Art Gallerys BEFORE THE APOLLO OF THE BELVEDERE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The horizon stirs us to boredom or to liveliness Last Line: Accept it, human, and return, divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Apollo; Architecture & Architects; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture & Sculptors BRONZES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They ask me to handle bronzes Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors CALDER'S HANDS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the little movie / at the whitney Last Line: Never doubted, never rested Subject(s): Calder, Alexander (1846-1923); Sculpture & Sculptors DR. RIMMER'S HAMILTON ON COMMONWEALTH AVENUE AND ARLINGTON STREET, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Granite unsharded by the fires of revolt Last Line: Hamilton, voice of sovereignty. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Sculpture & Sculptors DRIFTWOOD, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: God's castoff sculpture on the lesser scale Last Line: Gesture, these crumbling continents, god's juvenilia. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Creation; God; Sculpture & Sculptors; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore ENVY, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: If michelangelo could take my thought Last Line: Can leave me holy, passionate, alone. Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Sculpture & Sculptors FAUN AND MAIDEN (SUGGESTED BY MARBLE GROUP, UFFIZI GALLERY, FLORENCE), by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE Poem Text First Line: O faun, still whispering in the maiden's ear Last Line: O maiden tell—how soon, how soon, how soon! Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors FORM DESTRUCTIONIST?ÇÖSCULPTOR, by ROBERT MCALMON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And he turned at the corner near his boarding-house Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Critics & Criticism GIOVANNI'S 'RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN' AT WILDENSTEIN'S, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Showing the girl Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Rape GREEK SONNET, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A great greek sculptor, was praxiteles Last Line: And beauty dwells upon it evermore. Subject(s): Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Sculpture & Sculptors; Sonnet (as Literary Form) GUIDARELLO GUIDARELLI; RAVENNA WARRIOR (1502), by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Share our grief when mine is dumb. Subject(s): Death; Lombardo, Tullio (1455-1532); Ravenna, Italy; Sculpture & Sculptors; Soldiers; Dead, The HIRAM POWERS' GREEK SLAVE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say ideal beauty cannot enter Last Line: By thunders of white silence, overthrown. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Powers, Hiram (1805-1873); Sculpture & Sculptors I THINK I WILL MAKE THE MAN THIN, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors IN GALLERIES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guard has a right to despair. He stands by god Subject(s): Museums; Sculpture & Sculptors; Art Gallerys IN THE COURT OF THE LIONS; BY MOONLIGHT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These lions were sculptured centuries ago Last Line: Still on those courts the white moon shines, but they are gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Alhambra, The; Animals; Lions; Sculpture & Sculptors INSCRIPTION FOR AN ANTIQUE BUST OF HOMER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sculptor? - nameless, though once dear to fame Last Line: But this man bears an everlasting name. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors JADE MOTHER GODDESS, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frida came back and kicked away the features Last Line: The small inventory is simple – this sweaty speakerly master Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors LES SAINTS NOUVEAUX, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proust, doing penance Subject(s): Brancusi, Constantin (1876-1957); Cezanne, Paul (1839-1906); Paintings And Painters; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Sculpture & Sculptors LIMERICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: There once was a sculptor named phidias Last Line: Which shocked all the ultra-fastidious Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors METAMORPHOSIS IN ART, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No I won't,' said the stone Last Line: "is content to lie still!" Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors MICHELANGELO, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stern and grim-visaged, gaunt, and dark of gaze Last Line: Into unfurrowed fields of light. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Decay; Genius; History; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors; Sistine Chapel; Time; Rot; Decadence; Historians MONUMENT TO MRS. HOWARD, BY NOLLEKENS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stretched on the dying mother's lap, lies dead Last Line: And pain, hath powers to eternity endeared. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Nollekens, Joseph (1737-1823); Sculpture & Sculptors; Death - Babies MYCENAE, by C. R. R. Poem Text First Line: In agamemnon's tomb the poppy blows Last Line: The sculptor's column and the poet's clay. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors NO SWAN SO FINE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No water so still as the / dead fountains of versailles' Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors NYMPH AND ZEPHYR; A STATUARY GROUP, BY WESTMACOTT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the summer sun shone in the sky Last Line: "but in the search, not in the success." Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors ON A BUST OF ANTINOUS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon your face, with all its youthful glory, Last Line: Oh, blithe bithynian boy! Subject(s): Sacrifices; Sculpture & Sculptors; Youth ON A BUST OF DANTE, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, from this counterfeit of him Last Line: The marks have sunk of dante's mind. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Sculpture & Sculptors; Writing & Writers ON A HORSE CARVED IN WOOD, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horses of the sea; remember Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors ON A SCULPTOR WHO DIED YOUNG; J. MILO GRIFFITH, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art smiled on him, but one unchanging frown Last Line: Nay! For he giveth his beloved sleep! Subject(s): Death; Sculpture & Sculptors; Dead, The ON AN INTAGLIO HEAD OF MINERVA (1), by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the warrior's helm, behold Last Line: On such a bosom rise and fall so! