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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FLORENCE, ITALY Matches Found: 85 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A FIESOLAN IDYL, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where precipitate spring, with one light bound Last Line: Dropt it, as loth to drop it, on the rest. Variant Title(s): Faesulan Idyl Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Flowers ABOVE THE ARNO, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My room in florence was the color of air Last Line: As the breasts of botticelli's venus - foretinting dawn Subject(s): Florence, Italy AN EVENING IN TUSCANY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look! The sun sets. Now's the rarest Last Line: To a silver-centred pause! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Tuscany, Italy ARNO'S VALE, SELECTION, by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1711-1769) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When here, lucinda, first we came Last Line: "adieu the sweets of arno's vale." Alternate Author Name(s): Dorset, 2d Duke Of Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Nature AT FLORENCE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the shadow of a stately pile Last Line: And, for a moment, filled that empty throne. Subject(s): Florence, Italy AT FLORENCE (1), by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rapt above earth by power of one fair face Last Line: That through the realms of glory shines for aye. Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Florence, Italy AT FLORENCE (2), by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal lord! Eased of a cumbrous load Last Line: Help, and forgiveness speedy and entire. Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Florence, Italy AUTUMN GARDEN, by DINO CAMPANA Poem Source First Line: To the spectral garden to the silent laurel Last Line: She appears to me, here and present Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace Last Line: In china the bat is symbol of happiness. %not for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel BEFORE THE PICTURE OF THE BAPTIST, BY RAPHAEL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baptist might have been ordained to cry Last Line: "make straight a highway for the lord -- repent!" Subject(s): Florence, Italy; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Raphael (1483-1520) BENVENUTO CELLINI TO HIS MISTRESS, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now will I make my perseus-first of wax Last Line: In my first brawl, and thrilled from toe to crown Subject(s): Florence, Italy BERTHE AND FRANCESCA BRAGGIOTTI, by JOSEPHINE V. BROWER Poem Text First Line: Like the breath spirituelle of spring Last Line: And terpsichore discloses. Subject(s): Florence, Italy BOSTON TO FLORENCE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proud of her clustering spires, her new-built towers Last Line: And every language knows the song divine! Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Florence, Italy BY THE ARNO, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oleander on the wall Last Line: Or if the nightingale should die. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Arno River, Italy; Florence, Italy; Rivers CASA GUIDI WINDOWS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard last night a little child go singing Last Line: The vail, lean inward to the mercy-seat. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Italy - Revolutions; Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498) CORSO DE' FIORI, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the fight of roses; and to-day Last Line: With rosebuds, too, to give great spring his due Subject(s): Florence, Italy CYPRESSES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tuscan cypresses %what is it? Last Line: And mechanical america montezuma still Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Etruscan Civilization; Florence, Italy DAISIES OF FLORENCE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bambini picking daisies in the new spring grass Last Line: Ripening the transient under her veil Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Daisies; Florence, Italy; Flowers; Paintings And Painters DE HUGELINO COMITE DE PIZE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off the erl hugelyn of pyze the langour Last Line: Fro point to point, nat o word wol he faille Variant Title(s): The Tale Of Hugelyn Of Pyse The Langou Subject(s): Florence, Italy FAREWELL TO FIESOLE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fiesole, hilltop Last Line: Cypresses growing before it, and rooftops piled upon rooftops Subject(s): Florence, Italy FARINATA DEGLI UBERTI TO CONQUERED FLORENCE, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now shall the ploughshare over thee be passed Last Line: Live, and repent thee-spared at my command Subject(s): Florence, Italy FLORENCE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brightness of the world, o thou once free Subject(s): Florence, Italy FLORENCE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow river and the violet hills Subject(s): Florence, Italy FLORENCE, SELS., by SAMUEL ROGERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Florence, Italy FLORENCE, THE PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA, by CLIFTON SNIDER Poem Source First Line: Here is the spot where savonarola Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498) FLORENTINE MAY, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, still is the night; still as the pause after pain Last Line: Only the night can know. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Night; Bedtime FRA LIPPO LIPPI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am poor brother lippo, by your leave Last Line: Don't fear me! There's the gray beginning zooks! Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Guidi, Tommaso (1401-1428); Lippi, Fra Lippo (1406-1469); Paintings & Painters FROM BACCHUS IN TUSCANY, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This well of a goblet, so round and so long Last Line: Could tell it, for all the tongues in his mouth Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Florence, Italy FROM ELEGY ON THE BURYING PLACE CALLED CAMPO SANTO, by WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Shall th' unfeeling austrian's stern commands Last Line: Who teach their subjects to despise the dead! Subject(s): Florence, Italy FROM SOUTHERN MEMORIES, by GEORGE ARTHUR GREENE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O city fragrant with sweet memories Last Line: Touched by the morning ray Alternate Author Name(s): Greene, G. A. Subject(s): Florence, Italy FROM THE CAMPAGNA OF FLORENCE, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nearer we hail Last Line: In darkness, and with dangers compassed round %and solitude Subject(s): Florence, Italy FROM THE LAUREL OF LIBERTY, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Source First Line: O sweet firenze! What are all thy stores Last Line: And gain your gratitude, and win your love! Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Florence, Italy FROM VALLOMBROSA, by WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Here the traveler elate Last Line: Calm'd in the still abode of peace Subject(s): Florence, Italy GALILEO, by JAN CONN Poem Source First Line: In florence I stood on a narrow cobblestone street Last Line: Florence, I, like galileo, heard, or imagined I heard, %them sing Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Galileo (1564-1642) GIOVANNI FRANCHI, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The threewomen who all walked Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Wit & Humor GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 4. FRA ANGELICO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They called him angel brother, for his smile Last Line: Floats like a presence his so pure renown. Subject(s): Angels; Art & Artists; Florence, Italy; Jesus Christ; Soul GLOTTO'S TOWER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many lives, made beautiful and sweet Last Line: But wanting still the glory of the spire. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Florence, Italy IN APRIL ONCE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guido: thou are the knightliest jailer that ever stood Last Line: Voice of the madman. Son of david, have mercy on us! Subject(s): April; Churches; Florence, Italy; God; Plays & Playwrights; Popes; Prisons & Prisoners; Cathedrals; Papacy IN FLORENCE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired of all the quaintness Last Line: Along fifth avenue! Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Florence, Italy IN MEMORY OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back to the flower-town, side by side Last Line: His faultless fame. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers IN THE NOON-DAY'S GOLDEN PLESANCE, by THEODOSIA GARROW TROLLOPE Poem Source Last Line: Better they and we lay sleeping where the darkness hath no speech! Subject(s): Florence, Italy IN TUSCANY: IN FLORENCE, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: O tuscan days, my true, gold-hearted days Last Line: I see thee now, o little tuscan town! Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR THE NEGLECTED COLUMN IN THE PLACE OF ST. MARK AT FLORE, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Escap'd a race, whose vanity ne'er rais'd Last Line: And like a god, shall say, let there be liberty Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Florence, Italy JOHN MILTON; FROM EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, what passion for roaming lured me to traverse Last Line: Have taught their beech-trees to re-echo my name Subject(s): Florence, Italy L'ARICCIA, DEATH IN LIFE, by ISABELLA BLAGDEN Poem Source First Line: I gaze upon a scene of arcady Last Line: The gorgeous mask, the hollow brows of death! Subject(s): Florence, Italy LEGEND OF A TOMB IN FLORENCE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here he is, in marble, waiting by a tomb Last Line: And the knight and lady heavenward will go. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones LETTER TO ROBERT BROWNING, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All dat I've been writing dispatches Last Line: How I'm your true friend Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Florence, Italy MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 13, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now florence fills her lap with buds of may Last Line: "of sun and rain, of smile and sorrow born." Subject(s): Death - Children; Florence, Italy; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: SONNET, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis march; and on the hills that stretch away Last Line: Intone in march, as did their antique sires. Subject(s): Death - Children; Florence, Italy; Death - Babies ODE TO APATHY, SELS., by BERTIE GREATHEED Poem Source First Line: O! Would the sons of italy arise Last Line: Which apennines divide, and alps and seas surround Subject(s): Apathy; Florence, Italy ODE TO JOHN MILTON, AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, by ANTONIO FRANCINI Poem Source First Line: Up with me, clio, through the air Last Line: In silent wonder do her better part Subject(s): Florence, Italy ODE TO THE WEST WIND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being Last Line: If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Variant Title(s): Ode To The West Wind: I;the West Wind Subject(s): Autumn; Florence, Italy; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Theology; Ocean ODE TO WINTER, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Source First Line: O welcome to my soul congenial pow'r! Last Line: The deluge of thy tears Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Florence, Italy OLD PICTURES IN FLORENCE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morn when first it thunders in march Last Line: And florence together, the first am I! Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337) ON THE FLY-LEAF OF DANTE'S VITA NUOVA, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a tall stern exile once of old Last Line: Oft led him into heaven for an hour Subject(s): Florence, Italy ON THE ITALIAN COLOURS BEING REPLACED ON THE PALAZZO VECCHIO, by ISABELLA BLAGDEN Poem Source First Line: O'er the old tower, like bright flame curled Last Line: Witness and pledge to italy Subject(s): Florence, Italy ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky Last Line: Gazing in death on heaven from those wet rocks. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Florence, Italy; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters PONTORMO: 'ENTOMBMENT,' CAPPONI CHAPEL, FLORENCE, 1525-28, by DEVON MILLER-DUGGAN Poem Source First Line: These hunched, uncringing souls Last Line: The grief they have to hold Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Religion REVOLUTIONARY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at them standing there in authority Last Line: See if I am not lord of the dark and moving hosts %before I die Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Florence, Italy ROAD TO FIRENZE, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Source First Line: High hour draws near, the hour is meet Subject(s): Florence, Italy ROSA MUNDI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright petals of evening Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ROSA MUNDI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright petals of evening Last Line: As though it were filled with doves Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Love; Man-woman Relationships SAN MARCO MUSEUM, FLORENCE, by SISTER MARIS STELLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: San marco was as quiet on that day Last Line: Were lit but for the spirit's eye and ear. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Museums; Art Gallerys SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Summits and valed, sl;im cypresses and pines Subject(s): Florence, Italy SANTA MARIA NOVELLA, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: This lonely angular man in railway stations Last Line: And the catch of the station clock flips over Subject(s): Commuters; Florence, Italy; Railroads; Tourists; Travel SERENADE, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Source First Line: When o'er the tuscan plain wild winter threw Last Line: My eyes are never closed Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Florence, Italy SONG OF FIESOLE, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Fiesole, fiesole Last Line: I left my heart with you! Subject(s): Florence, Italy SONG; FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIUSEPPE MARIA BUONDELMONTE, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love often in the comely mien Last Line: He's still himself, and still is love Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Florence, Italy SONNET: TO L.T. IN FLORENCE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You by the arno shape your marble dream Last Line: For one poor cowslip or anemone. Subject(s): Absence; Florence, Italy; Homesickness; Separation; Isolation THE DANCE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You remember down at florence our cascine Last Line: Cried exultant in great wonder and free gratitude. Subject(s): Florence, Italy THE MIGRATION OF CITIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love paris Last Line: Ports where the red flag has secretly flown for years. Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Communism; Florence, Italy; Paris, France; Socialism; Urban Life THE OLD BRIDGE AT FLORENCE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taddeo gaddi built me. I am old Last Line: Hath leaned on me, I glory in myself. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Bridges; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE STATUE AND THE BUST, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a palace in florence, the world knows well Last Line: How strive you? De te, fabula! Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Statues THREE CITIES: 3. FLORENCE, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: To embrace the poet montale Last Line: Another constellation lights another rage Subject(s): Florence, Italy TO MY CHILD CARLINO, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carlino! What art thou about, my boy? Last Line: Redder than coral round calypso's cave. Subject(s): Children; Florence, Italy; Landor, Charles Savage (1825-1917); Childhood TO MY DAUGHTER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By that dejected city arno runs Last Line: O could I sleep and wake again in may! Subject(s): Daughters; Florence, Italy TRANSLATION FROM DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO 33, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thro' a small crevice opening, what scant light Last Line: The fourth, what sorrow could not, famine did Subject(s): Florence, Italy TRANSLATION FROM DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO 33, by THOMAS MEDWIN Poem Source First Line: Now had the loophole of that dungeon, still Last Line: Famine of grief can get the mastery Subject(s): Florence, Italy TROILUS AND CRESSIDA [CRISEYDE]: BOOK 1. CANTUS TROILI, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If no love is, o god, what fele I so? Subject(s): Desire; Florence, Italy; Love TROILUS AND CRESSIDA [CRISEYDE]: BOOK 1. CANTUS TROILI, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If no love is, o god, what fele I so? Last Line: For hete of cold, for cold of hete, I deye Subject(s): Desire; Florence, Italy; Love UGOLINO, by GEORGE ARTHUR GREENE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A little ray of light, unearthly pale Last Line: Till famine did its work, more sure than woe Alternate Author Name(s): Greene, G. A. Subject(s): Florence, Italy VENUS DE MEDICI, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But arno wins us to the fair white walls Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Approach To Florenc Subject(s): Florence, Italy VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 8. FLORENCE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bells ring over the arno Last Line: He gives eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Florence, Italy VITA NUOVA: SONNET, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you pilgrams, musing as ye go Last Line: Has power to move to weeping him who hears Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Florence, Italy |
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