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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ROMAN EMPIRE Matches Found: 69 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 |
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