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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LETTER SENT FROM OCTAVIA TO HER HUSBAND MARCUS ANTONIUS INTO EGYPT, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To thee, yet dear though most disloyal lord
Last Line: To thee the heart that's thine, and so I end.
Subject(s): Egypt; Letters; Love; Marriage; Roman Empire; Women; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


A MEDITATION, by AGNES LEE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rome has been dead these many hundred years
Last Line: Rome still rules.
Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs.
Subject(s): Government; Language; Latin; Law & Lawyers; Legacies; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy; Words; Vocabulary; Attorneys


A ROMAN SENATOR, by JACQUES ANATOLE FRANCOIS THIBAULT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Caesar, on the stones of the deserted hall
Last Line: "I vote to give the imperial crown to cæsar!"
Alternate Author Name(s): France, Anatole
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Roman Empire


AENEID: THE CHARACTER OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let others better mold the running mass
Last Line: These are imperial arts, and worthy thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil
Subject(s): Roman Empire


AGLAE, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Atrium of aglae's house in rome. A fountain
Last Line: O christ, accept me! I believe!
Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Religion; Roman Empire; Theology


AN EPISTLE TO CURIO, by MARK AKENSIDE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice has the spring beheld thy faded fame
Last Line: And teach her slaves that vice was born to fear.
Subject(s): Freedom; Roman Empire; Slavery; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Serfs; Dictators


ANCIENT AND MODERN ROME, SELS., by GEORGE KEATE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What, though oblivion in her sable shroud
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Rome, Italy; Travel


AT LENNO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By lake como's sylvan shore
Last Line: I would dream that I am floating on the lake of long ago.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Life; Roman Empire; Nightmares


CALIGULA, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The pagan from his gorgeous bed
Last Line: The purple sea thy hands had shed!
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Rome, Italy


CALVUS IN RUINS, by CHARLES MARTIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Venus loves noting more than juicy gossip
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Calvus, Licinius Macer (82-47 B.c.)


CHESTNUT VENDOR, ROME, by ELIOT KAYS STONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: So old, she seems, the ages drape her form
Last Line: I glimpse that country in her faded eyes.
Subject(s): Old Age; Roman Empire; Women


CIVIL WAR: FIRST BOOK. CAESAR SUMMONS HIS FORCES FROM GAUL, by LUCAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When caesar saw his army prone to war
Last Line: Leaving your country open to the spoil
Alternate Author Name(s): Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Subject(s): Roman Empire


CIVIL WAR: FIRST BOOK. CIVIL WAR, by LUCAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wars worse then civill on thessalian playnes
Last Line: Against thy selfe: as yet thou wants not foes
Alternate Author Name(s): Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Subject(s): Roman Empire


CIVIL WAR: FIRST BOOK. THE CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR, by LUCAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All great things crush themselves; such end the gods
Last Line: Faith's breach, and hence came war, to most men welcome
Alternate Author Name(s): Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Subject(s): Roman Empire


CIVIL WARS OF ROME, DISCOURSED TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Others may breathing mettals softer grave
Last Line: To spare the humble, and the proud depresse
Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil
Subject(s): Roman Empire


CLEOPATRA TO ANTONY, by SARAH DOUDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spread a feast with choicest viands
Last Line: Egypt -- dear old nile! -- farewell.
Subject(s): Egypt; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy


CONQUERORS, by CARL JOHN BOSTELMANN    Poem Text                    
First Line: With caesar dead now, and augustus dust
Last Line: And life is theirs who love and keep their peace.
Subject(s): Peace; Roman Empire; Terror; War


CREOLE, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Names; Ancestors & Ancestry; Language; Creoles; Heritage; Heredity; Words; Vocabulary


DELIO PATRI, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more lake como's storied isle
Last Line: Their essence still remains the same.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Past; Roman Empire


EMBASSY ARCHITECTURE, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No frieze of abandon, goat-thigh willow. And no
Subject(s): Bacchus; Roman Empire


EPODE: TO THE PEOPLE OF ROME, COMMISERATING ... CIVIL WARS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now civill warres, a seond age consume
Last Line: If not, in name of heav'n abroad!
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Roman Empire; War


