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Subject: NAPLES, ITALY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A NIGHT IN NAPLES, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is the one night in all the year
Last Line: It is long, long ago; it was far, far away!
Subject(s): Naples, Italy


ANGELITA, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She came from behind, from behind their lines
Last Line: And on his head her badge was glowing like a coal
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


BLACK MARKET, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a shack, in a field of mud. That's where she is
Last Line: Little rainbows %of excrement. %not a sound
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


BOMBS, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: How did I know? It was my window. Not the way you think, though
Last Line: Your hope your scream. Stopped everything. Everything. Still
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


CAPTAIN DIVER'S DINNER, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Enter a waiter, flitting between the tables
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


DA POSTA-CARD FROM NAPOLI, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY    Poem Text                    
First Line: So, you gon' sail for italy?
Last Line: No peecture-card from napoli?
Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A.
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips


DORA FILMS (1913), ELVIRA NOTARI IN NAPLES, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Virgil's body in a grove above naples
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil


DORA FILMS (1913), ELVIRA NOTARI IN NAPLES, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Virgil's body in a grove above naples
Last Line: Is the poem. -- the camera takes us, momentarily
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Virgil (70-19 B.c.)


EASTER DAY: NAPLES, 1849, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the great sinful streets of naples as I past
Last Line: Christ is not risen?
Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Naples, Italy; The Resurrection


EATING AN EEL, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's not your everyday catch, your eel
Last Line: How he's alive, in all his bones? He is your meat
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


EXAMINATION, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He was not a hunchback. So inherently no luck in him
Last Line: Rising and redoubling in the rubble to a howl
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


FINAL EXAMINATION, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's lucky %he's a young partisan who has been captured, not by
Last Line: Sixteen hours later, he hangs himself
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 7. NAPLES, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw at a table of the bombed cafe
Last Line: Changed into flies and drew a cloud about him
Subject(s): Flies; Naples, Italy; Ruins


GRANDFATHER'S TALE, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Start with what's in the blood. Old blood
Last Line: Listening to that whisper
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


HERE IS MUSIC: DEDICATION TO G.V.S., by AUSTIN PHILIPS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, vedi napoli,' (so the italians say
Last Line: "e poi muori!"
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Naples, Italy; Singing & Singers; Travel; Journeys; Trips


HUNGER, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The bay as smooth as aspic. Hulks
Last Line: Gazing out through clean, cracked glass
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


INVASION, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: We began with a thing we would never see again
Last Line: See again, we fought our way out of it, and into the other
Variant Title(s): Red Beach, Paestu
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


ITALIAN QUATRAIN: NAPLES - PALAZZO, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lordly amid the rotting houses of the street
Last Line: These crumbling beggars catching at its dark and stony hem.
Subject(s): Naples, Italy


KING OF ARAGON, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One day the king of arragon, from the old citadel
Last Line: (alas! Thou woeful city!) for whom I would have died
Subject(s): Absence; Alfonso V, King Of Aragon (1396-1458); Courts And Courtiers; Memory; Naples, Italy


KINGDOM OF HANDS, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: As you reach into your pocket, suddenly you touch an alien hand
Last Line: Like a speller, for words beginning with sounds no one has ever heard
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


LANDSCAPE, WITH FOOD, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dump runs down a wide ravine
Last Line: Hip deep in flames, they eat it all
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


LITERATURE AND POETRY, by MAX JACOB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was near lorient, the sun shone brightly
Last Line: The meandering paths left dry by the sea had made him think of the streets of naples
Subject(s): Literature; Naples, Italy


MARKET AT PORTA CAPUANA, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Comes out of the ground, comes out
Last Line: Hair, and very pure, egg-noodle, stars
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


NAPLES, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red tiles, yellow stucco, layer on layer of windows
Subject(s): Naples, Italy


NAPLES, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Red tiles, yellow stucco, layer on layer of windows
Subject(s): Naples, Italy


NAPLES AGAIN, by ARTHUR FREEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The hills yet hills, and still the yellow town
Last Line: May set its simpler meaning over mine
Subject(s): Naples, Italy


NAPLES AND VENICE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Overlooking, overhearing, naples and her subject bay
Last Line: Naples! Dumb as death thy voices, listen we however near.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Venice, Italy


