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Subject: POMPEII, ITALY
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A GIRL OF POMPEII, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: A public haunt they found her in
Last Line: Itself, imperishably pure.
Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Youth


ANACREONTIC, by FRANCISCO MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let thunder burst
Last Line: A bottleful I drained
Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Poetry And Poets; Pompeii, Italy; Rome, Italy


AT POMPEII, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: At pompeii I heard a woman laugh
Last Line: Oh horrible! I heard a woman laugh.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Death; Pompeii, Italy; Dead, The


AT POMPEII, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: In sunless depths of old pompeian halls
Last Line: To naught would fall the shapes of sainted dread.
Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy


BACK HOME IN POMPEII, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A curiosity / on holiday
Subject(s): Pompeii, Ital


BACK HOME IN POMPEII, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A curiosity %on holiday
Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy


NARCISSUS: A POMPEIIAN BRONZE, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful boy, like a faun here in loneliness roaming, who art thou?
Last Line: Stranger, I tremble,—anew, thou a narcissus shalt be.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Pompeii, Italy; Statues


ON FIRST LOOKING INTO MICHAEL GRANT'S CITIES OF VESUVIUS, by GAVIN EWART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In battledress, yes I was there. That dramatic great wartime eruption
Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Rome, Italy; Travel


POMPEII, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the evening of the day of god
Last Line: Shall be a hymn of gratitude for thee.
Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy


POMPEII, by JOHN UPDIKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They lived, pompeiians
Last Line: Enslaved their liquids well; pornography %became their monument
Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy


POMPEII: A.D. 79, by EMILY FRAGOS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The day before, as there is always that
Last Line: Sliding under our feet at a little past noon
Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Volcanoes


POSEIDON AND AMPHITRITE, VILLA STABIA, POMPEII, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: That infatuated moment
Last Line: Of a detail lacking majesty
Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Pompeii, Italy; Travel


VOLCANOES, by BELLA AKHMADULINA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Extinct volcanoes are silent
Last Line: At your dead feet? Did he, didn't he, %bellow: 'forgive me!'?
Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Volcanoes