EPODES: 1, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You'll sail, dear friend maecenas, on your light liburnians
Last Line: Or sqaunder some feckless fool
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Roman Empire


FOR THE KING'S BIRTHDAY 1721, by LAWRENCE EUSDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When the great julius on britannia's strand
Last Line: Hush'd was the world when the messiah came.
Subject(s): Birthdays; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Europe; George I, King Of England (1660-1727); Odes (as Poetic Form); Olympus (mountain), Greece; Peace; Roman Empire; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens


HISTORY OF RELIGION, by MAREK BATEROWICZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the shadow of the pines
Last Line: Sun worship
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; History; Religion; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy


HORACE: CHORUS AT THE END OF ACT 4, by PIERRE CORNEILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rome, thou hast bought the triumph dear
Last Line: Even they themselves shall envy thee.
Subject(s): Roman Empire


I WAS ONCE A BOY, by RAZEL LEBENSBOIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was once a boy, a stripling
Last Line: And wild tales about the jews
Subject(s): Jews; Roman Empire; Socrates (470-399 B.c.)


IN A COLUMBARIUM, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn sun still bravely streams
Last Line: Love soars immortal to the skies.
Subject(s): Autumn; Love; Past; Roman Empire; Seasons; Time; Fall


IN THE ROMAN AMPHITHEATRE, VERONA, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two architects of italy - austere
Last Line: Here on the empty sand, a banish'd man.
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Roman Empire; Theater & Theaters


LAY OF ANCIENT ROME, by THOMAS RUSSELL YBARRA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the roman was a rogue
Last Line: From us of anno domini.
Subject(s): Roman Empire


LIBERTY, SELS., by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Greece; Italy; Roman Empire


LIBERTY: PART 1. ANCIENT AND MODERN ITALY COMPARED, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O my lamented talbot! While with thee
Last Line: Aspiring, thy commands to britons bear.
Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Roman Empire; Liberty; Italians


LIBERTY: PART 3. ROME, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here melting mix'd with air the ideal forms
Last Line: "disclosing, dazzle and dissolve his mind."
Subject(s): Freedom; Roman Empire; Liberty


MARIUS AT THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He turn'd him from the setting sun
Last Line: And then went forth to war again!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Carthage; Marius, Gaius (157-86 B.c.); Roman Empire; War


MY GARDEN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet garden, wreathed in fruits and flowers
Last Line: To-morrow's sun may never shine.
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Roman Empire


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


ODES I, 1, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maecenas, sprung from an ancient line of kings
Last Line: My soaring head will touch the stars
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Roman Empire


ODES I, 14. TO THE SHIP OF STATE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O ship! New billows bear you out again
Last Line: Flowing between the glinting cyclades
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Roman Empire


ODES II, 1, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The civil disturbance which began in the consulship of metellus
Last Line: And look for measures for a lighter plectrum
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Roman Empire


ODES II, 1. TO C. ASINIUS POLLIO, WHO HAS WRITTEN A HISTORY CIVIL WARS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The civil discord that began during the consulship
Last Line: Melodies plucked with a more delicate plectrum
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Pollio, Gaius Ansinius (76 B.c.-4 A.d.); Roman Empire - Civil Wars


ODES, BOOK III, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hate the profane mob and keep them at a distance
Last Line: To circle my hair with the laurel of delphi
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Roman Empire


ODES, BOOK IV, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back to war, venus, after all
Last Line: And the offspring of life-giving venus
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Roman Empire


OH SHE IS AS LOVELY - OFTEN, by KENNETH PATCHEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And tallness stood upon the sky like a sparkling mane
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Beauty


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


ON OLD ROME, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here was old rome that stretch'd her empire far
Last Line: Are but the sacred reliques of her tomb.
Subject(s): Roman Empire


ON PINCIAN HILL, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The roman world is gay and bright
Last Line: Each life its martyrdom.
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Rome, Italy


ON ROME AS IT IS NOW, by IANUS VITALIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou, who to look for rome, to rome art come
Last Line: And rivers, which are still in motion, stay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Vitalis, Janus
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Rome, Italy


ON ROME'S PARDONS, by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If rome can pardon sins, as romans hold
Last Line: To gull 'em of their souls and money too.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Roman Empire