NAPLES AT SUNSET, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Naples! Where virgil found his last repose
Last Line: Like love's fond lips to beauty's witching cheek.
Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E.
Subject(s): Naples, Italy


NAPLES IN THE TIME OF BOMBA, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind a span whose cheery pace
Last Line: Ringing down the curtain on the rose.
Subject(s): Ferdinand Ii, King Of Two Sicilies; Naples, Italy


NAPLES, 1590, by HELEN YETTA WALKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The same old scene of the same old play
Last Line: Over her silken knees.
Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Naples, Italy; Romance; Youth; Male-female Relations


NAPLES; A SONG OF THE SYREN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Still is the syren warbling on thy shore
Last Line: "murmuring -- thou art not free!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Sirens (mythology)


NAPLES; INSCRIBED TO ROBERT C. WATERSON, OF BOSTON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I give thee joy! - I know to thee
Last Line: "writing the grave with flowers: ""arisen again!"
Subject(s): Graves; Naples, Italy; Tombs; Tombstones


NAPOLI AGAIN, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long before I hear it, naples bright
Last Line: I only came %to see you living and the fountains run
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


NEAPOLITAN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Naples seems mostly mountains and mules
Last Line: But to fancy them flies!
Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Mountains; Naples, Italy; Mules; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NEIGHBORHOOD CLAIRVOYANT, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your body should respond to therapy
Last Line: Remember to receive death with true hospitality
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


NIGHTINGALES, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A gray and greasy smoke screen
Last Line: Resounds - resounds - resounds - resounds
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


NOCTURNE, by LEON PAUL FARGUE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A long arm embossed with gold slides from the tree tops
Last Line: God will hold out the happiness he promised us once
Subject(s): Literature; Naples, Italy


ODE TO NAPLES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood within the city disinterred
Last Line: This city of thy worship, ever free!
Subject(s): Naples, Italy


OLD CLOTHES, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A couple hundred weeks, a couple kilos more or less
Last Line: You're warm, you're moving through the streets. It's dinner time
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


PALM SUNDAY: NAPLES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because it is the day of palms
Last Line: Carry a palm for me.
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Palm Sunday


PATRON SAINT (1), by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Conquerors, I am alive in this relinquary! I am the owner of
Last Line: I am the harbinger of what can never not be
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


PATRON SAINT (2), by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Conquerors, you have heard my voice! You have shown me
Last Line: Ahead, eternity. You will not be missed
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


ROAD TO BENEVENTO, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The road to benevento seems to flow
Last Line: Of ages more dark and cold, and longer night
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


SONG FOR THE NEAPOLITANS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Too long we've borne what freemen ne'er
Last Line: Or die and leave it so!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur
Subject(s): Freedom; Naples, Italy; Patriotism; War; Liberty


SONNET ON THE SUBMISSION OF THE NEAPOLITANS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dastardly slaves! And is it - can it be
Last Line: And weep that thou producest things like these.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur
Subject(s): Freedom; Naples, Italy; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Dictators


STONK, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your stonk is your amreican way of winning your war
Last Line: Your stonk being your american way of doing war
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


TEMPIO DI VENERE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A marble ruin nigh forgotten
Last Line: So sturdy, arch, and gay!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Marble; Naples, Italy; Ruins


THE NEAPOLITANS TO MOZART, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Strange musical wizard! The spells of thine art
Last Line: Men have entertained angels ere now unawares!
Subject(s): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music & Musicians; Naples, Italy


THE PRISONERS OF NAPLES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have been thinking of the victims bound
Last Line: In love which is of thee, and which indeed thou art!
Subject(s): Freedom; Naples, Italy; Liberty


TO NAPLES, by HERBERT B. MALLALIEU    Poem Source                    
First Line: All day the coast of africa was seen
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; War


VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 3. NAPLES, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nisida and prosida are laughing in the light
Last Line: Oh when god made italy he was gay and young!
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Naples, Italy


WAR PASTORAL, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When they came, they came like honey from a jar
Last Line: Like shadows in the flaring, bloody sun
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


WHEEL, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Outside, night. You can barely breathe
Last Line: Don't want to dance. You want to know!
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii


WISTERIA, by BRUCE CUTLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: As he went to sleep it seemed to hug the wall and windows all the closer
Last Line: In a fine warm sweet-smelling midnight summer rain
Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Wisteria; World War Ii