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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ROME, ITALY Matches Found: 201 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BALLAD OF TANNHAUSER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hardy, tattered wretch is that Last Line: Tannhäuser and the queen of love. Subject(s): Christianity; Courts & Courtiers; Love; Paganism & Pagans; Redemption; Rome, Italy; Shame; Tannhauser (1200-1270); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens A BAROQUE WALL-FOUNTAIN IN THE VILLA SCIARRA, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the bronze crown / too big for the head of the stone cherub whose feet Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy A DAY IN THE PAMFILI DORIA, by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the hills are cold and snowy Last Line: The type of that city above. Subject(s): Rome, Italy A DREAM AT ARDEA (MAREMMA), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where ardea, the cliff-girt Last Line: The star of eve. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Sea; Venus (goddess); Nightmares; World; Ocean A LIKENESS (PORTRAIT BUST OF AN UNKNOWN, CAPITOL, ROME), by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In every line a supple beauty Last Line: His sorrow in a marble face. Subject(s): Brothers; Rome, Italy; Half-brothers 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 NEW PILGRIMAGE: 35, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At last I kneel in rome, the bourne, the goal Last Line: Clothed in new childhood and the light of heaven? Subject(s): Rome, Italy A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 36, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The majesty of rome to me is nought Last Line: In mists of passion and desires scarce dead. Subject(s): Rome, Italy A NUN, AT SEA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of god, they are sending me to rome Last Line: The sea is a terrible thing! Subject(s): Life; Nuns; Religion; Rome, Italy; Sea; Theology; Ocean A ROMAN'S CHAMBER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cave which wild weeds cover Last Line: It was then a chasm for devils. Subject(s): Rome, Italy A ROOM IN ROME, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The water-poet lay down with flowers Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Keats, John (1795-1821) A TRUE STORY (CONTINUED), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this great city now the haunt Last Line: Where purest love they feel; Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Nature; Rome, Italy AD ASTRA: 94, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Even as in later times imperial rome Last Line: As to forget her great augustan line. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Nations; Rome, Italy AD PISCATOREM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For these are sacred fishes all Last Line: And in the waters empty all thy bait. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Fish & Fishing; Rome, Italy AD QUINTILIANUM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O chief director of the growing race Last Line: Nights filled with slumber, and a quiet life. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Night; Rome, Italy; Bedtime ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A.U.C. 334: about this date Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sexism; Virginity; Vestals ADVICE TO YOUNG LADIES, by ALEC DERWENT HOPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A.U.C. 334: about this date Last Line: Than those who, in their folly not less blind, %trusted the servile womb to breed free men? Alternate Author Name(s): Hope, A. D. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sexism; Virginity AL FAR DELLA NOTTE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! / as a bubbling fount Last Line: On the flower of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Love; Nightingales; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers ALARIC AT ROME, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unwelcome shroud of the forgotten dead Last Line: And twine with bolder hand thy last memorial wreath! Subject(s): Rome, Italy AN APARTMENT WITH A VIEW, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am in rome, vatican bells tolling Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Christianity AN EPISTLE TO FLEETWOOD SHEPHERD, ESQ, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, / as once a twelvemonth to the priest Last Line: And wreaths round william's glorious head. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Rome, Italy AN ODE (3), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When great augustus governed ancient rome Last Line: Hangs up her grateful harp to conquest, and to peace. Subject(s): Augustus. Roman Emperor; 63 B.c.