Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ROME. BUILDING A NEW STREET IN THE ANCIENT QUARTER, by THOMAS HARDY 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 | ||||||||
THESE umbered cliffs and gnarls of masonry Outskeleton Time's central city, Rome; Whereof each arch, entablature, and dome Lies bare in all its gaunt anatomy. And cracking frieze and rotten metope Express, as though they were an open tome Top-lined with caustic monitory gnome; 'Dunces, Learn here to spell Humanity!' And yet within these ruins' very shade The singing workmen shape and set and join Their frail new mansion's stuccoed cove and quoin With no apparent sense that years abrade, Though each rent wall their feeble works invade Once shamed all such in power of pier and groin. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS ROMAN ELEGIES by JOSEPH BRODSKY ROMAN DIARY: 1951 by JOHN CIARDI VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 7. ROME by SARA TEASDALE ROMANESQUE ARCHES by TOMAS TRANSTROMER AN APARTMENT WITH A VIEW by JOHN CIARDI MANIFEST DESTINY by JORIE GRAHAM RUINES OF ROME by JOACHIM DU BELLAY AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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