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Subject: TASSO, TORQUATO (1544-1595)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DRIFTING, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My soul today / is far away
Last Line: Where tasso's spirit soars and sings.
Subject(s): Italy; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Italians


ODE TO APOLLO, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In thy western halls of gold
Last Line: From thee, great god of bards, receive their heavenly birth.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Milton, John (1608-1674); Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Iliad; Odyssey; Dramatists


ON DELACROIX'S PICTURE OF TASSO IN PRISON, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The poet, sick, and with his chest half bare
Last Line: Round whom the real erects its stifling wall
Subject(s): Delacroix, Eugene (1798-1863); Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)


TASSO AND HIS SISTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sat, where on each wind that sighed
Last Line: He of the sword and pen!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Sisters; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Women


TASSO TO LEONORA: 1, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reproach me not because the many chide
Last Line: Or the forgetful dead sleeping appear to scorn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Immortality; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)


TASSO TO LEONORA: 2, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No, there is none in all the earth save thee
Last Line: That shatters and consumes and re-creates this frame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)


TASSO TO LEONORA: 3, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I shall forget thee -- yes, I shall forget
Last Line: Thy name a flower wrought in a poet's verse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Love; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)


TASSO TO LEONORA: 4, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art a sword that's sheathed in my heart
Last Line: And watched by those grim guardians, time and death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Love; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)


TASSO'S CORONATION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A crown of victory! A triumphal song!
Last Line: Way for the bier -- make way!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Death; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Dead, The


THE LAMENT OF TASSO, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Long years! It tries the thrilling frame
Last Line: To be entwined for ever -- but too late!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Ferrara, Italy; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)


THE RELEASE OF TASSO, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There came a bard to rome; he brought a lyre
Last Line: He leaves to man the ruin man hath made.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)