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Subject: MUSSOLINI, BENITO (1883-1945)
Matches Found: 12

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BREAKFAST WITH MY NEIGHBOR, by MICHAEL EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is my modernity: a bowl of green apples
Last Line: So long as mussolini was alive
Subject(s): Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945)


FASCISTS INTO ETHIOPIA, by EDWARD SANDERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: October 2: mussolini invaded ethiopia
Last Line: But became known as a masterwork
Subject(s): Ethiopia; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); U.s. - History


GHOSTS WALK UPON THEIR GRAVES, by NEAL GALLATIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: No longer does the war god beat
Last Line: Ghosts sit upon their graves and wait.
Subject(s): China; Ethiopia; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); War


LAST DAYS IN SALT LAKE CITY, by ROBERT MEZEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dwarfed by a building that would have delighted mussolini
Last Line: If you leap to a hasty conclusion and split for the coast
Subject(s): Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); Salt Lake City, Utah


LIMERICK, by THOMAS RUSSELL YBARRA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mussolini's pet marshal, graziani
Subject(s): Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945)


MUSSOLINI, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where dante sang the soul's great destiny
Last Line: The future -- while his carrion feeds the worm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill
Subject(s): Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945)


MUSSOLINI SAID A BOMB EXPLODING IN THE DESERT IS LIKE A, by JOAN RETALLACK    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Bewreathed no maters buoyant warm cracks in wings floating on dark water
Subject(s): Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945)


ODE TO MUSSOLINI, by RON PADGETT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mussolini, we do not want your brain in our country!
Last Line: For the hideous gray contents of your skull!
Subject(s): Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945)


ON THE WAY TO THE EXIT, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON                        Poet's Biography
First Line: I am glad of one thing
Subject(s): Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945)


ON THE WAY TO THE EXIT, by JAMES RICHARD BROUGHTON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am glad of one thing
Last Line: One will be lying about in the ruins %with ozymandias mussolini %and all the other residue of the mi
Subject(s): Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945)


TO PHILIP ROTH, FOR HIS EIGHTIETH, by FREDERICK SEIDEL    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945); Womanizers; Roth, Philip


WALKING HOME ALONE, AFTER A READING, YOUNG BEAST MOCKS STAR, by MAURICE KILWEIN GUEVARA    Poem Source                    
First Line: O, carnegie-mussolini university
Last Line: For the clapping was like an avalanche of fired coal
Subject(s): Mussolini, Benito (1883-1945)