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Minerva; Sculpture & Sculptors ON AN INTAGLIO HEAD OF MINERVA (2), by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cunning hand that carved this face Last Line: On such a bosom rise and fall so! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Minerva; Sculpture & Sculptors ON FLAXMAN'S [STATUE OF] PENELOPE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The suitors sinned, but with a fair excuse Last Line: Who, for a wife so lovely, slew them all. Subject(s): Flaxman, John (1755-1826); Sculpture & Sculptors ON SEEING MICHELANGELO'S MOSES, by JULIA JOHNSON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Jovelike, imperious, and unafraid Last Line: This is no man. It is the voice of god. Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Moses; Sculpture & Sculptors ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit is too weak - mortality Last Line: A sun - a shadow of a magnitude. Subject(s): Elgin Marbles; Parthenon; Sculpture & Sculptors ON THE BUST OF HELEN BY CANOVA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this beloved marble view Last Line: Behold the helen of the heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical; Sculpture & Sculptors PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sinful painter drapes his goddess warm Last Line: Beauty, which limbs and flesh enough invest. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors PAN LEARNS MUSIC; FOR A SCULPTURE BY SARA GREENE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Limber-limbed, lazy god, stretched on the rock Last Line: "out of a river-reed music for man!" Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Sculpture & Sculptors POSSIBILITIES (MICHAEL ANGELO'S DAVID), by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: A blunderer hewed too deep; the stone was laid Last Line: Our hands made deft by dreams of what might be! Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Sculpture & Sculptors ROMAN PORTRAIT BUSTS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Others in museums pass them by Last Line: But their putrefying individuality Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors SALSETTE AND ELEPHANTA, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis eve -- and o'er the face of parting day Last Line: And seeks redemption from the incarnate god. Subject(s): Elephanta Caves, India; Hinduism; Religion; Salsette (island), India; Sculpture & Sculptors; Theology SARAH'S MONSTERS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an entire row of monsters lined up Last Line: Across the front lawn's shadows. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors SCULPTOR OF THE SOUL, by TOYOHIKO KAGAWA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone Last Line: And made a molten cast of god's portrait on his own flesh. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Sculpture & Sculptors; Theology SCULPTURE AND SONG, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The statue - buonarroti said - doth wait Last Line: Till I ensnare it to captivity. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sculpture & Sculptors ST. WAGNES' EVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hop-shop is shut up; the night doth wear Last Line: Showed an engraving of his bas-relief. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Deverell, Walter H. (1828-1854); Hancock, John (d. 1869); Paintings And Painters; Sculpture & Sculptors THE 'MOSES' OF MICHAEL ANGELO, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who is he that, sculptured in huge stone Last Line: Had been your error in adoring him. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Jews; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Moses; Sculpture & Sculptors; Judaism THE CHAM TOWERS AT DA NANG, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God-faces that once glared at the sun Last Line: Their great-grandparents could not recollect. Subject(s): Colonialism; Sculpture & Sculptors; Vietnam THE CHARIOTEER OF DELPHI, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the horses of the sun? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Delphi; Sculpture & Sculptors; Castri THE CHICAGO PICASSO, AUGUST 15, 1967, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does man love art? Man visits art, squirms Subject(s): Art & Artists; Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973); Sculpture & Sculptors THE CHILD AND DOVE; SUGGESTED BY CHANTREY'S STATUE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art a thing on our dreams to rise Last Line: One vision away of the cloudless morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Chantrey, Sir Francis Legatt (1781-1841); Doves; Sculpture & Sculptors THE CHILD'S LAST SLEEP; SUGGESTED BY MOMUMENT OF CHANTREY'S, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleepst - but when wilt thou wake, fair child? Last Line: Beautiful dust! When we look on thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Chantrey, Sir Francis Legatt (1781-1841); Death - Children; Sculpture & Sculptors; Women; Death - Babies THE COLLEGE ATHLETE, by WALLACE RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Statue-like standeth he forth, quick, elate Last Line: Such as hath given martyrs mortal birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Groot, Cecil De Subject(s): Athletes; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues THE DYING SCULPTOR, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear my comrades' tools at busy morn Last Line: To study lowlier attitudes than thine.' Subject(s): Phidias (409-430 B.c.); Sculpture & Sculptors THE KNIGHT ERRANT, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirits of old that bore me Last Line: Sight of the dragon soon! Subject(s): Donatello (1386-1466); George, Saint (3rd Century); Knights & Knighthood; Sculpture & Sculptors THE LADY FROM MELOS, by WEET DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: Beautiful venus de milo Last Line: Cannot be expected to pet. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Venus De Milo THE MAD SCULPTOR, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far up in the quarry / I hewed a stone for pure delight Last Line: And reaches me his hands! Subject(s): Art & Artists; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE MARBLE QUEEN, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near the stately german palace Last Line: Has kept his word at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors THE PARALLAX MONOGRAPH FOR RODIN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt, last night, of your stone cabinet, porte de l'enfer Last Line: "it's hell, of course." Subject(s): Dreams; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Sex; Nightmares THE READING BOY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: He is carved in alabaster, he is called the reading boy Last Line: Discard that trojan magazine, and give a real good stretch. Subject(s): Books; Sculpture & Sculptors; Reading THE SAINTS OF NEGATIVITY; FOR ERMA POUNDS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the first snow in memory, and Last Line: The earth like a crust of bread absorbed them. Subject(s): Evil; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Sabotage; Sculpture & Sculptors THE SCULPTOR, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the noblest from his genius wrought Last Line: "nor peaceful happiness with strong desire." Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors THE SCULPTOR, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is my statue: cold and white Last Line: Before god's throne, I know. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors THE SCULPTOR'S VISION, by HENRIETTA CORDELIA RAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sculptor musing sat one eve Last Line: That floats through many olden lays. Alternate Author Name(s): Ray, Cordelia Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors THE SCULPTURED CHILDREN; ON CHANTREY'S MONUMENT IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair images of sleep Last Line: The faith, trust, joy, of immortality! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Monuments; Sculpture & Sculptors; Death - Babies THE SEA-SHELL, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou silver shell that liest near Last Line: Of days with gray is overcast. Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Memory; Sculpture & Sculptors THE SINGERS OF DELLA ROBBIA, by ALFRED BARRETT Poem Text First Line: Three florentines in stone, three singing boys Last Line: Like angel altos listening for their key! Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sculptor in the marble found Last Line: Beneath the noonday skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Sleep THE THIRD HOUR OF THE NIGHT, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When the eye Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors THE TOMB OF ILARIA GIUNIGI, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ilaria, thou that wert so fair and dear Last Line: Change it above for garments glorified. Subject(s): Carretto, Ilaria Del; Jacopo Della Quercia (1374-1438); Sculpture & Sculptors THE VENUS DE MILO, by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No human form or thing of clay e'er gave Last Line: Into the shoals of life degenerate. Alternate Author Name(s): Silvestre, Armand Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Venus De Milo; Women THE VENUS OF MILO, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Backward she leans, as when the rose unblown Last Line: Out of the slipping dream-stuff half withdrawn. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Venus De Milo THE VENUS OF MILO, by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No live girl's body hath such pride impassioned Last Line: Into the squalid vortex of despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Silvestre, Armand Subject(s): Beauty; Sculpture & Sculptors; Statues; Venus De Milo THE VENUS OF MILO, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goddess of dreams, mother of love and sorrow Last Line: On passion's dream, on love's divine despair. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Venus De Milo THE VENUS OF WILLENDORF, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She kneels on a work bench Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors THORWALDSEN, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We often fail by searching far and wide Last Line: Thorwaldsen carved his lion at lucerne. Subject(s): Thorvaldsen, Bertel (1770-1844); Sculpture & Sculptors; Desiny; Thorwaldsen, Bertel TO A CERTAIN POET, by LOTTIE BROWNING MURPHREE Poem Text First Line: Praxiteles revealed art thou Last Line: Of some grecian forest. Subject(s): Donatello (1386-1466); Poetry & Poets; Praxiteles (370-330 B.c.); Sculpture & Sculptors TO JOHN JOHNSON, ON HIS PRESENTING AN ANTIQUE BUST OF HOMER, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kinsman beloved, and as a son, by me! Last Line: Seek heavenly wealth, and work for god alone. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors TO LINCOLN'S BUST IN BRONZE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This bronze doth keep the very form and mold Last Line: Of armed strength: his pure and mighty heart. Variant Title(s): On The Life-mask Of Lincoln Subject(s): Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Sculpture & Sculptors TO MAY HOWARD JACKSON - SCULPTOR, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You saw the vision in the face of clay Last Line: Robed in a queenly majesty, resigned. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Jackson, May Howard (1877-1931); Sculpture & Sculptors TO THE VENUS OF MELOS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O goddess of that grecian isle Last Line: Which tells the secret of thy soul! Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors; Venus De Milo TWO MASKS UNEARTHED IN BULGARIA, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god was learning to draw the human face Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Bulgaria; Sculpture & Sculptors VENUS OF THE LOUVRE, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the long hall she glistens like a star Last Line: For vanished hellas and hebraic pain. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Louvre, Paris; Poetry & Poets; Sculpture & Sculptors; Venus De Milo VISION, by CHRISTIAN ERNST SCHNEIDER Poem Text First Line: The chisel's deft twist and the mallet's tap, tap Last Line: "with ""vision"" that effort inspires." Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Marble; Sculpture & Sculptors; Vision; Work; Workers WITH A SLIVER OF MARBLE FROM CARRARA, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old men beneath the mountain Last Line: Could not live long enough Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors WRITTEN AT MYCENAE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a weird procession glide along Last Line: Quiet, thought-bound, a stone upon a stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Mycenae, Greece; Sculpture & Sculptors |
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