-12 A.d.; Courts & Courtiers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Rome, Italy 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 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 AQUILEIA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ropes, the ropes! Apollo send us ropes Last Line: Another day beheld the giant slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Apollo; Death; Hair; Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Soldiers; Dead, The ARRIVAL IN ROME, by JENNIFER GROTZ Poem Text First Line: My head aches, and the stale air burns Subject(s): Absence; Love; Railroads; Rome, Italy; Solitude; Travel; Separation; Isolation; Railways; Trains; Loneliness; Journeys; Trips AT ROME, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O richly soiled and richly sunned Last Line: Thy columns, set against thy sky! Subject(s): Rome, Italy AT ROME (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They - who have seen the noble roman's scorn Last Line: Nor must, nor will, nor can, despair of thee! Subject(s): Rome, Italy AT ROME (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this, ye gods, the capitolian hill? Last Line: Change, with a brow not insolent, though stern. Subject(s): Rome, Italy AT ROME - REGRETS - IN ALLUSION TO NIEBUHR (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those old credulities, to nature dear Last Line: Assent is power, belief the soul of fact. Subject(s): History; Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776-1831); Rome, Italy; Historians AT ROME - REGRETS - IN ALLUSION TO NIEBUHR (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Complacent fictions were they, yet the same Last Line: For the blood-thirsty mead of odin's riotous hall. Subject(s): History; Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776-1831); Rome, Italy; Historians AT SUNSET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Belov'd meran, supremely fair! Last Line: The past's sweet benison of peace. Subject(s): Evening; Nature; Past; Rome, Italy; Sunset; Twilight AVE MARIA IN ROME, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far away dim violet mountains Last Line: Pinnacled o'er rome. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Rome, Italy BAROQUE WALL-FOUNTAIN IN THE VILLA SCIARRA, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the bronze crown %too big for the head of the stone cherub whose feet Last Line: Toward which all hungers leap, all pleasures pass Subject(s): Art And Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy BAT-WINGS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flitter, flitter, through the twilight Last Line: Pipistrello. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Gnats; Rome, Italy BLACK SABBATH, by CAROLINE FINKELSTEIN Poem Source First Line: He liked being the director. I was dizzied by the way he jerked his chin at Last Line: Amphetamine, and wingless, absolutely... Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sabbath 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 CARACTACUS, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before proud rome's imperial throne Last Line: He bade the slave be free again. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Rome, Italy; War CATS OF ROME', by PAUL D. MCKERRY Poem Source Last Line: Thus leaving me %with these 'gatti.' Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Rome, Italy 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 CITIES: 4. ROME, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Raped of decadent power Last Line: The sacred rage of a rival despot thunder. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; War 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 CLOUDS (AGRO ROMANO), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As though the dead cities Last Line: In the heights of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Cities; Clouds; Heaven; Rome, Italy; Urban Life; Paradise CONQUERING EAGLES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I read the classic book -- and raised mine eyes Last Line: The conquering eagles of imperial rome! Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Rhyme; Rome, Italy; Sea; War; Ocean CORNELIA'S REPLY, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cornelia, a matron of ancient rome Last Line: The pure quenchless light of a mother's love! Subject(s): Family Life; Housewives; Love; Mothers & Sons; Rome, Italy; Wealth; Relatives; Riches; Fortunes DA BOY FROM ROME, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Today ees com' from eetaly Last Line: I weesh he stay at home. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Rome, Italy DE HORTIS JULII MARTIALIS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My martial owns a garden, famed to please Last Line: You half imagine all to be your own. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Rome, Italy DE PROFUNDIS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whence hast thou gone Last Line: Alma victrix! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bodies; Earth; Rome, Italy; Soul; Vision; World DIOCLETIAN'S PLACE, SPLIT, by PADRAIG J. DALY Poem Source First Line: Behind us, the boat rose Last Line: His only battle god, %the stirring ocean Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Rome, Italy DIRE: 9. THE AUGURS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay the corpse out on the altar; bid the elect Last Line: They carve the corpse -- a beast without a heart. Subject(s): Corpses; Leprosy; Nations; Rome, Italy; Cadavers; Lepers DREAMS IN ROME, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it that sings a sleepy tune in my head? Last Line: Is there no rest for me here? Are there dreams in rome? Subject(s): Dreams; Rome, Italy; Nightmares EASTER DAY [IN ROME], by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silver trumpets rang across the dome Last Line: "and bruise my feet, and drink wine salt with tears." Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Rome, Italy; The Resurrection EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 2. TREASURE, by ALBERTA BANCROFT Poem Text First Line: My trunk brought home the silken shawl Last Line: And on and on -- Subject(s): Danube (river); Rome, Italy; Travel; Treasures; Venice, Italy; Journeys; Trips EPILOGUE; IL BOSCO SACRO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the sweet silence Last Line: O bird, thy song! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Peace; Rome, Italy; Silence EPISTLES ON THE CHARACTER AND CONDITION OF WOMEN: 3, by LUCY AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye heaven-taught bards, who first for human woe Last Line: Thou, my calm friend, thou moralize the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Lucy Subject(s): Martyrs; Rome, Italy; Women's Rights; Feminism EPITHALAMIUM, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the streets the crowds go about their business Last Line: The time has come. I am waiting for you Subject(s): Rome, Italy EVENING: A STUDIO IN ROME, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The window here is hung in the west wall Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Swallows FEBRUARY IN ROME, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When roman fields are red with cyclamen Last Line: Trouble her soul till rome be no more rome. Subject(s): Rome, Italy FROM THE ALBAN HILLS, LOOKING TOWARDS ROME, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive, illustrious country! These deep sighs Last Line: On the third stage of thy great destiny. Subject(s): Rome, Italy GREAT LOCATITIES. ROME, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keen was the vision which ambition lent Last Line: From pio's grief, and antonelli's guile! Subject(s): Rome, Italy HIGH NOON AT MIDSUMMER ON THE CAMPAGNA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High noon Last Line: Of noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Graves; Night; Rome, Italy; Time; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime 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 HORATIUS [AT THE BRIDGE], FR. LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lars porsena of clusium Last Line: In the brave days of old. Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Variant Title(s): Ponte Sublico;horatius; A Lay Made About The Year Of The City Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Horatius; Rome, Italy; War; Valor; Bravery; Liberty I DUE SOGNI AD OCCHI APERTI: TWO DREAMS WITH EYES WIDE OPEN, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first dream with open eyes Subject(s): Cruelty; Dreams; Motion Pictures; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Songs I'M WALKING OUT ON ROME, by ANTONIO PORTA Poem Source Last Line: I grab a book I hate, the long goodbye, %and throw it into the fire Subject(s): Farewell; Rome, Italy IN JULY (SOUTH OF ROME), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale-rose the dust lying thick upon the road Last Line: Faint through the golden glimmer of the heat. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): July; Rome, Italy; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Wind IN MAXIMUM, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woulds't thou be free? I think it not indeed Last Line: Then, maximus, then first shalt thou be free. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Marriage; Rome, Italy; Wine; Weddings; Husbands; Wives IN PASSING, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: The dioscuri, I saw them, in a square in rome Last Line: But it was to one another that they smiled Subject(s): Rome, Italy IN ROME, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last the dream of youth Last Line: And leads the world to heaven. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Saint Peter's Church, Rome IN THE OLD THEATRE, FIESOLE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I traced the circus whose gray stones incline Last Line: The power, the pride, the reach of perished rome. Variant Title(s): In The Old Theatre, Fiesole (april 1887) Subject(s): Rome, Italy JET ASCENDS AND, FALLING, GOES, by CONRAD FERDINAND MEYER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And flows and rests Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Konrad Subject(s): Art And Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy LA VELIA (THE SEA GULL: PONTINE MARSHES), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the marsh Last Line: And the tumult of waters. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Sea; Sea Gulls; Wind; Ocean LUCIFER IN STARLIGHT, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Night' Man-woman Relationship LUCRETIA; A MONODRAMA, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, my father! Good valerius Last Line: (stabs herself.) Subject(s): Honor; Rape; Rome, Italy; Sacrifices; Suicide; Women MAGIC TOURS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN Poem Text First Line: I hear the far-off whistle of a train Last Line: Because a train has whistled on the track. Subject(s): Railroads; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips MANIFEST DESTINY, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Northbound, on the way to the station, through the narrow rutted Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Prisons & Prisoners; Language; Reality; Convicts; Words; Vocabulary MANIFEST DESTINY (2), by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She lifts the bullet out of the blazing case Last Line: Could not see %could not hold Subject(s): Prisons And Prisoners; Rome, Italy; Women MEDLEY OF THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS ON THE ITALIAN CRISIS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Had I a thousand mouths, a thousand tongues Last Line: For truth and liberty be found in rome. