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Subject: COLONNA
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` MADRIGAL, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O my eyes, you may be sure
Last Line: What then will you have to look at down here?
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Colonna, Vittoria (1492-1547)


MICHAEL ANGELO: VITERBO, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Parting with friends is temporary death
Last Line: A cloud of white, an incorporeal spirit!
Subject(s): Colonna, Vittoria (1492-1547)


OFF CAPE COLONNA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Aloof they crown the foreland lone
Last Line: And many a deadlier wreck.
Subject(s): Cape Colonna, Greece


SONNET: 8, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The best of artists never has a concept
Last Line: Are present in your heart, and my low skill, %burning, can grasp nothing but death from it
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Colonna, Vittoria (1492-1547)


SONNET: 8. TO VITTORIA COLONNA, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the prime mover of my many sighs
Last Line: Except through death, a refuge and a crown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Colonna, Vittoria (1492-1547)


SONNET: 8. TO VITTORIA COLONNA, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The best of artists hath no thought to show
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Colonna, Vittoria (1492-1547); Italian Renaissance


SONNET: TO VITTORIA COLONNA, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady, how can it chance - yet this we see
Last Line: And wherefore I so loved thee, may be seen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Variant Title(s): Art In The Service Of Love
Subject(s): Colonna, Vittoria (1492-1547)


SUNIUM, by NICHOLAS MICHELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: High o'er the billows sunium glances now
Last Line: Which glory owns and gods protect no more.
Subject(s): Sounion (cape), Greece; Colonna; Sunium


THE SUNIAN PALLAS, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By sunian's rock I took my way
Last Line: "go, fight, and win the conqueror's rest."
Subject(s): Sounion (cape), Greece; Colonna; Sunium


TO VITTORIA COLONNA, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the prime mover of my many sighs
Last Line: Except through death, a refuge and a crown
Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo
Subject(s): Colonna, Vittoria (1492-1547); Italian Renaissance