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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VIRGIL (70-19 B.C.) Matches Found: 31 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AGNES AND ARIES, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fresh from the page of virgil's pollio Last Line: And shift at will from saffron to maroon. Subject(s): Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil DIDO OF TUNISIA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii; Male-female Relations; Vergil; Feminism; Second World War DIDO OF TUNISIA, by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had heard of these things before - of chariots rumbling Last Line: That men might struggle and fall, and not for love Alternate Author Name(s): Hayden, Charles, Mrs. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights; World War Ii DORA FILMS (1913), ELVIRA NOTARI IN NAPLES, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Virgil's body in a grove above naples Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil DORA FILMS (1913), ELVIRA NOTARI IN NAPLES, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Virgil's body in a grove above naples Last Line: Is the poem. -- the camera takes us, momentarily Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Virgil (70-19 B.c.) EPITAPH ON VIRGIL AND TIBULLUS, by DOMITIUS MARSUS Poem Text First Line: He who sublime in epic numbers rolled Last Line: Fit comrades in elysian regions move. Subject(s): Tibullus, Albius (55-19 B.c.); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil EURYDICE REVEALS HER STRENGTH, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Source First Line: Dying is the easy part Last Line: Singing to myself, not looking back Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women's Rights IN HELL WITH VIRG AND DAN: CANTO 17, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yo, dan, just give a look at this repulsive creature Last Line: And, man, when it unloads, it's outta there, like gone. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Translating & Interpreting; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Women; Women's Rights; Vergil; Feminism ODES I, 24. TO VERGIL: A DIRGE FOR QUINTILIUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How can we restrain our sorrow? Fence our grief Last Line: Whatever it is impossible to correct Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Quintilius Varus (d. 24 B.c.); Virgil (70-19 B.c.) ODES I, 24. TO VIRGIL, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unshamed, unchecked, for one so dear Last Line: The ills which they may not undo. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Quintilius Varus (d. 24 B.c.); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil ODES I, 24. TO VIRGIL, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How should this grief be properly put into words? Last Line: Will be at last made easier in the heart Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Quintilius Varus (d. 24 B.c.); Virgil (70-19 B.c.) ODES IV, 12. TO VERGIL, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Already the thracian winds, springtime's companion Last Line: O it is sweet at the proper time to play the fool! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Virgil (70-19 B.c.) ON A LEAF FROM THE TOMB OF VIRGIL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And was thy home, pale withered thing Last Line: Like his whose dust hath made that spot a shrine? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Tombs; Tombstones; Vergil ON SOME VERSES OF VIRGIL, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The goddess ceased, and with the soft embrace Last Line: And wooed calm slumber to o'er-glide his limbs Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Virgil (70-19 B.c.) ON THE DARING OF MAN, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O vessel bearing virgil greeceward now, Last Line: For our audacity thus perish, all? Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Hercules; Humanity; Mythology - Classical; Prometheus; Troy; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil ON VIRGIL, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sacred truth has pronounced that greece and rome Last Line: Gothic is living form Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Virgil (70-19 B.c.) PENTADIUS: ON VIRGIL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a swain, hind, knight, I fed, till'd, did command" Last Line: "goats, fields, my foes, with leaves, a spade, my hand" Subject(s): Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO; A SONNET, by CALVIN THOMAS Poem Text First Line: How oft, dear bard, in this ill-favored age Last Line: Shall breathe into my life a lesson for to-day. Subject(s): Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil PUBLIUS VERGILUS MARO, THE MADISON AVENUE HICK, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a heap o' pluggin' t' make a classic sell Last Line: It takes a heap o' pluggin' t' make a classic sell Subject(s): Guest, Edgar Albert (1881-1959); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil PUBLIUS VERGILUS MARO, THE MADISON AVENUE HICK, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It takes a heap o' pluggin' t' make a classic sell Last Line: It takes a heap o' pluggin' t' make a classic sell Subject(s): Guest, Edgar Albert (1881-1959); Virgil (70-19 B.c.) SCARRONIDES; OR VIRGILE TRAVESTIE, SELS., by CHARLES COTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the man, (read it who list Last Line: Have goddess no better manners? Subject(s): Scarron, Paul (1610-1660); Virgil (70-19 B.c.) SONNET: 9. DANTE AND VIRGIL, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When lost francesca sobbed her broken tale Last Line: A stately type of all his stately kind. Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil TENTH ECLOGUE: VIRGIL (2), by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Enough of singing now, pierian maidens Last Line: The evening star is rising; it's time to go home Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Virgil (70-19 B.c.) THE ANNIAD, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think of sweet and chocolate Last Line: The minuets of memory Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Virgil (70-19 B.c.) THE DOVE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In virgil's sacred verse we find Last Line: Says he; for sure I touch his feather. Subject(s): Cupid; Doves; Love; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Eros; Vergil TO VIRGIL, by HELEN DUNMORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lead me with your cold, sure hand Last Line: In the gaps, hold me secure. %let me come home to the air Subject(s): Virgil (70-19 B.c.) TO VIRGIL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Roman virgil, thou that singest Last Line: Ever moulded by the lips of man. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Writing & Writers; Vergil VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 1: SATIRE 6, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another scorns the home-spun threed of rimes Last Line: New coyne of words neuer articulate. Subject(s): Language; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Words; Vocabulary; Vergil VIRGIL'S TOMB, by WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON Poem Source First Line: We seek, as twilight saddens Subject(s): Italy; Virgil (70-19 B.c.) VIRGIL'S TOMB, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On an olive crested steep Last Line: The tinkling of the bells. Subject(s): Italy; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Italians; Vergil VIRGILS GNAT, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We now have playde (augustus) wantonly Last Line: The shepheard hath thy deaths record engraved. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Gnats; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Vergil |
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