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courage; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy; Popes; Rome, Italy; Valor; Bravery; Italians; Papacy METAMORPHOSES: OF THE PYTHAGOREAN PHILOSOPHY, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A king is sought to guide the growing state Last Line: And all the muses o'er his acts preside. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Death; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Philosophy & Philosophers; Rome, Italy; Translating & Interpreting; Dead, The MIDSUMMER: 2, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Companion in rome, whom rome makes an old rome Last Line: Silver legions of mackerel race through our catacombs Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Summer NEAR ROME, IN SIGHT OF ST. PETER'S, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long has the dew been dried on tree and lawn Last Line: And yon resplendent church are proud to bear. Subject(s): Rome, Italy NEAR THE FORUM OF TRAJAN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In rome, as I look from my lattice Last Line: "and leave us the night." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Rome, Italy NEAR THE LAKE OF THYRASYEME, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When here with carthage rome to conflict came Last Line: That gave them being, vanish to a sound. Subject(s): Rome, Italy NEAR THE SAME LAKE [THRASYMENE], by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For action born, existing to be tried Last Line: This spot -- his shadowy death-cup in his hand. Subject(s): Rome, Italy NEWSPAPER FINDINGS: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet an' cozie, but an' ben Last Line: At the paris exhibition. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Newspapers; Politics & Government; Rome, Italy; Social Problems; English; Journalism; Journalists 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 ON MARRIAGE OF LADY GWENDOLIN TALBOT WITH ELDEST SON - PRINCE BORGHESE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! To decorate thy marriage morn Last Line: With the bright growth of each italian hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Marriage; Rome, Italy; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS BORGHESE, AT ROME, 1840, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, and but once again I dare to raise Last Line: Like some lone column of his native rome! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Death; Rome, Italy; Dead, The ON THE RUINS OF ROME, by BALDASSARRE CASTIGLIONE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sovereign hills, and hallowed disarray Last Line: Can bring as well the ending of my pain. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Ruins OVID IN EXILE, by GENE THORNTON Poem Source First Line: I hate the quiet, green suburban hills Last Line: That taper down too soon to red-eyed dawn Subject(s): Exiles; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Rome, Italy PARENT OF ROMANS, MEN' AND GODS' DELIGHT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Civilization; Rome, Italy PIAZZA DI SPAGNA, by WILLARD M. GRIMES Poem Source First Line: Here keats and shelley heard Subject(s): Rome, Italy PIAZZA DI SPAGNA, EARLY MORNING, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't forget Subject(s): Rome, Italy PIAZZA DI SPAGNA, EARLY MORNING, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't forget Last Line: Perfectly beautiful, perfectly ignorant of it Subject(s): Rome, Italy PRELUDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a grove of ilex Last Line: This is the gift of the flower of dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Lilies; Love; Rome, Italy; Nightmares PROTUS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among these latter busts we count by scores Last Line: To give you the crown-grasper. What a man! Subject(s): Decay; Statues; Rome, Italy; Rot; Decadence QUATRAIN: ROME, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above the circus of the world she sat Last Line: Shrieked at her feet and for her pastime died. Subject(s): Rome, Italy RED POPPIES (IN THE SABINE VALLEYS NEAR ROME), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the seeding grass Last Line: And the tall corn. