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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ITALY - REVOLUTIONS Matches Found: 12 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TALE OF VILLAFRANCA; TOLD IN TUSCANY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little son, my florentine Last Line: What matter if we live? Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions AGESILAO MILANO; NAPLES, 1856, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the glory and the passion of this midnight Last Line: The passion of this hour, for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Milano, Agesilao; Regicide AN AUGUST VOICE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You'll take back your grand-duke? Last Line: Bah! -- call back the grand-duke!! Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions BARON GIOVANNI NICOTERA; SALERNO, 1858, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Salerno waits amid the heat Last Line: I behold god in heaven, and strive. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Courage; Italy - Revolutions; Nicotera, Baron Giovanni (1828-1894); Valor; Bravery 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) EXECUTION OF FELICE ORSINI, MARCH 13TH, 1858, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A day to be remembered Last Line: The red rose crown is thine %for evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Assassination; Capital Punishment; Italy - Revolutions; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Orsini, Felice (1819-1858) FIRST NEWS FROM VILLAFRANCA, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, peace, peace, do you say? Last Line: And god's face -- waiting, after all! Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Peace JACOPO RUFFINI; GENOA, 1833, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are betrayed and lost; and I am bound Last Line: God hid his face, but held him by the hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Ruffini, Jacobo (1805-1833) ON THE SLAUGHTER OF BROTHERS BANDIERI, BETRAYED TO THE KING OF NAPLES, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Borne on white horses, which the god of thrace Last Line: Till the same sands their viler blood imbue. Subject(s): Bandiera, Attilio (1810-1844); Bandiera, Emilio (1819-1844); Italy - Revolutions ST. AMBROSE'S, by GIUSEPPE GIUSTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your excellency, though you snarl and growl Last Line: Who rooted there firm as a fence-post stood %twirling his swagger-stick of hazel wood Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Landscape; Patriotism TO FRANCIS HARE; BURIED AT PALERMO, ON INSURRECTION OF SICILY & NAPLES, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hare! Thou art sleeping where the sun strikes hot Last Line: Nor higher than the living stand the dead. Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions UGO BASSI, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fra ugo bassi, servant of our lord Last Line: That when I meet him, I may meet thee too! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Bassi, Ugo (1801-1849); Biography; Catholic Church - Clergy; Firing Squads; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy - Revolutions; Rome, Siege Of (1849); Biographers; Catholic Priests |
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