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Subject: NERO, ROMAN EMPEROR (37-68 A.D.)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACTEA, by JAMES RENNELL RODD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the last bitterness was past, she bore
Last Line: Because she loved, thou art not wholly fiend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron
Subject(s): Fidelity; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Slavery; Faithfulness; Constancy; Serfs


CHILDREN OF LILITH, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Now tell me, villon, where is he
Last Line: What, brother villon, shall we say?
Subject(s): Children; Jesus Christ; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Rome, Italy; Villon, Francois (1431-1463); Childhood


CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY: BOOK 3, METRE 4, by ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Deah hine nu se yfela unrihtwisa
Last Line: Paet he him oy selra sie oooe pince?
Subject(s): Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.)


DIRE: 6. LOCUSTA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come close and see her and hearken. This is she
Last Line: Praying. There are who say she is bride of christ.
Subject(s): Cups; Hell; Jesus Christ; Nations; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.)


NERO, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "tush, take the wench"
Last Line: "people, depart and say there is a god"
Subject(s): "nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.);


NERO, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This rome, that was the toil of many men
Last Line: Brightening the aspect of eternity.
Subject(s): Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Roman Empire


NERO IN LOVE, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: G.L.B. Wiehen / w pronounec as v
Last Line: Into a life of crime
Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.)


OH, LYDIA, by SONIA RUTHELE NOVAK    Poem Text                    
First Line: When nero rode along the appian way
Last Line: In balked despair, his vengeances were meant!
Subject(s): Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Roman Empire


SIMPLE PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For what are we to think? But that philo
Last Line: From simple philo as from the whole.
Subject(s): Ignorance; Moon; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Rockets; Dullness; Stupdity


TO A NEO-PAGAN, by LEE WILSON DODD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Your praise of nero leaves me cold
Last Line: The mill of god with his angels in't!
Subject(s): Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Paganism & Pagans


TO THE COUNTESS OF EXETER, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What charms you have, from what high race you sprung
Last Line: Nor could he burn so fast, as thou could'st build.
Subject(s): Charm; Nero, Roman Emperor (37-68 A.d.); Praise; Rome, Italy; Women