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Subject: MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A TRADITION, by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Inspired, yet human in his aims alone
Last Line: Made the superbest marble-group—of snow!
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


BEETHOVEN AND ANGELO, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One made the surging sea of tone
Last Line: Raised children unto god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Music & Musicians; Worship


CONVERSATION WITH A JAPANESE STUDENT, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That lovely climbing vine, so fresh
Last Line: And tears.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Japan; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Nagasaki, Japan; Nuclear War; Paintings & Painters; Women; Japanese; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb


DEATH-BED REFLECTIONS OF MICHAEL-ANGELO, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not that my hand could make of stubborn stone
Last Line: For that vast love, that hangs upon the cross.
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


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


FIRE WITHOUT WITNESS, by MARK NEPO    Poem Source                    
First Line: God, how do I come to this?!
Last Line: Who feeds on death never dies! %what is the use of so much promised light?
Subject(s): Bible; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Sistine Chapel; Vatican Palace


FOR THE HOLY FAMILY, BY MICHELANGELO (IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Turn not to the prophet's page, o son! He knew
Last Line: The seed o' the woman bruise the serpent's head.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Catholics; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Women In The Bible; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Virgin Mary


GOOD HOPE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The cup of life is not so shallow
Last Line: Than angelo released.
Subject(s): Hope; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Optimism


MAKING THE KITCHEN A HOLY PLACE, by EDWARD BOCCIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I dress in a white sheet
Last Line: On the ceiling of the vatican
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Paintings And Painters


MICHAEL ANGELO, by AUGUSTE BARBIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: How sad a glance, how shrunk a face thou hast
Last Line: Renowned but weary thou didst leave the light.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Weariness; Fatigue


MICHAEL ANGELO, SELS., by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


MICHAEL ANGELO: DEDICATION, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing that is shall perish
Last Line: Quickened are they that touch the prophet's bones.
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


MICHAEL ANGELO: IN THE COLISEUM, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What do you here alone, messer michele?
Last Line: As yet unseen.
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


MICHAEL ANGELO: MONOLOGUE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Better than thou I cannot, brunelleschi
Last Line: Has he become since all my friends are dead.
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


MICHAEL ANGELO: THE DEAD CHRIST, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O death,why is it I cannot portray
Last Line: So near to death, and yet so far from god!
Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Dead, The


MICHAEL ANGELO: THE LAST JUDGMENT, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did the pope and his ten cardinals
Last Line: I will go forth and breathe the air a while.
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


MICHAEL ANGELO: THE OAKS OF MONTE LUCA, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How still it is among these ancient oaks
Last Line: Let us go in; we both will pray for peace.
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


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


MICHELANGELO, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, he was darkly haunted, we may say
Last Line: The anger of a god down-borne by earth.
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


MICHELANGELO, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Would I might wake up in you the whirl-wind soul
Last Line: God help us to be brave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


MICHELANGELO, by DOUGLAS GREY WORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A little man
Last Line: His room, the mirror avoided %before sleep the dim ceiling %swarming with gods
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


ODE TO THE STATUE OF MOSES; THE MASTERPIECE OF MICHAEL ANGELO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Statue! Whose giant limbs
Last Line: For ye had bent the knee to one of godlike mould!
Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.);jews;michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Judaism


ON AN UNFINISHED STATUE BY MICHAEL ANGELO, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What beauteous form beneath a marble veil
Last Line: With barren husks and harvesting of dreams.
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Statues


ON MICHAEL ANGELO, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis not to honor thee by verse of mine
Last Line: Which lives within thee, sole, and free of all.
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


ON MICHAEL ANGELO'S STATUE OF NIGHT: LINES BY GIOVANNI STROZZI, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA STROZZI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou seest the sleeping night in grace reclining
Last Line: Speak low, I pray thee, wake me not to pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Strozzi, Giovanni Battista ,the Elde
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Statues; Stones; Granite; Rocks


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


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


TERZA RIMA, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When michael angelo left the sistine dome
Last Line: O sublime blindness! O majestic fault!
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Sistine Chapel


TERZA RIMA, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From sixtus' fane, when michael angelo
Last Line: Blindness sublime! Inestimable fault!
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Sistine Chapel


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 ARCIERI OF MICHELANGELO, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye with your phantom bows, and sinews straining
Last Line: Transfixed, ye strain, and still no arrow flies!
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)


THE CROWN OF THORNS, by JESSE WILLIS JEFFERIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What recompense is theirs who, scorning gain and glory
Last Line: A wreath ineffable above his cross behold!
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Composers; Crowns; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Egypt; Galileo (1564-1642); Jesus Christ; Love; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Poetry & Poets; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Sphinx; Thorns; Galileo Galilei


THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us go then, you and I
Last Line: Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Aging; Alienation (social Psychology); Apathy; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Modern Man; Paralysis; Estrangement; Outcasts


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


THINKERS, by VICKI STRINGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like michelangelo giving each a home
Last Line: I love them all - those crazy mixed-up kids
Subject(s): Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Philosophy And Philosophers


TWO WORLDS: 2. MICHAEL ANGELO'S SLAVE, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of life, of death the mystery and woe
Last Line: Before the world had wakened to a soul
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)