Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CITIES: 4. ROME, by CALE YOUNG RICE


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CITIES: 4. ROME, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Raped of decadent power
Last Line: The sacred rage of a rival despot thunder.
Subject(s): Rome, Italy; War


Raped of decadent power
By a strong chief of the Black Shirts
Who swept like a Goth down on her
From Tuscan hills,
She gives herself to toil
And glory in his house,
And again feels self-healing
Flow like Tiber through her.
Yet ever, as of old,
Hears, from high St. Peter's,
The sacred rage of a rival despot thunder.





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