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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ITALIAN QUATRAIN: NAPLES - PALAZZO, by LEONORA SPEYER Poet's Biography
First Line: Lordly amid the rotting houses of the street
Last Line: These crumbling beggars catching at its dark and stony hem.
Subject(s): Naples, Italy
First Line: Lordly amid the rotting houses of the street
Last Line: These crumbling beggars catching at its dark and stony hem.
Subject(s): Naples, Italy
Lordly amid the rotting houses of the street
It lifts a marble scorn; while at its carven feet
They crowd in ancient filth. It does not look at them,
These crumbling beggars catching at its dark and stony hem.
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