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): Red Poppies In The Sabine Valleys Near Rome Subject(s): Italy; Poppies; Rome, Italy; Wind; Italians ROMA, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give to the wind thy locks; all glittering Last Line: Awake the tired ages and the world! Subject(s): Memory; Rome, Italy ROMA, by RUTILIUS CLAUDIUS NAMATIANUS Poem Source First Line: Again and again I kiss thy gates at departing Last Line: O'ercamest the sources of terror %in love will all that remains Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROMA AETERNA, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun %is warm today Last Line: Thine olden palatine the birds %still sing Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROMAN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The new moon Last Line: Of the superstition! Subject(s): Moon; Rome, Italy; Shadows ROMAN DIARY: 1951, by JOHN CIARDI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rag woman, half a child Last Line: “if I go broke,” I said, “I'll rent a baby” Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Begging & Beggars ROMAN DIARY: 1951, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rag woman, half a child Last Line: If I go broke, I said, I'll rent a baby Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROMAN ELEGIES, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The captive mahogany of a private roman Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROMAN ELEGIES, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The captive mahogany of a private roman Last Line: Enough to last one through the whole blackout Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROMAN EVENING, by PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Poem Source First Line: Where are you going through the streets of rome Last Line: Their miserable ends Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROMAN FOUNTAIN BORGHESE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two basins, one rising from the other Last Line: Gently smile from underneath with nuances Subject(s): Art And Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy ROMAN GIRL'S SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rome, rome! Thou art no more Last Line: As thou hast been! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Women ROMAN ROMAN, by CRESCENZO DEL MONTE Poem Source First Line: I'm a roman jew and I've been roman Last Line: While I, thank god, am still on my feet Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROMAN RUINS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How could rome live so long, and now be dead? Last Line: Little to please, and nought to bless mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Ruins ROMAN SONNETS: 6, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over their backs they let the turtles slip Last Line: Echo, lorenzo, of your melancholy Subject(s): Art And Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy ROMANESQUE ARCHES, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the huge romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half-darkness Last Line: And inside each of them vault opened behind vault endlessly Subject(s): Churches; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel; Cathedrals; Journeys; Trips ROMANESQUE ARCHES, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the huge romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half-darkness Last Line: And inside them all vault opened behind the vault endlessly Subject(s): Churches; Rome, Italy; Tourists; Travel ROME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "rome, from thy queenly walls lest glory die" Last Line: A pinioned victory wants the means to fly Subject(s): "rome, Italy; ROME, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou newcomer who seek'st rome in rome Last Line: And that which fleeteth doth outrun swift time. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Time ROME, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You, who behold in wonder rome and all Last Line: To raise the city from this ruined dust Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Ruins ROME, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rome has fallen; ye see it lying Last Line: Nature is also undying. Subject(s): Rome, Italy 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 ROME BURIED IN HER RUINS, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst these scenes, o pilgrim, seek'st thou rome? Last Line: Nought but the wave, a fugitive, -- remains. Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROME BY METELLA'S TOMB, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perchance she died in age - surviving all Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROME IN HER RUINS, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst these scenes, o pilgrim Last Line: Nought but the wave, a fugitive-remains Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Ruins ROME UNVISITED, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The corn has turned from grey to red Last Line: Of him who now doth hide his face. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROME. AT THE PYRAMID OF CESTIUS NEAR THE GRAVES OF SHELLEY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, then, was cestius / and what is he to me? Last Line: It is an ample fame. Subject(s): Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Rome, Italy; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822) ROME. BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE ANCIENT QUARTER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These umbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry Last Line: Once shamed all such in power of pier and groin. Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROME. THE VATICAN: SALA DELLE MUSE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat in the muse's hall at the mid of the day Last Line: Woo where thou wilt; and rejoice thou canst love at all!' Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Vatican Palace ROME: IN THE CAFE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She comes at eleven every morning Last Line: When he does not come at all Subject(s): Rome, Italy ROME: ON THE PALATINE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We walked where victor jove was shrined awhile Last Line: Till time seemed fiction, past and present one. Subject(s): 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 SAINT TELEMACHUS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had the fierce ashes of some fiery peak Last Line: Dark with the blood of man who murder'd man. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Rome, Italy SATIRE: 3, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Text First Line: Griev'd tho I am, an ancient friend Last Line: And add new venom, when you write of rome. Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Variant Title(s): The Satires Of Juvenal And Persius: The Third Satire Of Juvenal Subject(s): Country Life; Rome, Italy SATIRE: 3. ROME A GREEK CITY, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Source First Line: The nation by the great, admired, carest Last Line: Our long, long slavery thought upon no more Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Immigrants; Rome, Italy SAVONAROLA BURNING, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And there are no more emperors in rome Last Line: Each time a monk believes in liberty! Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Grief; Peace; Rome, Italy; War; Sorrow; Sadness SCIROCCO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softly as feathers / that fall through the twilight Last Line: Floats like a shadow adrift on the pastures. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): June; Love; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers SONNET (2), by PHILIPPE DESPORTES Poem Text First Line: Whilste all on fyre victorius rome blazed Last Line: Shee singes those plaintes that I weepinge do write. Subject(s): Rome, Italy SONNET (4), by JOACHIM DU BELLAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How gravelye wise was that senatours counsaile Last Line: Raisinge debate, twixte great pompey and caesar. Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim Subject(s): Rome, Italy SORGENDO DA LUNA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No sound / save the hush'd breath Last Line: And falleth. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Life; Rome, Italy; Time; Dead, The TARPEIA, by JULIET H. CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unblushingly the maiden stood Last Line: Of her reward was built. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Juliet H. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Treason & Traitors; Women TARPEIA, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe! Lightly to part with one's soul as the sea with his foam! Last Line: Woe to tarpeia, tarpeia, daughter of rome! Subject(s): Daughters; Rome, Italy; Soul; Women THE BATH, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With rosy palms against her bosom pressed Last Line: Hot in the sand a gladiator dies. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Rome, Italy; Showers & Showering THE BATHER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the sea-wind ruffles Last Line: Of the fragrant daphne. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Beauty; Daphne (mythology); Nudity; Rome, Italy; Sea; Nakedness; Ocean THE BATTLE OF THE LAKE REGILLUS, FR. LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, trumpets, sound a war-note! Last Line: "who fought so well for rome." Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): Rome, Italy THE BIGOT, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The foolish roman fondly thought Last Line: To fit your own contracted heart. Subject(s): Christianity; God; Pantheism; Racism; Religion; Rome, Italy; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Theology THE CALL OF THE COUNTRY, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Oh, my beloved! Death laughs here in rome Last Line: But only wander—wander to eternal peace. Subject(s): Patriotism; Rome, Italy THE CHAPEL BELL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo I, the man who erst the muse did ask Last Line: And roman rites retained, though roman faith be flown. Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Monks; Rome, Italy; Cathedrals THE CHINESE AND ROMAN ARTISTS; OR, THE MIRROR OF THE HEART, by JALAL AD-DIN (JALALUDDIN) AR-RUMI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This contest heed, of chinaman's and roman's art Last Line: With endless images reflections it incrust. Alternate Author Name(s): Mawlana; Rumi, Jalaluddin Molavi; Rumi; Dschellaleddin Pumi; Hilali Subject(s): Art & Artists; China; Rome, Italy THE CHRISTIAN MARTYR IN THE COLISEUM; 'CHRISTIANOS AND LEONES', by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christian, come forth! The hungering lions crave Last Line: Him may we, steadfast in the faith, resist! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Christianity; Coliseum, Rome; Martyrs; Rome, Italy THE DEATH OF ANTONINUS PIUS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the marble gates of ostia Last Line: And thine aequanimitas! Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Rome, Italy; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DEATH OF ODIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul of my much-lov'd freya! Yes, I come Last Line: Then rush'd to seize the seat of endless rest. Subject(s): Death; Love; Mythology - Celtic; Rome, Italy; War; Dead, The THE FESTAL HOUR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When are the lessons given Last Line: So darkly pressed and girdled in by death! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Dryads; Rome, Italy; Stonehenge; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark THE FOUNTAIN OF THE ACQUA PAOLA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not where thy turbid wave Last Line: Thy turbid wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Fountains; Rome, Italy THE GEORGICS: 2, 136. PRAISES OF ITALY, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But let not the forests of media, harbours of all wealth Last Line: And roman villages greet me their minstrel of ascra. Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Rome, Italy THE GROTTO OF EGERIA, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gush of waters! - faint and sweet and wild Last Line: And commune with a spiritual bride! Subject(s): Caves; Egeria (nymph); Rome, Italy; Caverns THE HALT BEFORE ROME, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it so, that the sword is broken Last Line: Proclaiming republican rome. Subject(s): Freedom; Nations; Rome, Italy; War; Liberty THE HERMIT'S SACRIFICE, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From rome's palaces and villas Last Line: Gladiators came no more. Subject(s): Hermits; Rome, Italy THE MANDOLIN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tinkle-trink, tinkle-trink, trinkle-trinkle, trink! Last Line: Trink! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Rome, Italy; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares THE MONUMENT OF GIORDANO BRUNO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not from without us, only from within Last Line: June 9,1889. Subject(s): England; Rome, Italy; Soul; English THE NAME WRIT IN WATER (PLAZA DI SPAGNA, ROME), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yonder's the window my poet would sit in Last Line: Listen! My waters will whisper his name. Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE NUPTIALS OF ATTILA, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flat as to an eagle's eye Last Line: Make the bed for attila! Subject(s): Attila, King Of The Huns (434-453); Love; Rome, Italy; War THE OBSEQUIES IN ROME, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Victor emanuel! - of prophetic name Last Line: Who made her italy! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Life; Rome, Italy; Victor Emmanuel Ii, King Of Italy THE PINE OF MONTE MARIO AT ROME, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw far off the dark top of a pine Last Line: Crowned with st. Peter's everlasting dome. Subject(s): Pine Trees; Rome, Italy; Trees THE POET'S TITLES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Holy euterpe teaches me to hate Last Line: And athens' fame. Subject(s): Athens, Greece; Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Rome, Italy THE PROPHECY OF CAPYS, FR. LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now slain is king amulius Last Line: "the mighty name of rome." Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): Rome, Italy THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How gentle here is nature's mood Last Line: Pledging the land to sorrowing loveliness. Subject(s): Italy; Rome, Italy; Italians THE ROMAN GRAVEMOUNDS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By rome's dim relics there walks a man Last Line: Yet its mourner's mood has a charm for me. Subject(s): Graves; Rome, Italy; Tombs; Tombstones THE ROMAN PHILOSOPHER TO CHRISTIAN PRIESTS, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well have ye spoken, but the words ye said Last Line: And I forget not, neither can forgive. Subject(s): Christianity; Rome, Italy THE RUINED HEART, by FRANCOIS COPPEE Poem Text First Line: My heart was as a roman palace fair Last Line: An humble hut from ruins of my pride. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Love; Rome, Italy; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE SHEPHERD (NEAR THE THEATRE OF MARCELLUS: PIAZZA MONTANARA), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Solitary he stands Last Line: Dwelleth and speaketh. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Shepherds & Shepherdesses THE SPANISH STAIRS-ROME, by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL Poem Text First Line: John keats, if he were living, with sad eyes Last Line: Three blind men fiddle in the gathering dusk. Subject(s): Monuments; Rome, Italy THE SWIMMER OF NEMI (THE LAKE OF NEMI: SEPTEMBER), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White through the azure Last Line: Curv'd like a flower o'er the waters of nemi. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Laughter; Nemi (lake), Italy; Rome, Italy; Swimming & Swimmers THE TIMES, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When caesar's rome's reluctant spirit broke Last Line: For deeper is the wound that does not bleed. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Rome, Italy THE ULTIMATE (1), by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the head of a man lies under the sod Last Line: Like mice have scuttled back into the air. Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Rome, Italy; Trees; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE ULTIMATE NATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once babylon, by beauty tenanted Last Line: She makes his ways her ways eternally? Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Fate; God; Nations; Rome, Italy; Sin; Dead, The; Destiny THE VISITOR (THE SHADE OF MARCUS AURELIUS GAZES ON MODERN ROME), by EDEN PHILLPOTTS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jupiter stator! Thou art dead indeed Last Line: Throbbing to nobler music. Subject(s): Marcus Aurelius (121-180); Rome, Italy THE WALL, by DAVID JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We don't know the ins and outs Last Line: That's the new fatigue Subject(s): Soldiers; Rome, Italy; Walls THE WHITE SLAVES; 1860, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The household of a roman, in rome's luxurious time Last Line: Let every soul cry, 'liberty!' and 'liberty for all!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Freedom; Household Employees; Rome, Italy; Slavery; U.s. - History; Liberty; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Serfs THE WILD MARE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a breath that comes and goes Last Line: The challenging scream of the conqueror-stallion. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Horses; Rome, Italy; Sea; Ocean THE WIND AT FIDENAE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh from the sabines Last Line: Bloweth the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Heaven; Rome, Italy; Wind; Paradise THIEF, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a roman tram, where the famous roman mob Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Tourists THOSE GRAVES IN ROME, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are places where the eye can starve, Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Friendship; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones 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 TIMGAD, by ELLEN VINTON Poem Text First Line: A forest of pillars in a barren plain Last Line: Reaching so far into this desert land. Subject(s): Cities; Rome, Italy; Urban Life TO CATULLUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My brother, my valerius, dearest head Last Line: My brother? Subject(s): Brothers; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Rome, Italy; Roundels; Half-brothers TO CLEMENT EDMONDS, ON HIS CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OBSERVED (2), by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who edmonds, reads thy book and doth not see Last Line: They murder him again, that envy thee. Subject(s): Edmondes, Clement (1564-1622); History; Rome, Italy; Historians TO CLEMENT EDWARDS, ON HIS CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES OBSERVED (1), by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not caesar's deeds, nor all his honours won Last Line: His life, but makes, that he can die no more. Subject(s): Edmondes, Clement (1564-1622); History; Rome, Italy; Historians TO ONE WHO NEVER GOT TO ROME, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who were once bereft of rome Last Line: Your dream of italy! Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908) TO ROME; BURIED IN ITS RUINS, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, 'tis vain! Midst rome thou seek'st for rome Last Line: Which seemed so fleet and fugitive remains. Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Rome, Italy 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 TWO IN THE CAMPAGNA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder do you feel today / as I have felt since, hand in hand Last Line: Of finite hearts that yearn. Subject(s): Fields; Love; Rome, Italy; Pastures; Meadows; Leas ULTIMO SOSPIRO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy of the world / o flower-crown'd spring Last Line: O sighs of longing. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Rome, Italy; Spring; Nightmares URBS SACRA AETERNA, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rome! What a scroll of history thine has been Last Line: The prisoned shepherd of the church of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Rome, Italy VIA DOLOROSA: 6. PSYCHAGOGOS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As greece of old acclaimed thee god and man Last Line: Nought, when we would have given: thou bidst him live. Subject(s): Death; Greece; Rome, Italy; Dead, The; Greeks VIEWS, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Being in rome I wonder will you go Last Line: When I may be your I, your rome my rome. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Rome, Italy; Male-female Relations VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 7. ROME, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for the rising moon Last Line: With unremembered things? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Rome, Italy VILLA SCIARRA: ROME, by CHRISTINE TURNER CURTIS Poem Source First Line: Everything shall be erased Subject(s): Rome, Italy VIRGINIA, FR. LAYS OF ANCIENT ROME, by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye good men of the commons, with loving hearts and true Last Line: God send rome one such other sight, and send me there to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Macaulay, 1st Baron Subject(s): Rome, Italy WRITTEN AT ROME, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in rome. Why, rome is lonely too Last Line: The hour of heaven Subject(s): Rome, Italy |
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