POINT BALBIANELLO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From lake como's depths ascending
Last Line: And the poet's dream.
Subject(s): Beauty; Fear; Poetry & Poets; Roman Empire


PROLOGUE OF LABERIUS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Whither hath destiny (whose current strong)
Last Line: Save the poor legend of a tomb -- my name
Subject(s): "caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.);fate;roman Empire;" Destiny


ROMA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ripe hours there be that do anticipate
Last Line: To see as man may see when time is not.
Subject(s): Italy; Roman Empire; Italians


ROMAN GLASS, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even in the latter, raveling days of the republic, the romans clung archaically
Last Line: Even should the subject prove, the entire time, to have been lost
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Poetry And Poets; Roman Empire


ROMAN WOMEN, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Close by the mamertine
Last Line: O pincian woman, do not come to rome!
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Women


ROMAN YEAR, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The corrugated iron gates are
Subject(s): Roman Empire


ROMANS IN DORSET; A.D. 1895, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A stupor on the heath
Last Line: My juvenal! Distraught with love of violated law.
Subject(s): Dreams; Roman Empire; Vision; Nightmares


ROME, by WILLIAM S. SOTHEBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw the ages backward roll'd
Last Line: Thy second reign shall pass, -- pass like thy reign of yore.
Subject(s): Roman Empire


ROME, by IANUS VITALIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: New stranger to the city come
Last Line: Et quae perpetuo sunt agitata manent
Alternate Author Name(s): Vitalis, Janus
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Rome, Italy


ROME, by IANUS VITALIS    Poem Source                    
Last Line: You that a stranger in mid-rome seek rome
Alternate Author Name(s): Vitalis, Janus
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Rome, Italy


RUINES OF ROME, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye heavenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie
Last Line: And fill the world with never dying fame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Rome, Italy


RUINS OF ANCIENT ROME, by TARQUINIO GALLUZZI    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have seen triumphas arches of the wine country overthrown in
Subject(s): Roman Empire; Rome, Italy; Ruins


SECULAR HYMN, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phoebus, and diana, queen of forests
Last Line: I, who am the chorus taught to sing the praises of phoebus and diana
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Roman Empire


SORRENTO, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods are gone, the temples over-thrown
Last Line: And bind the myrtle buds to crown a purer venus.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature; Past; Roman Empire; Sorrento, Italy


TARQUIN'S DREAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When repose had come upon me and I yielded
Last Line: "that the old roman state shall flourish, and beyond all states endure"
Subject(s): Dreams;roman Empire;vision; Nightmares


THE MASTER OF PALMYRA, by ADOLF VON WILBRANDT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've lost my way - no tree, no spring; naught else
Last Line: (curtain.)
Subject(s): Palmyra, Syria; Roman Empire


THE OLD CAMP; WRITTEN IN A ROMAN FORTIFICATION IN BAVARIA, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a cloud before the sun
Last Line: If sadness fits the past.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin)
Subject(s): Bavaria; Camping; Life; Roman Empire; Camps; Summer Camps


THE TUTELAR OF THE PLACE, by DAVID JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She that love a place, time, demarcation, hearth, kin, enclosure
Last Line: World-storm, womb of the lamb the spoiler of the ram
Subject(s): Male-female Relationships; Roman Empire


THE VOICES OF ROME, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See, from the tower of the capitol, looking abroad
Last Line: To build an everlasting state.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Past; Roman Empire; Voices


TIBER, NILE, AND THAMES, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The head and hands of murdered cicero
Last Line: Breadless, with poison froze the god-fired breath?
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.c.); Cleopatra's Needle (obelisks); Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Keats, John (1795-1821); London; Poetry & Poets; Roman Empire; Rome, Italy


WHAT SHALL ENDURE?, by ETHELYN M. HARTWICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great roads the romans built that men might meet
Last Line: The walls are fallen, but the roads endure.
Subject(s): Permanence; Roads; Roman Empire; Walls; Paths; Trails


WHERE A ROMAN VILLA STOOD, ABOVE FREIBURG', by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On alien ground, breathing an alien air
Last Line: But not our english hills!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos
Subject(s): Nostalgia; Roman Empire; Ruins; Travel; Journeys; Trips