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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: ITALY Matches Found: 1075 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 11-NOV-54, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: November 11, 1954, at ten p.M. Last Line: And slowly began to fade away Subject(s): Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528); Genoa, Italy; Portraits 1851: A MESSAGE TO DENMARK HILL, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dearest father, it is the year's first day Last Line: Gone now as all must go. Your loving son, / john Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Italy; Loss; Italians 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 DREAM IN A GONDOLA, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream of waters: I was borne Last Line: Alone, -- by moonlight, -- in a gondola. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Gondolas & Gondoliers; Venice, Italy A DREAM OF VENICE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Numb, half asleep, and dazed with whirl of wheels Last Line: These were the sounds that called me back to life. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Venice, Italy A FIESOLAN IDYL, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where precipitate spring, with one light bound Last Line: Dropt it, as loth to drop it, on the rest. Variant Title(s): Faesulan Idyl Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Flowers A GIRL OF POMPEII, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN Poem Text First Line: A public haunt they found her in Last Line: Itself, imperishably pure. Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Youth A HAILSTORM IN VENICE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hail like cannon-shot struck the sea Last Line: The great, white, beautiful, highborn rain! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Venice, Italy A HILL, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In italy, where this sort of thing can occur Subject(s): Italy; Italians A LADY OF PARIS BORDONE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saidst genoa? Ah well, it may be true Last Line: Her bosom whose limpid veil droops wide apart. Subject(s): Genoa, Italy A LAST CONFESSION, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our lombard country-girls along the coast Last Line: Soon, when she shows the crimson steel to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Lombardy, Italy A LETTER FROM ITALY, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While you, my lord, the rural shades admire Last Line: And lines like virgil's or like yours, should praise Subject(s): England; Freedom; Italy; Montagu, Charles. 1st Earl Of Halifax; Travel; English; Liberty; Italians; Journeys; Trips 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 MASQUE OF VENICE, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a stain / in the sun-brimmed sapphire Subject(s): Italy; Italians 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 MOOD IN ITALY, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the fluted / velvet datura's Last Line: This the crown! Subject(s): Italy; Italians A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 30, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis time I stepped from horeb to the plain Last Line: "here wise men long have lived, and live to-day." Subject(s): Italy; Italians A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 31, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, italy is wise, a cultured prude Last Line: Saw henry kneel in tears at peter's foot? Subject(s): Italy; Italians A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 32, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I was at milan, in such thought Last Line: "all shall abandon me to-night."" so I." Subject(s): Last Supper, The; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Milan, Italy; Paintings & Painters 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 NIGHT IN NAPLES, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the one night in all the year Last Line: It is long, long ago; it was far, far away! Subject(s): Naples, 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 SONG OF ITALY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a windy night of stars that fell Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Italy; Love; Nations; Dead, The; Liberty; Italians A STREET MELODY, by BELLE COOPER Poem Text First Line: A song soars from a sordid city street Last Line: Assisi lifts her towers to heaven again. Subject(s): Catholics; Italy; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Italians A SUMMER IN TUSCANY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you remember, lucy Last Line: Till we too forget and die! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Relationships; Tuscany, Italy A TALE OF VILLAFRANCA; TOLD IN TUSCANY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little son, my florentine Last Line: What matter if we live? Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions 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 A VENETIAN SUNSET: BEFORE A CHANGE (RETURNING FROM TORCELLO), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In violet hues each dome and spire Last Line: Fan-like, from venice to the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Evening; Sea; Venice, Italy; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean A VIEW ACROSS THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the dumb campagna-sea Last Line: To inaugurate rome for a world amazed! Subject(s): Campagna Di Roma, Italy A WATER-COLOUR OF VENICE, by LAWRENCE DURRELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zarian was saying: florence is youth Subject(s): Venice, Italy ABOVE THE ARNO, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My room in florence was the color of air Last Line: As the breasts of botticelli's venus - foretinting dawn Subject(s): Florence, Italy ACROSS THE FINGER'S BREADTH OF, by DANEEN WARDROP Poem Source Last Line: You, gleaming, hyphenate us Subject(s): Genoa, 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 AFTER LEAVING ITALY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair land! Thee all men greet with joy; how few Last Line: Mother of heroes, from thy death-like sleep! Subject(s): Italy; Italians AFTER LEAVING ITALY (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As indignation mastered grief, my tongue Last Line: My heart, and filled that heart with conflict strong. Subject(s): Italy; Italians AFTER READING 'AN ITALIAN GARDEN', by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To him no more an inward hate Last Line: Again might blossom to the moon! Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Italy; Italians AGESILAO MILANO; NAPLES, 1856, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For the glory and the passion of this midnight Last Line: The passion of this hour, for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Milano, Agesilao; Regicide 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 ALFREDO, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Still young and thin, my grandfather stands in the ploughed Last Line: And silently tells me the infinite paths of the sky Subject(s): Italy AMALFI, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet the memory is to me Last Line: In the land beyond the sea. Subject(s): Italy; Italians AMPHITHEATRE AT POZZUOLI, by HENRY TAYLOR (1800-1886) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The strife, the gushing blood, the mortal throe Subject(s): 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 AUGUST VOICE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You'll take back your grand-duke? Last Line: Bah! -- call back the grand-duke!! Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions AN EPISODE, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vasari tells that luca signorelli Last Line: Firm and dry-ey'd before the lordly canvas. Subject(s): Italy; Vasari, Giorgio (1511-1574); Italians 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 EVENING IN TUSCANY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look! The sun sets. Now's the rarest Last Line: To a silver-centred pause! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Tuscany, Italy AN INCIDENT AT PISA, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the common burial-ground Last Line: In this angel-planted earth? Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Cemeteries; Pisa, Italy; Graveyards AN ITALIAN BEGGAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, little girl, the road beside Last Line: For this land of lands and this day of days! Subject(s): Beauty; Begging & Beggars; Flowers; Hearts; Italy; Roses; Italians AN ITALIAN TO ITALY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Along the coast of those bright seas Last Line: "I feel thee, bless thee, mine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Italy; Italians 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 ANGELITA, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: She came from behind, from behind their lines Last Line: And on his head her badge was glowing like a coal Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii APPIAN WAY, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awe-struck I gazed upon that rock-paved way Subject(s): Italy APPROACH TO GENOA, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At length the day departed, and the moon Subject(s): Italy 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 ARA COELI, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever will go to rome may see Subject(s): Italy ARNO'S VALE, SELECTION, by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1711-1769) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When here, lucinda, first we came Last Line: "adieu the sweets of arno's vale." Alternate Author Name(s): Dorset, 2d Duke Of Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Nature 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 ASCENSION NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take a bath enveloped Subject(s): Ascension Day; Italy; Italians ASCENSION NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take a bath enveloped Last Line: Moonlight over the alps %in a stormy sky Subject(s): Ascension Day; Italy ASOLANDO: PONT DELL' ANGELO, VENICE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop rowing! This one of our bye-canals Last Line: Row, boys, fore and aft, rhyme and chime! Subject(s): Venice, Italy ASSISI, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know a city on a hill, a mountain's castled crown Last Line: Assisi grew into the light, as flowers and children grow. Subject(s): Italy; Italians AT ALBANO, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days passed - and monte calvo would not clear Last Line: For by her son's blest hand the seed was sown. Subject(s): Italy; Italians AT AMALFI, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here might I rest forever; here Subject(s): Italy AT BOLONGA, IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE INSURRECTION, 1837: 1, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah why deceive ourselves! By no mere fit Last Line: The light of knowledge, and the warmth of love. Subject(s): Bologna, Italy; Revolutions AT BOLONGA, IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE INSURRECTION, 1837: 2, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard task! Exclaim the undisciplined, to lean Last Line: She scans the future with the eye of gods. Subject(s): Bologna, Italy; Revolutions AT BOLONGA, IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE INSURRECTION, 1837: 3, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As leaves are to the tree whereon they grow Last Line: Tossed on the bosom of a stormy sea. Subject(s): Bologna, Italy; Revolutions AT CASTELLAMARE, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, my myrto, with the birth of day Subject(s): Castellammare Di Stabia, Italy; Italy AT FANO, by JAMES RENNELL RODD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dearly honoured, great dead poet, still as living Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron Subject(s): Fano, Italy; Travel AT FLORENCE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the shadow of a stately pile Last Line: And, for a moment, filled that empty throne. Subject(s): Florence, Italy AT FLORENCE (1), by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rapt above earth by power of one fair face Last Line: That through the realms of glory shines for aye. Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Florence, Italy AT FLORENCE (2), by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal lord! Eased of a cumbrous load Last Line: Help, and forgiveness speedy and entire. Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Florence, Italy AT LANUVIUM, by JAMES RENNELL RODD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spring grew to perfect summer in one day Alternate Author Name(s): Rennell, 1st Baron Subject(s): Italy AT POMPEII, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At pompeii I heard a woman laugh Last Line: Oh horrible! I heard a woman laugh. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Pompeii, Italy; Dead, The AT POMPEII, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: In sunless depths of old pompeian halls Last Line: To naught would fall the shapes of sainted dread. Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy 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 AT THE CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grieve for the man who hither came bereft Last Line: The most profound repose his cell can give. Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Italians AT THE CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI (CONTINUED), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world foresaken, all its busy cares Last Line: Give him a soul that cleaveth unto thee. Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Italians AT THE EREMITE OR UPPER CONVENT OF CAMALDOLI, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What aim had they, the pair of monks, in size Last Line: Meet on the solid ground of waking life. Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Italians AT THE TOMBS OF THE HOUSE OF SAVOY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turin beneath, on the green banks of the po Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians AT THE VILLA CONTI, by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What peace and quiet in this villa sleep! Subject(s): Italy AT VENICE, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O beautiful beneath the magic moon Subject(s): Italy AT VERONA, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How steep the stairs within kings' houses are Last Line: My love, and all the glory of the stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Verona, Italy AUGUST ON THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA, by FREDERIC CROWNINSHIELD Poem Source First Line: Some sparkling morn before the august rays Subject(s): Italy AUTUMN GARDEN, by DINO CAMPANA Poem Source First Line: To the spectral garden to the silent laurel Last Line: She appears to me, here and present Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening AUTUMN'S DONE; THEY HAVE THE GOLDEN CORN IN, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I go elsewhere Subject(s): Corn; Harvest; Italy AUTUMNAL, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long before she died my mother told me Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Venice, Italy; Dead, The 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 AZURE GROTTO, by CHARLES DENT BELL Poem Source First Line: Beneath the vine-clad slopes of capri's isle Subject(s): Italy BACK HOME IN POMPEII, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A curiosity / on holiday Subject(s): Pompeii, Ital BACK HOME IN POMPEII, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A curiosity %on holiday Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy BAIAE (BAJA), by NICHOLAS MICHELL Poem Source First Line: But baiae, soft retreat in days of yore Subject(s): Italy BAIAE (BAJA), by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There baiae seens no more the joyous throng Subject(s): Italy BARON GIOVANNI NICOTERA; SALERNO, 1858, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Salerno waits amid the heat Last Line: I behold god in heaven, and strive. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Courage; Italy - Revolutions; Nicotera, Baron Giovanni (1828-1894); Valor; Bravery 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 BASIL, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: When the first had driven us to the house from chiusi Last Line: By the stars on your way to the sleep that lies behind that teasing %scent of morning Subject(s): Italy BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips BAT, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At evening, sitting on this terrace Last Line: In china the bat is symbol of happiness. %not for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Florence, Italy; Travel 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 BEFORE THE OLD CASTLE OF VERONA, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Green adige, 'twas thus in rapid course Subject(s): Italy BEFORE THE PICTURE OF THE BAPTIST, BY RAPHAEL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baptist might have been ordained to cry Last Line: "make straight a highway for the lord -- repent!" Subject(s): Florence, Italy; John The Baptist, Saint (1st Century); Raphael (1483-1520) BELLS OF FOSSOMBRONE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Up the highlands, steep and stony Subject(s): Italy BELLS OF LOMBARDY, SELS., by LUCIEN STRYK Poet's Biography Subject(s): Lombardy, Italy BELOW SAN GIMIGNANO, by JOHN V. A. MACMURRAY Poem Source First Line: My city overmasters plain and hill Subject(s): Italy BENVENUTO CELLINI TO HIS MISTRESS, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now will I make my perseus-first of wax Last Line: In my first brawl, and thrilled from toe to crown Subject(s): Florence, Italy BEPPO: A VENETIAN STORY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis known, at least it should be, that throughout Last Line: But stories somehow lengthen when begun. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Frere, John Hookham (1769-1846); Venice, Italy BERTHE AND FRANCESCA BRAGGIOTTI, by JOSEPHINE V. BROWER Poem Text First Line: Like the breath spirituelle of spring Last Line: And terpsichore discloses. Subject(s): Florence, Italy BIANCA'S DREAM; A VENETIAN STORY, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bianca! - fair bianca! - who could dwell Last Line: In twenty minutes, to lose half an hour! Subject(s): Venice, Italy BIRTHDAY POEM FROM VENICE, by PATRICIA BEER Poem Source First Line: From this swaying city Last Line: A cat, five minutes created, sits with a pigeon. %happy birthday Subject(s): Venice, Italy BLACK MARKET, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: In a shack, in a field of mud. That's where she is Last Line: Little rainbows %of excrement. %not a sound Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii 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 BOMBS, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: How did I know? It was my window. Not the way you think, though Last Line: Your hope your scream. Stopped everything. Everything. Still Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii BOSTON TO FLORENCE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proud of her clustering spires, her new-built towers Last Line: And every language knows the song divine! Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Florence, Italy BOYHOOD OF COLUMBUS, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not when this hope enthralled me first Subject(s): Italy BRUNDISIUM, by LUCAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Unequal thus to caesar, pompey yields Alternate Author Name(s): Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Subject(s): Italy BY THE ARNO, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oleander on the wall Last Line: Or if the nightingale should die. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Arno River, Italy; Florence, Italy; Rivers BY THE ARNO (SUNSET), by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the mountains and the sea Last Line: In the cypress land. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Arno River, Italy; Rivers CADENABBIA; LAKE OF COMO, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sound of wheels or hoof-beat breaks Last Line: And be as if thou hadst not been. Subject(s): Lake Como, Italy CAELIAN HILL, by BESSIE RAYNER PARKES Poem Source First Line: Of all the seven which rome doth boast Subject(s): Italy 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 CALOGERO, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buon riposo, signorino Last Line: Dolce, bel calogero. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Italy; Strangers; Italians CAMP SANTO AT PISA, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There needs not choral song, nor organ's pealing Subject(s): Italy CAMPAGNA SEEN FROM ST. JOHN LATERAN, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it the trampling of triumphant hosts Subject(s): Italy CAMPAGNANO, ITALY, 1921, by JOANNA A. PIUCCI Poem Source First Line: I want to be far from the werewolves Last Line: I will know I am hearing them %for the last time Subject(s): Italy; Werewolves CANADA NOT LAST, by WILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo venice, gay with color, lights and song Last Line: Tive land. Alternate Author Name(s): Schuyler-lighthall, William Douw Subject(s): Canada; Italy; Patriotism; Canadians; Italians CANNAE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Save where garganus, with low-ridged bound Last Line: So sharp a check of greatness so supreme. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Italy; War; Italians CANOSSA, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've been to canossa Last Line: And lo, I am the victor! Subject(s): Canossa (castle), Italy CAPRI, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an isle, kissed by a smiling sea Subject(s): Italy CAPRIAN WINE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring me a cup of the vintage of capri Last Line: I bless thee for giving this caprian wine. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Capri, Italy; Drinks & Drinking; Wine CAPTAIN DIVER'S DINNER, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Enter a waiter, flitting between the tables Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii CAPUA, by JOHN NICHOL Poem Source First Line: First of old of oscan towns! Subject(s): 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 CARMINA: 31, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sirmio, thou dearest dear of strands Last Line: And art, mine own unrivalled fair! Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Sirmione, Italy; Homecoming CARNIVAL, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the places where the carnival Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Italy CARNIVAL, VENICE: A MEDITATION ON GENERATIONS, by ANN SNODGRASS Poem Source First Line: One hundred years now Last Line: I knew right away there would be no teacher Subject(s): Carnivals; Venice, Italy CARP, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: We were between the pasta and the secundo piatto Last Line: Brightened the scales of the fish, gilding its lozenged skin Subject(s): Italy CASA GUIDI WINDOWS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard last night a little child go singing Last Line: The vail, lean inward to the mercy-seat. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Italy - Revolutions; Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498) CASTELLO, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The triton in the ilex-wood Last Line: The gardens of castello! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Italy; Italians CATS OF ROME', by PAUL D. MCKERRY Poem Source Last Line: Thus leaving me %with these 'gatti.' Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Rome, Italy CENCIAJA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I print, shelley, how it came to pass Last Line: That victor rules, this present year, in rome? Subject(s): Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Italians CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE: CANTO 4, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood in venice on the bridge of sighs Last Line: If such there were -- with you, the moral of his strain! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Travel; 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 CIGARETTE FOR THE BAMBINO, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hey, joe! Cugarrette! Cioccolat'! Subject(s): Italy; War 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 COMO IN APRIL, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is winter, though the sun be spring Last Line: The wind be winter if the heart be spring? Subject(s): Lake Como, Italy 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 CONVENT OF LA VERNA, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a lofty spot Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Convents; Italy CONVERSATIONAL ITALIAN, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems the only reason I have come to italy Last Line: I have lost the key. %look! There's the runway! Subject(s): Italy; Travel 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 CORSO DE' FIORI, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the fight of roses; and to-day Last Line: With rosebuds, too, to give great spring his due Subject(s): Florence, Italy CORSO: THE ROMAN CARNIVAL, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who can forget thy carnival, rome, thy carnival Subject(s): Italy COUNTESS LAURA, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a dreary day in padua Last Line: In silver whiteness over padua. Subject(s): Italy; Tragedy; Italians CUMAE, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Weeping he spoke, then gave his fleet the reins Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Italy CYPRESSES, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tuscan cypresses %what is it? Last Line: And mechanical america montezuma still Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Etruscan Civilization; Florence, Italy 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 DA POSTA-CARD FROM NAPOLI, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: So, you gon' sail for italy? Last Line: No peecture-card from napoli? Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips DAISIES OF FLORENCE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bambini picking daisies in the new spring grass Last Line: Ripening the transient under her veil Subject(s): Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Daisies; Florence, Italy; Flowers; Paintings And Painters DAWN AT VENICE, by MARTHA GILBERT DICKINSON Poem Source First Line: One burnished cloud first turned a jagged prow Subject(s): Italy DAWN IN ITALY AND IN LONDON, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the sombre cypresses Last Line: And the slum of grim despair. Subject(s): Despair; Italy; London; Italians DAY-DAWN IN ITALY, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Italia! In thy bleeding heart Last Line: "for god and liberty!" Subject(s): Italy; Italians 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 HUGELINO COMITE DE PIZE, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off the erl hugelyn of pyze the langour Last Line: Fro point to point, nat o word wol he faille Variant Title(s): The Tale Of Hugelyn Of Pyse The Langou Subject(s): Florence, 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 DEAR PIERRE:, by DAN MACHLIN Poem Source Last Line: Well that's all for now. Ciao, dear sir! Your friend every day since, for many %years to come Subject(s): Italy; Letters; Sicily DECEMBER IN ITALY, by KATHLEEN MCGOOKEY Poem Source First Line: All those nights looking up at the sky, wanting to be there Last Line: I keep playing with light and losing Subject(s): December; Italy; Night DECISIONS, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: I hear my son's bicycle still Last Line: They were erected to restore Subject(s): Italy DESOLATION OF VEII, by BESSIE RAYNER PARKES Poem Source First Line: Twas on a sabbath morning that we wandered Subject(s): Italy DIANA, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Diana, out of italy, my sister's protegee Last Line: "for the gods possess their copies of 'diana at the bath!' " Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Guests; Italy; Showers & Showering; Visiting; Italians 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 DIVINA COMMEDIA, SELS., by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Christmas; Italy; Religion DIVINA COMMEDIA: INFERNO, SELS., by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Italy DOGANA, by MARCELIN PLEYNET Poem Source First Line: Dazzled %blind %turning in the gilded cage of the world Last Line: One's got to laugh in their wake %now one's got to laugh Subject(s): Books; History; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Letters; Librarians And Libraries; Poetry And Poets; Sailors And Sailing; Venice, Italy DOMESDAY BOOK: THE CONVENT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elenor murray stole away from nice Last Line: Out of a curious but hardened heart. Subject(s): Convents; Italy; Letters; Life; Nuns; Prayer; Italians DONIZETTI IN A COMA, BERGAMO, 1848, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: Donizetti told us music and home were Last Line: Then we carried him to this bed, to sleep %without waking in the place of his birth. Subject(s): Italy 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.) DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 3, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zoroaster long ago %said poetry presents us Last Line: Ever saw growing on the trees Subject(s): Dragons; Italy; Unicorns 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 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 DRINKING TEA WITH EZRA POUND IN VENICE, by WILLIAM DORESKI Poem Source First Line: Christmas has passed and the light Last Line: And how deeply in living creatures %such lordly trauma adheres Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Food And Eating; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Tea; Venice, Italy DUOMO, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Twilight the hour. How doubly twilight here Subject(s): Italy DUOMO, MILAN, by RAYMOND HENRI Poem Source First Line: Here living and the stone Subject(s): Architecture And Architects; Churches; Milan, Italy 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 EASTER DAY: NAPLES, 1849, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the great sinful streets of naples as I past Last Line: Christ is not risen? Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Naples, Italy; The Resurrection EATING AN EEL, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: He's not your everyday catch, your eel Last Line: How he's alive, in all his bones? He is your meat Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii ELEVATED, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three stories up the town in venice: there Subject(s): Venice, Italy EN ROUTE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore art thou strange Last Line: Dear land, take my tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Farewell; Italy; Parting; Italians 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 EN TOUR; A SONG SEQUENCE: 3. GENOA, by ALBERTA BANCROFT Poem Text First Line: And have you been to genoa Last Line: With a hundred years' supplies. Subject(s): Flying Dutchman (ship); Genoa, Italy EPICEDIUM: WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Say, who shall mourn him first Last Line: And his first word was noble as his last! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878); Italy; Kisses; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Italians EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "while his beard has grown gray, black as ever remain" Last Line: The brain has had little or nothing to do Subject(s): Italy;reason;talk; Italians;intellect;rationalism;brain;mind;intellectuals 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 ERCOLANO, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: I think of the name of ercolano Last Line: Traffic of life under the volcano Subject(s): 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 EVENING: PONTE A MARE, PISA, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is set; the swallows are asleep Last Line: Which the keen evening star is shining through. Subject(s): Evening; Pisa, Italy; Sunset; Twilight EVIL EYE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nona poured oil on the water and saw the eye Last Line: Though I had one already and the other came Subject(s): Italy; Superstition EXAMINATION, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: He was not a hunchback. So inherently no luck in him Last Line: Rising and redoubling in the rubble to a howl Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii EXECUTION OF FELICE ORSINI, MARCH 13TH, 1858, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A day to be remembered Last Line: The red rose crown is thine %for evermore Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Assassination; Capital Punishment; Italy - Revolutions; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Orsini, Felice (1819-1858) FALLS OF TERNI, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roar of waters! - from the headlong height Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Italy FAME, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: In pisa's baptistry the uttered word Last Line: In the vast silence that receiveth all. Subject(s): Pisa, Italy FAREWELL TO FIESOLE, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fiesole, hilltop Last Line: Cypresses growing before it, and rooftops piled upon rooftops Subject(s): Florence, Italy FAREWELL TO ITALY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We lingered at domo d'ossola Last Line: Ah! How can he forget? Subject(s): Italy; Italians FAREWELL TO ITALY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I leave thee, beauteous italy! No more Last Line: And light us to our chamber at the grave. Subject(s): Farewell; Italy; Parting; Italians FAREWELL TO TUSCANY, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We pass, but they remain Subject(s): Italy FARINATA DEGLI UBERTI TO CONQUERED FLORENCE, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now shall the ploughshare over thee be passed Last Line: Live, and repent thee-spared at my command Subject(s): Florence, Italy 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 FEELING EXCITED BY SOME MILITARY MANEUVERS AT VERONA, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the lesson I have brought away Last Line: Our common human feelings not forget! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Soldiers; Verona, Italy FIESOLE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say not that arno's vale is fair Last Line: From off thy spirit-haunted hill! Subject(s): Italy; Italians FIGS, by JOSEPH RANALLO Poem Source First Line: D.H. Lawrence has said Last Line: Who nurture, tend and feed them Subject(s): Italy; Poetry And Poets; Women FILIPPO BALDINUCCI ON THE PRIVILEGE OF BURIAL, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, boy, we must not'- so began Last Line: "o lord, how long? How long, o lord?" Subject(s): Funerals; Italy; Jews; Burials; Italians; Judaism FINAL EXAMINATION, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: He's lucky %he's a young partisan who has been captured, not by Last Line: Sixteen hours later, he hangs himself Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii FIRE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air is dizzy with swallows Subject(s): Italy; Sex; Italians FIRE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air is dizzy with swallows Last Line: As though it were filled with doves Subject(s): Italy; Sex FIRENZE, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The women have all gone %to italy. The men Last Line: Why they were left behind Subject(s): Italy; Love; Man-woman Relationships FIRST NEWS FROM VILLAFRANCA, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, peace, peace, do you say? Last Line: And god's face -- waiting, after all! Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Peace FLORENCE, by BART BAXTER Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I wake up, and the morning lies Last Line: But letting her step forward into space Subject(s): Art And Artists; Italy; Love FLORENCE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brightness of the world, o thou once free Subject(s): Florence, Italy FLORENCE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow river and the violet hills Subject(s): Florence, Italy FLORENCE, SELS., by SAMUEL ROGERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Florence, Italy FLORENCE, THE PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA, by CLIFTON SNIDER Poem Source First Line: Here is the spot where savonarola Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Savonarola, Girolamo (1452-1498) FLORENTINE MAY, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still, still is the night; still as the pause after pain Last Line: Only the night can know. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Night; Bedtime FOR THE ALBUM OF THE DUCHESS DE GUICHE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Children! While childhood lasts, one day Last Line: Than all her brightest arms have won. Subject(s): Children; France; Italy; Childhood; Italians FORMER FRANCISCAN VISITS ASSISI, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Begin on the level, on the plain Last Line: Through husbandry and parenthood Subject(s): Italy FRA GIACOMO, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, fra giacamo / too late! Last Line: And the monks say mass for your mistress' soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Italy; Tragedy; Italians FRA LIPPO LIPPI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am poor brother lippo, by your leave Last Line: Don't fear me! There's the gray beginning zooks! Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Guidi, Tommaso (1401-1428); Lippi, Fra Lippo (1406-1469); Paintings & Painters FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 1, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nona domenica garnaro sits in the sun Last Line: Both of her thumbs, and she look down at it Subject(s): Italy; Italians FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 1, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nona domenica garnaro sits in the sun Last Line: Both of her thumbs, and she look down at it Subject(s): Italy FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 2, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day I went to look at the mediterranean Last Line: And I saw there was no practice in the sea Subject(s): Italy; Mediterranean Sea FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 3, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man-face gathered on the eyes of a child Last Line: A gargoyle might stare down at running water Subject(s): Italy FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 4, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would never believe to watch this man Last Line: Through all of europe and the island-south %the kingdoms and their kings were told about Subject(s): Italy FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 5, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What the roman sun says to the romans Last Line: I have said to you in all the tongues of sleep Subject(s): Italy FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 6, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains quiver like a low flame Last Line: All but these repetitions of the air Subject(s): Italy FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 7. NAPLES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw at a table of the bombed cafe Last Line: Changed into flies and drew a cloud about him Subject(s): Flies; Naples, Italy; Ruins FRANCESCA OF RIMINI (INFERNO -- CANTO 5), by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The land where I was born sits by the seas Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Italy; Italians FRANCESCA OF RIMINI (INFERNO -- CANTO 5), by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The land where I was born sits by the seas Last Line: And fell down even as a dead body falls Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Italy FRATER AVE ATQUE VALE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Row us out from desenzano, to your sirmione row Last Line: Sweet catullus's all-but-island, olive-silvery sirmio! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Death; Garda, Lake, Italy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips FREEDOM FOR ITALY: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is the freeman whom the truth makes free Last Line: Perhaps not now, but when and how he will! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Freedom; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy; Patriotism; Popes; Social Protest; Liberty; Italians; Papacy FROM ASSISI, by HELEN J. SANBORN Poem Source First Line: Thou art a holy poem, sweet umbrian plain Subject(s): Italy FROM BACCHUS IN TUSCANY, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This well of a goblet, so round and so long Last Line: Could tell it, for all the tongues in his mouth Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Florence, Italy FROM ELEGY ON THE BURYING PLACE CALLED CAMPO SANTO, by WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Shall th' unfeeling austrian's stern commands Last Line: Who teach their subjects to despise the dead! Subject(s): Florence, Italy FROM MY WINDOW (TREMEZZO - LAGO DI COMO), by RUTH SHEPARD PHELPS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our villa garden, first. All green Last Line: Accept my basketful of grass? Subject(s): Lake Como, Italy FROM OVER-SEA, by SOPHIE JEWETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In italy how comes the spring? Last Line: In italy. Alternate Author Name(s): Burroughs, Ellen Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Italians; Journeys; Trips FROM PERUGIA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tall, sallow guardsmen their horsetails have spread Last Line: For the sin unforgiven is freedom for man Subject(s): Freedom; Perugia, Italy; Pius Ix, Pope (1792-1878); Liberty FROM SOUTHERN MEMORIES, by GEORGE ARTHUR GREENE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O city fragrant with sweet memories Last Line: Touched by the morning ray Alternate Author Name(s): Greene, G. A. Subject(s): Florence, 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 FROM THE CAMPAGNA OF FLORENCE, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nearer we hail Last Line: In darkness, and with dangers compassed round %and solitude Subject(s): Florence, Italy FROM THE LAUREL OF LIBERTY, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Source First Line: O sweet firenze! What are all thy stores Last Line: And gain your gratitude, and win your love! Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Florence, Italy FROM VALLOMBROSA, by WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Source First Line: Here the traveler elate Last Line: Calm'd in the still abode of peace Subject(s): Florence, Italy GALILEO, by JAN CONN Poem Source First Line: In florence I stood on a narrow cobblestone street Last Line: Florence, I, like galileo, heard, or imagined I heard, %them sing Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Galileo (1564-1642) GENOA, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And marble terraces in many a flight Subject(s): Genoa, Italy GENOA, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am where snowy mountains round me shine Subject(s): Genoa, Italy GENOA, by WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Gently, as roses die, the day declines Subject(s): Genoa, Italy GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O epic-famed, god-haunted central sea Last Line: Where lovers first behold thy form in pilgrimage to thee. Subject(s): Genoa, Italy; Mediterranean Sea GENOA MIA!, by PASTORINI Poem Text First Line: If thus thy fallen grandeur I behold Last Line: "hail! Though in ruins, thou wert never in chains!" Subject(s): Genoa, Italy GENOA WOMAN, by DINO CAMPANA Poem Source First Line: You brought me a little seaweed Last Line: And how light it is in your hands Subject(s): Genoa, Italy; Women GHAZELES: 3. WRITTEN AT AMALFI, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the mid-may sun, that, rayless and peacefully gleaming Last Line: Bound in the world's dead sleep -- dried up by its treacherous seeming. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Italy; Italians GHOST OF TINTORETTO'S DAUGHTER, by RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: When you returned from venice you had changed Last Line: Where the dead are not the dead Subject(s): Tintoretto [jacobo Robusti] (1518-1594); Venice, Italy GIFT FOR A BELIEVER; FOR FLAVIO CONSTANTINI, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is friday, a usual day / in italy, and you wait Subject(s): Italy; Italians GIFT FOR A BELIEVER; FOR FLAVIO CONSTANTINI, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is friday, a usual day %in italy, and you wait Last Line: What the roots crave, rain Subject(s): Italy GIORGIONE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bellini %giorgione Last Line: That I have slain you with will god forgive Subject(s): Beauty; Love; Plays And Playwrights; Venice, Italy; Women GIOVANNI FRANCHI, by MINA LOY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The threewomen who all walked Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Wit & Humor GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 1. IN AN ITALIAN HILL TOWN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I missed the uses of my mother tongue Last Line: The universal language of a smile! Subject(s): Beauty; Italy; Lips; Smiles; Italians GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 2. THE CLOISTER GARDEN AT CERTOSA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a place monastic, set above Last Line: Throws back the sun and tolls the tranquil hours. Subject(s): Certosa De Pavia, Italy; Gardens & Gardening GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 4. FRA ANGELICO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They called him angel brother, for his smile Last Line: Floats like a presence his so pure renown. Subject(s): Angels; Art & Artists; Florence, Italy; Jesus Christ; Soul GLOTTO'S TOWER, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many lives, made beautiful and sweet Last Line: But wanting still the glory of the spire. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Florence, Italy GOING IN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are going in the water for the rest of the day Last Line: So bad being here, alive and wet all over and you along. Subject(s): Exchange Students; Travel; Venice, Italy; Foreign Exchange Programs; Journeys; Trips GOLDONI, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goldoni - good, gay, sunniest of souls Last Line: Venice, and we who love her, all love thee! Subject(s): Goldoni, Carlo (1707-1793); Venice, Italy GONDOLA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tilts the gondola lightly over the wave like a cradle Subject(s): Gondolas And Gondoliers; Italy GRANDFATHER'S TALE, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Start with what's in the blood. Old blood Last Line: Listening to that whisper Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii GRAVE IN THE BUSENTO, by AUGUST PLATEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By cosenza, songs of wail at midnight wake busento's shore Alternate Author Name(s): Maximilian, Karl August Georg; Platten Hallermund, Graf Von Subject(s): 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 GUIDARELLO GUIDARELLI; RAVENNA WARRIOR (1502), by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Share our grief when mine is dumb. Subject(s): Death; Lombardo, Tullio (1455-1532); Ravenna, Italy; Sculpture & Sculptors; Soldiers; Dead, The HEADGEAR, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: We're on our way to italy Last Line: My headgear advertising irish stout Subject(s): Italy HERE IN THE NORTH I CHASE AN OLD DESPAIR, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A velvet violet within the shoal, %abd the high vineyard lies like purple fern Subject(s): Despair; Italy HERE IS MUSIC: DEDICATION TO G.V.S., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: O, vedi napoli,' (so the italians say Last Line: "e poi muori!" Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Naples, Italy; Singing & Singers; Travel; Journeys; Trips 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 HILL, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In italy, where this sort of thing can occur Last Line: I stood before it for hours in wintertime Subject(s): Italy 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 HOME TO SIRMIO, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sirmio, that art the very eye Last Line: Rejoice; and every smile of home awake! Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): Homeward Bound Subject(s): Homecoming; Sirmione, 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 HOTEL PARADISO E COMMERCIALE, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another hill town: / another dry cinzano in the sun Subject(s): Italy; Italians HOTEL PARADISO E COMMERCIALE, by JOHN MALCOLM BRINNIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another hill town: %another dry cinzano in the sun Last Line: A million ordinary mornings, %and pardon this one Subject(s): Italy HOW DUKE VALENTINE CONTRIVED, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Duke valentine had been in lombardy with the king Last Line: They were strangled in the same manner Subject(s): Italy; Murder; Italians HOW DUKE VALENTINE CONTRIVED, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Duke valentine had been in lombardy with the king Last Line: They were strangled in the same manner Subject(s): Italy HUNGER, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: The bay as smooth as aspic. Hulks Last Line: Gazing out through clean, cracked glass Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii I CRY ALOUD, AND YE SHALL HEAR MY CALL, by CARLO MARIA MAGGI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Nor to wage battle or endure repose Subject(s): Italy 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 SAW THREE TEMPLES, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw three temples, dead and desolate, Last Line: And all about them blooms the flower of death! Subject(s): Cities; Paestum, Italy; Temples; Urban Life; Mosques 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 IDEAL CITY, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Set in the silence of pure perspective Last Line: With the scarlet graffiti of laughter Subject(s): Cities; Italy; Pleasure IL MAESTRO DEL VIOLINO, by EMILY FRAGOS Poem Source First Line: Somwhere behind the huge thick doors deep within the bowels Last Line: Startled by the other. We are all the same. To heaven Subject(s): Children; Music And Musicians; Venice, Italy IN A BYE-CANAL, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A swoon of noon, a trance of tide Last Line: Brave, wise, and venus' son. Subject(s): Venice, Italy IN A CHURCH OF PADUA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vaulted place where shadows flit Last Line: Where more is hid than found. Subject(s): Churches; Padua, Italy; Cathedrals IN A GONDOLA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I send me heart up to thee, all my heart Last Line: Have lived indeed, and so -- (yet one more kiss) -- can die! Variant Title(s): The Two Kisses Subject(s): Gondolas & Gondoliers; Love; Venice, Italy IN A GONDOLA, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas night in venice. Then down to the tide Last Line: The one fair woman of the world to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Gondolas & Gondoliers; Love; Venice, Italy IN A GONDOLA, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In venice! - this night so delicious, its air Subject(s): Gondolas And Gondoliers; Venice, Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tesoro %she would say with that succulent Last Line: Made her get off because I %couldn't buy her a ticket Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 1. MAY 1990, TREMEZZO, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Villa carlotta where musollini died,' Last Line: Carefully held her dress down against the wind, %against the dance of dust where all love ends Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 10. GRAND MARNIER, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: By the sidewalk begonias of bellagio Last Line: Up the narrow alley toward the top of town %where he will sleep until need drives him down Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 11. ROOM WITH A VIEW, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Behind us, one terrace up, a cherry tree Last Line: Not even our room %with a view can lift the need for cherries soon Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 12. ROWING OVER DEAD, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lake como is calm in the morning mist Last Line: They squawk %at us as if to mock our mawkish thoughts Subject(s): Italy; Lake Como, Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 13. PUB HEMINGWAY, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hydrofoil speeds us down the long lake Last Line: Instead, yellow neon flashing toward midday %lures us down the street to pub hemingway Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 14. VARENNA FERRY, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After a morning's climb up the mountain Last Line: Or the knowledge we will be crossing more %than we think to try the castello's door Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 15. LA MARANESE, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the window of my study, I look south Last Line: Standing here free, I feel my spirit rise: %four full weeks we will live in paradise Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 16. CASTLE KEEP, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Three hundred feet above the lake, the fort Last Line: Climbs that would make a sane man dizzy. We run %the trails that lead us to more than ruins Subject(s): Castles; Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 17. THE PAYING STONE, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Many a soul shipped oars, boats bumping rock Last Line: Moved him to a hard provisioning: he kept %his own men busy tunneling into the depths Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 18. SOUTH WIND, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The day we row to villa giulia Last Line: We may never touch again. Nothing to do %but go with the wind that has our boat in tow Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 19. MAFIA WEDDING, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After the long dinner and drinks, we hear Last Line: So let it stand: %a wedding, lights the confetti and horns the band Subject(s): Italy; Marriage IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 2. FRANCESCA E PAOLO, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A jewelry store with everything my wife Last Line: As the pale proprietress insists we hold %the bookmark she tells us is pure spun gold Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 20. REGATTA, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four weeks we have lived among the ghosts of gone Last Line: We will %remember this even though our minds grow still Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 3. MULE TRACK TO SUIRA, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last days in bellagio and we want to talk Last Line: A hill garden and an old woman who waves %at us for love of garlic or strange faces Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 4. TO LOPPIA, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Leaving suira and the hard climb from villa Last Line: And we know this too is lombardy, where 5the bells can ring familiar at any hour Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 5. IN THE MELZI GARDEN, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the shore of lake como, looking westward Last Line: Here in the melzi gardens %we look for light that will let our words go on Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Italy; Lake Como, Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 6. SAN MARTINO, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: San martino shines like a pocket of cinnabar Last Line: Of heights holds most of us to flat places: %flea markets, bocce courts, sailboat races Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 7. THE FORMAL GARDEN, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The little dog lies in the boxwood tomb Last Line: Garden and the villa serbelloni if %I were to end here, my tomb on the cliff Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 8. AT THE SOUTH GATE, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the south gate you turn the lock and step out Last Line: Never breaks through enough to make boat oil %on the wings of chinese geese a rainbow royal Subject(s): Italy IN ANOTHER COUNTRY: SUITE FOR VILLA SERBELLONI: 9. IN ANOTHER COUNTRY, by JIM BARNES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With my hands I scoop the deep stone bowl free Last Line: The song I make is a poor offering %beside this stone. I should bring gold and grain Subject(s): Italy IN APRIL ONCE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Guido: thou are the knightliest jailer that ever stood Last Line: Voice of the madman. Son of david, have mercy on us! Subject(s): April; Churches; Florence, Italy; God; Plays & Playwrights; Popes; Prisons & Prisoners; Cathedrals; Papacy IN BOZEN OF A SUNDAY, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: In bozen of a sunday, the air is gay with chiming Last Line: In bozen of a sunday, when the hills are glad with spring. Subject(s): Bolzano-bozen Province, Italy; Sabbath; Spring; Sunday IN FLORENCE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm tired of all the quaintness Last Line: Along fifth avenue! Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Florence, Italy IN ITALY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lillian, all I wished is won! Last Line: Lies in the heart which mine hath won! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Italy; Love; Memory; Nightmares; Italians 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 MEMORY OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back to the flower-town, side by side Last Line: His faultless fame. Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers 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 SAN LORENZO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is thine hour come to wake, o slumbering night? Last Line: But will not yet thine angel bid thee wake? Subject(s): Dawn; Heaven; Italy; Light; Sunrise; Paradise; Italians IN SAN MARCO, VENEZIA, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I for whom the world is a clear stream Last Line: All waste the very mesh I hold supreme. Subject(s): Venice, Italy IN THE CATACOMBS, by HARLAN HOUSE BALLARD Poem Text First Line: Sam brown was a fellow from way down east Last Line: "united states ahead, by thunder!" Subject(s): Catacombs; Italy; Italians IN THE NOON-DAY'S GOLDEN PLESANCE, by THEODOSIA GARROW TROLLOPE Poem Source Last Line: Better they and we lay sleeping where the darkness hath no speech! Subject(s): Florence, Italy 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 IN THE PIAZZA OF SAN PETRONIO, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dark in the winter's crystal air arise Subject(s): Italy IN THE SANCTUARY AT SARONNO, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has not luini writ in fire Last Line: Upon the sanctuary wall. Subject(s): Italy; Sanctuaries; Italians IN THE SMALL CANALS, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, felt from far, long sought, scarce found Subject(s): Italy IN TUSCANY, by ERIC MACKAY Poem Text First Line: Dost thou remember, friend of vanished days Last Line: But thou? Oblivion signs thee with a sign! Subject(s): Tuscany, Italy IN TUSCANY: IN FLORENCE, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: O tuscan days, my true, gold-hearted days Last Line: I see thee now, o little tuscan town! Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips IN TUSCANY: TUSCAN HILLS, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: My friend and I, we climbed together Last Line: Yet me she has forgot—her lover. Subject(s): Italy; Italians IN UMBRIA, by HELEN J. SANBORNE Poem Source First Line: Under a roof of twisted boughs Subject(s): Italy IN VENICE ONCE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In venice once they lived and loved Last Line: In venice where they lived and loved. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Venice, Italy INDIANAPOLIS MARKET, by ETHEL ARNOLD TILDEN Poem Text First Line: Behind heaped fruits in a jumbled row Last Line: Maria, raphael, angeline -- Subject(s): Italy; Italians INSCRIPTION FOR THE NEGLECTED COLUMN IN THE PLACE OF ST. MARK AT FLORE, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Escap'd a race, whose vanity ne'er rais'd Last Line: And like a god, shall say, let there be liberty Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Florence, Italy INTERMEZZO: VENETIAN NIGHTS: 1. VENETA MARINA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The masts rise white to the stars Last Line: Farther from me than the stars. Subject(s): Venice, Italy INTERMEZZO: VENETIAN NIGHTS: 2. AT THE DOGANA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, and the silence of the night Last Line: Came down into the day. Subject(s): Venice, Italy INTERMEZZO: VENETIAN NIGHTS: 3. ON THE ZATTERE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only to live, only to be Last Line: Happy immortally, in sleep. Subject(s): Venice, Italy INTERMEZZO; PASTORAL: 7. IN THE MEADOWS AT MANTUA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But to have lain upon the grass Last Line: The meadow-grass at mantua! Subject(s): Fields; Mantua, Italy; Pastures; Meadows; Leas INVASION, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: We began with a thing we would never see again Last Line: See again, we fought our way out of it, and into the other Variant Title(s): Red Beach, Paestu Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii ISOLA COMACINA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There sleeps beneath italian skies Last Line: May all the gods be good to thee! Subject(s): Future; Islands; Italy; Past; Italians ITALIA, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Italia! Thou art fallen, though with sheen Last Line: And smite the spoiler with the sword of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIA REDENTA; ON HEARING ITALIAN FLAG FLYING OVER TRENT & TRIESTE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Till yesterday 'twas 'italy unredeemed.' Last Line: "italia redenta." Subject(s): Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To come back from the sweet south, to the north Last Line: And the sweet name to my mouth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips ITALIAN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It would be enough Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 1, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the bright road to rome, beyond mantua Last Line: Because it is truth. Your polars spin in the sun Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 1, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the bright road to rome, beyond mantua Last Line: Because it is truth. Your poplars spin in the sun Subject(s): Italy ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 2, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whir of a pigeon's wings outside a wooden window Last Line: Of a book and stands at the end of perspective, waiting for me Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 2, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whir of a pigeon's wings outside a wooden window Last Line: Of a book, and stands at the end of perspective, waiting for me Subject(s): Italy ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this landscape of vines and hills you carried a theme Last Line: Into a coin that the fog's fingers rub together Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 3, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this landscape of vines and hills you carried a theme Last Line: Into a coin that the fog's fingers rub together Subject(s): Italy ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 4, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The foam out on the sparkling strait muttering montale Last Line: To dissolve in a fiction greater than our lives, the sea, the un Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 4, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The foam out on the sparkling strait muttering montale Last Line: To dissolve in a fiction greater than our lives, the sea, the sun Subject(s): Italy ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 5, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My colonnade of cedars between whose arches the ocean Last Line: That your speck widens with elation, a dot that soars Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 5, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My colonnade of cedars between whose arches the ocean Last Line: That your speck widens with elation, a dot that soars Subject(s): Italy ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 6, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now evening after evening after evening Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN ECLOGUES: 6, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now evening after evening after evening Last Line: Your voice, through the dark reeds of lines that shine with life Subject(s): Italy ITALIAN PICTURES: COSTA MAGIC, by MINA LOY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her father / indisposed to her marriage Last Line: Whose hair down covers her thighs Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN PICTURES: JULY IN VALLOMBROSA, by MINA LOY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old lady sitting still Last Line: Of head-waiters Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN PICTURES: THE COSTA SAN GIORGIO, by MINA LOY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We english make a tepid blot Last Line: Onto the middle of the street Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN QUATRAIN: HAIRDRESSING, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There on the littered streets she sits, and chats with Last Line: Plucks vermin from its curls; and sells her oranges to me. Me. Subject(s): Italy; Retail Trade; Italians; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers ITALIAN QUATRAIN: LEMON TREES, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trees are ripe with yellow birds, I vow Last Line: Dripping and warm from out your golden throats! Subject(s): Italy; Lemons; Italians; Lemon Trees ITALIAN QUATRAIN: NAPLES - PALAZZO, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text 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 ITALIAN QUATRAIN: OLIVE TREE, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight is always on its leaves Last Line: Lovers who chance to wander there. Subject(s): Italy; Olive Trees And Olives; Italians ITALIAN QUATRAIN: SABBATH MORNING, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond my room's rose-covered convent wall Last Line: I'll swear that satyr's stone mouth grinned at me! Subject(s): Italy; Sabbath; Italians; Sunday ITALIAN RHAPSODY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear italy! The sound of thy soft name Last Line: Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above. Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALIAN SONG, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear is my little native vale Last Line: Shall bind me to my native vale! Variant Title(s): My Native Vale Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Voices from the mountains speak Last Line: To the gulfs that steep her shore. Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALY, by VINCENZO DA FILICAJA Poem Text First Line: Italia, o italia, upon whom Last Line: Victress or vanquished, doomed to slavery! Alternate Author Name(s): Filicaia, Vincenzo Da Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Liberty; Italians ITALY, by VINCENZO DA FILICAJA Poem Text First Line: Italia! Oh italia! Thou who hast Last Line: Victor or vanquished, thou the slave of friend or foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Filicaia, Vincenzo Da Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Liberty; Italians ITALY, by PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Poem Source First Line: O barbarian's pupil-eye encircled Subject(s): Italy ITALY, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enchanted italy! Fair, sunny land! Last Line: And see thy treasures, glorious italy. Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALY, by EDWARD COATE PINKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Know'st thou the land which lovers ought to choose? Last Line: To build our happy hearth in blooming italy. Alternate Author Name(s): Pinkney, Edward Coote Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALY, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O italy, how beautiful thou art! Subject(s): Italy; Poetry And Poets ITALY, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sea I heard the groans Last Line: And sow its ghastly fields with flowers! Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Liberty; Italians ITALY - 1915, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tear from thy brow the olive wreath! Last Line: Of england's strumpet, italy! Subject(s): Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War ITALY AND BRITAIN, by JOSEPH ADDISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How has kind heav'n adorn'd the happy land Subject(s): Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Italy ITALY AND THE WORLD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Florence, bologna, parma, modena Last Line: And to love best shall still be, to reign unsurpassed. Subject(s): Italy; Italians ITALY IN ARMS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all my dreams by night and day Last Line: In this grim hour must wish thee well! Subject(s): World War I - Italy ITALY SWEET TOO!, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy is england! I could be content Last Line: And float with them about the summer waters. Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): England; Italy; English; Italians JACOPO RUFFINI; GENOA, 1833, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are betrayed and lost; and I am bound Last Line: God hid his face, but held him by the hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Ruffini, Jacobo (1805-1833) 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 JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within a low wall, falling away Subject(s): Jews; Cemeteries; Italy; Judaism; Graveyards; Italians JEWS' CEMETERY; LIDO OF VENICE, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYDMONDS Poem Source First Line: A tract of land swept by the salt sea-foam Subject(s): Italy JOHN MILTON; FROM EPITAPHIUM DAMONIS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, what passion for roaming lured me to traverse Last Line: Have taught their beech-trees to re-echo my name Subject(s): Florence, Italy JULIAN AND MADDALO, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I rode one evening with count maddalo Last Line: All happened -- but the cold world shall not know. Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips KING OF ARAGON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One day the king of arragon, from the old citadel Last Line: (alas! Thou woeful city!) for whom I would have died Subject(s): Absence; Alfonso V, King Of Aragon (1396-1458); Courts And Courtiers; Memory; Naples, Italy KING VICTOR EMANUEL ENTERS FLORENCE, APRIL, 1860, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King of us all, we cried to thee, cried to thee Last Line: True king of us all! Subject(s): Victor Emmanuel Ii, King Of Italy KINGDOM OF HANDS, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: As you reach into your pocket, suddenly you touch an alien hand Last Line: Like a speller, for words beginning with sounds no one has ever heard Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii L'ARICCIA, DEATH IN LIFE, by ISABELLA BLAGDEN Poem Source First Line: I gaze upon a scene of arcady Last Line: The gorgeous mask, the hollow brows of death! Subject(s): Florence, Italy LA MADONNA DELL' ACQUA, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Around her shrine no earthly blossoms blow Last Line: And of god's voice, when man's is comfortless Subject(s): Shrines; Venice, 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 LAGO DI COMO, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nothing you know is as immaculate a knowing Subject(s): Lake Como, Italy LAGO VARESE, by HENRY TAYLOR (1800-1886) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stood beside varese's lake Subject(s): Italy LAKE COMO, by WALTER MALONE Poem Source First Line: Around me rise the gray-green olive trees Subject(s): Italy LAKE COMO, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter on the mountains Last Line: Of that strange and lonely place. Subject(s): Lake Como, Italy LANDSCAPE, WITH FOOD, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: The dump runs down a wide ravine Last Line: Hip deep in flames, they eat it all Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii LASTRA A SIGNA, by SARAH D. CLARKE Poem Source First Line: She is old! She is old, our lastra! Subject(s): Italy LEGEND OF A TOMB IN FLORENCE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here he is, in marble, waiting by a tomb Last Line: And the knight and lady heavenward will go. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones LEONARDO'S LAST SUPPER AT MILAN, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come! If thy heart be pure, thy spirits calm Subject(s): Italy LETTER TO ROBERT BROWNING, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All dat I've been writing dispatches Last Line: How I'm your true friend Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Florence, Italy LIBERTY, SELS., by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Freedom; Great Britain - History; Greece; Italy; Roman Empire LIBERTY: PART 1. ANCIENT AND MODERN ITALY COMPARED, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my lamented talbot! While with thee Last Line: Aspiring, thy commands to britons bear. Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Roman Empire; Liberty; Italians LIME TREES, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: I stand in the somewhat battered plentitude Last Line: Gibbering about lime trees Subject(s): Italy LINES ON LAKE THRASYMENE, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mountains stand about the quiet lake Subject(s): Italy LINES ON LEAVING ITALY, by ADAM GOTTLOB OEHLENSCHLAGER Poem Source First Line: Once more among the old gigantic hills Variant Title(s): Ascent Of The Alp Subject(s): Italy LINES WRITTEN NEAR SHELLEY'S HOUSE, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And here he paced! These glimmering pathways Subject(s): Italy LINES WRITTEN ON THE ROOF OF MILAN CATHEDRAL, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The long, long night of utter loneliness Subject(s): Italy LITANY OF NATIONS, SELS., by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Italy LITERATURE AND POETRY, by MAX JACOB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was near lorient, the sun shone brightly Last Line: The meandering paths left dry by the sea had made him think of the streets of naples Subject(s): Literature; Naples, Italy LOMBARD STREET, by BERT ALMON Poem Source First Line: I am charmed by lombard street, the ancient center of the italian money Last Line: The golden serpent ourobouros swalling his own tail Subject(s): Banks And Banking; Capitalism; Lombardy, Italy; Money LONGFELLOW'S VISIT TO VENICE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near the celebrated lido where the breeze is fresh and free Last Line: Are melodiously mingled in my warm new england breast Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Venice, Italy LOOKING BACK, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why murmur, why look back, my soul? Subject(s): Italy LOVE AMONG THE SAINTS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At assisi is the church Last Line: Hangs upon that instant's choice! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Assisi, Italy; Saints LOVE IN ITALY, SELS., by JOHN HALL INGHAM Poem Source First Line: The air was heavy with the scent of flowers Subject(s): Italy LOVE IN NOVEMBER, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Love in november is when phantoms wait Last Line: A few words at the wind and laugh Subject(s): Italy LOVE WITHOUT WINGS: SONG 6, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me, do you remember still Last Line: Resolved, abandoned by us two! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Italians 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 MAGGIORE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, rest awhile upon thy glistening oars Last Line: And let us drift and dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Italy; Nightmares; Italians 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 MANTUA, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Above in beauteous italy lies a lake Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Italy MARENGHI, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let those who pine in pride or in revenge Last Line: The thought of his own country ... Subject(s): Italy; Italians MARINO FALIERO, DOGE OF VENICE; AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not the messenger returned? Last Line: The gory head rolls down the giant steps! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Conspiracy; Falier, Marino (1274-1355); Venice, Italy MARKET AT PORTA CAPUANA, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Comes out of the ground, comes out Last Line: Hair, and very pure, egg-noodle, stars Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii MASQUE OF VENICE, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not a stain %in the sun-brimmed sapphire Subject(s): Italy MEDITATIVE FRAGMENTS, ON VENICE: 1, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walk in st. Marks, the time, the ample space Last Line: Went out a traveller, and returned a queen? Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Venice, Italy MEDITATIVE FRAGMENTS, ON VENICE: 2. THE GOLDEN BOOK, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The golden book / is not unwritten in, and stands unmoved Last Line: As thy sweet countenance to gaze upon. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Venice, Italy MEDITATIVE FRAGMENTS, ON VENICE: 3. LIDO, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to greet the full may-moon Last Line: Than lido and its graves. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Lido (island), Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips MEDITATIVE FRAGMENTS, ON VENICE: 4, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh poverty! Thou bitter-hearted fiend! Last Line: Its separate beauty in one dark long curve. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Venice, Italy MEDITATIVE FRAGMENTS, ON VENICE: 5, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: City, whose name did once adorn the world Last Line: And in the music of the outer sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Venice, Italy MEDITERRANEAN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I passed you many times as I went down the cliff walk Last Line: May be: best thing: endure: face front: get back on the line Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Greece; Islands; Italy; Mediterranean Sea; Greeks; Italians 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 MEMORIALS OF A TOUR: IN LOMBARDY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, where his difficult way that old man wins Last Line: To bliss unbounded, glory without end. Subject(s): Lombardy, Italy MEMORIES OF CAPRI (PUNTA TRAGARA), by LOUISE KIDDER SPARROW Poem Text First Line: A far white line where sea and heavens meet Last Line: The dreamland isle that lies beyond the sea! Subject(s): Capri, Italy; Islands MENTANA: FIRST ANNIVERSARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the time when the stars are grey Last Line: "give all men heart to be free." Subject(s): Italy; Nations; Night; Stars; Italians; Bedtime 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 NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midsummer night, without a moon, but the stars. Last Line: I am ashamed, I have betrayed my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): August; Italy; Moon; Night; Stars; Italians; Bedtime 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 MILAN, by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Milan with plenty and wealth o'erflows Subject(s): Italy MILAN CATHEDRAL, by HENRY GLASSFORD BELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O peerless church of old milan Subject(s): Italy MILAN CATHEDRAL, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through light green haze, a rolling sea Last Line: Except to signify the host of heaven. Subject(s): Churches; Milan, Italy; Cathedrals MILAN, AUGUST 1943, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: In vain, search in dust Last Line: Leave them on the earth of their own homes: %the city is dead, dead Subject(s): Milan, Italy; World War Ii MILAN; DA VINCI'S CHRIST, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day long, year after year Last Line: Their loving benedicite. Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Milan, Italy; Paintings And Painters MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: 13, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now florence fills her lap with buds of may Last Line: "of sun and rain, of smile and sorrow born." Subject(s): Death - Children; Florence, Italy; Death - Babies MIMMA BELLA; IN MEMORY OF A LITTLE LIFE: SONNET, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis march; and on the hills that stretch away Last Line: Intone in march, as did their antique sires. Subject(s): Death - Children; Florence, Italy; Death - Babies MIXED SALAD, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Parmesan of dandruff Last Line: Every inflexible principle Subject(s): Italy MODENA STANDS UPON A SPACIOUS PLAIN, by ALESSANDRO TASSONI Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Italy MONTE CAVO, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, king of beech-trees on this mountain-crest Subject(s): Italy MONTEPULCIANO WINE, by FRANCESCO REDI Poem Source First Line: Hearken, all earth! Subject(s): Italy MOONLIGHT IN ITALY, by ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE DODGE KINNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's not a breath the dewy leaves to stir Last Line: The sense of worship into uttered praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Stedman, Edmund Burke, Mrs. Subject(s): Italy; Moon; Italians MOONLIGHT ON THE RIVIERA, by RICHARD LEANDER Poem Source First Line: Buoyant, exulting Subject(s): Italy MOTETTI: 1, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know this: I must lose you again and cannot Last Line: For the sign I have lost, the only pledge %I had from you. %now hell is certain Variant Title(s): The Motets: Subject(s): Genoa, Italy MOTHER AND POET; TURIN, AFTER THE NEWS FROM GAETA, 1861, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! One of them shot by the sea in the east Last Line: Let none look at me! Subject(s): Death - Children; Italy; Mothers; Savio, Laura; Death - Babies; Italians MOUTH OF THE ARNO, by GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO Poem Source First Line: The mouth of woman was never to me Last Line: Enjoy enchantment, %our single soul: worship here Subject(s): Arno River, Italy; Landscape; Rivers MUSIC IN VENICE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dismiss the instruments that for your pleasure Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Venice, Italy MUSIC IN VENICE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dismiss the instruments that for your pleasure Last Line: Even to envy, sharpening a knife, %his interest Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Venice, Italy MY LADY, HOW COMES IT ABOUT - WHAT ALL CAN SEE, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And yet how far from a fool in loving you Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Italy NAPLES, by WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Delightful city of parthenope Subject(s): Italy NAPLES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red tiles, yellow stucco, layer on layer of windows Subject(s): Naples, Italy NAPLES, by AMY LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red tiles, yellow stucco, layer on layer of windows Subject(s): Naples, Italy NAPLES AGAIN, by ARTHUR FREEMAN Poem Source First Line: The hills yet hills, and still the yellow town Last Line: May set its simpler meaning over mine Subject(s): Naples, Italy NAPLES AND VENICE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overlooking, overhearing, naples and her subject bay Last Line: Naples! Dumb as death thy voices, listen we however near. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Venice, Italy NAPLES AT SUNSET, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Naples! Where virgil found his last repose Last Line: Like love's fond lips to beauty's witching cheek. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Naples, Italy NAPLES IN THE TIME OF BOMBA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind a span whose cheery pace Last Line: Ringing down the curtain on the rose. Subject(s): Ferdinand Ii, King Of Two Sicilies; Naples, Italy NAPLES, 1590, by HELEN YETTA WALKER Poem Text First Line: The same old scene of the same old play Last Line: Over her silken knees. Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Naples, Italy; Romance; Youth; Male-female Relations NAPLES; A SONG OF THE SYREN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still is the syren warbling on thy shore Last Line: "murmuring -- thou art not free!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Sirens (mythology) NAPLES; INSCRIBED TO ROBERT C. WATERSON, OF BOSTON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I give thee joy! - I know to thee Last Line: "writing the grave with flowers: ""arisen again!" Subject(s): Graves; Naples, Italy; Tombs; Tombstones NAPOLEON III IN ITALY, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Emperor, emperor! / from the centre to the shore Last Line: Evermore. Subject(s): Italy; Napoleon Iii (1808-1873); Regalia; Italians; Royal Perogatives NAPOLI AGAIN, by RICHARD HUGO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long before I hear it, naples bright Last Line: I only came %to see you living and the fountains run Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii NARCISSUS: A POMPEIIAN BRONZE, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful boy, like a faun here in loneliness roaming, who art thou? Last Line: Stranger, I tremble,—anew, thou a narcissus shalt be. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Narcissus (mythology); Pompeii, Italy; Statues NATIONAL AIR: ITALY, by ? OLIVIERI Poem Source First Line: To arms, men, to arms, men Subject(s): National Song - Italy NATURE'S REMORSES; ROME, 1861, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her soul was bred by a throne, and fed Last Line: Sunshine from heaven, and the eyes of a child. Subject(s): Italy; Remorse; Despair; Italians NEAPOLITAN, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Naples seems mostly mountains and mules Last Line: But to fancy them flies! Subject(s): Asses & Mules; Mountains; Naples, Italy; Mules; Hills; Downs (great Britain) 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 NEIGHBORHOOD CLAIRVOYANT, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Your body should respond to therapy Last Line: Remember to receive death with true hospitality Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii 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 NIGHT IN ASSISI, by MAURA STANTON Poem Source First Line: I rubbed my eyes. How strange I felt. It was Last Line: And topple towers where bright bells had pealed Subject(s): Assisi, Italy NIGHT IN VENICE, by LOUISE KIDDER SPARROW Poem Text First Line: Night in venice! On the grand canal Last Line: Nestles a blight -- how chill has grown the air! Subject(s): Night; Venice, Italy; Bedtime NIGHT-SCENE IN GENOA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In genoa, when the sunset gave Last Line: Bend with celestial joy to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Genoa, Italy NIGHTINGALES, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: A gray and greasy smoke screen Last Line: Resounds - resounds - resounds - resounds Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii NIKOLAUS MARDRUZ TO HIS MASTER FERDINAND, COUNT OF TYROL, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: My lord recalls ferrara? How walls Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Ferrara, Italy; Poetry & Poets NIKOLAUS MARDRUZ TO HIS MASTER FERDINAND, COUNT OF TYROL, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lord recalls ferrara? How walls Last Line: To ferrara as to the world Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Ferrara, Italy; Poetry And Poets NINIE, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Text First Line: Perfumes, flowers, love, dancing, music Last Line: P.S. Don quixote is an example. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Dadaism; Italy; Mythology - Classical; Italians NOCTURNE, by LEON PAUL FARGUE Poem Source First Line: A long arm embossed with gold slides from the tree tops Last Line: God will hold out the happiness he promised us once Subject(s): Literature; Naples, Italy NON DOLET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It does not hurt. She looked along the knife Last Line: And thou not die, how should it hurt indeed? Subject(s): Italy; Love; Murder; Italians NOON: ROMAGNA, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would never believe to watch this man Last Line: The kingdoms and their kings are told about Subject(s): Italy; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He throws a fifty-lire piece in the fountain Last Line: Rain through the roof of a pagan temple on this gentle soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy stood in the burning house. Set it up Last Line: Never allow words to occur. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green green grass of home is owned by another now Last Line: And I'm not allowed on the property for my ounce of sentiment. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Second sighting: / she was up on the roof when I went up to check Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake. A dab of numero uno in the smoking Last Line: And their eyes are pink with hopeless energy. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the montana whorehouse the madam yells 'burma' Last Line: He thinks. I'll miss supper and fishing the evening hatch. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Start with seven for luck Last Line: Feet deep. Nothing need be forgiven. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The announcement said get to the high ground Last Line: Their teethhold on the stomach. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For five days the moon was red from the dust storm Last Line: Established a white bladder-shaped object in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grease density Last Line: The midwest barren without good shellfish Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Third sighting: / is she the black-crowned night heron Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He became humbler with his journalism, bought a porkpie hat Last Line: His left ear as his only visible rebellion. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crudities: / implausible as this brilliantly cold Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the great shattering cold waves Last Line: It and would not trade it for all your princely heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snail is beautiful, nearly persian. Do we dwell in Last Line: But delicately with her lips. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phenomenon. Agonies. Mostly unshared. Dear friends Last Line: Place a kitten near a candle when bored. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a dream I saw spicer's body hanging from a hundred feet Last Line: Spread and are they peaceful on the bottom? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are these horses less wonderful for my daughter having to shovel Last Line: Horse eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oooooooo, he said to himself. That night of wonderment Last Line: Afterward didn't seem to care. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More mad dogs and fewer streetlights, mr. Nixon. That advice Last Line: To throw stones at streetlights. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And my puppy is over her kidney infection, diagnosed Last Line: Let her wounds become my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First sighting: she was up in the apple tree with one leg hanging Last Line: I thought her bare feet were cloven a bit too obviously. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At four in the morning my body bumped against the ceiling Last Line: Rather, earth lost to me as she doesn't know me well. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember her cheers? How you loved the cheerleader far beyond Last Line: No longer love the cheerleader. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sang I'm talking through a hat that isn't mine. It's Last Line: Small, treated themselves like garbage. Sanctus detrius redivivus Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I felt myself floating toward the shadow of the dreamer I once Last Line: In our dreams. There were poems before books on earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stewardess said you're a poet? Last Line: Around all day humming got a date with a daydream. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This fat & sexless life Last Line: This fat & sexless life. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mourned portia's unfair operation. Then the horse Last Line: Happened to be rex. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We must not think of our country as a ten-trillion-dolllar Last Line: Blowjob no matter how the idea tempts us. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians NORTH AMERICAN IMAGE CYCLE, SELECTION, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Overheard story in montana bar: she thought when she lost Last Line: With ambivalent affection for guns & ewes, mares & drudgery. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Anger; Italy; Wishes; Italians OAK LEAVES COME QUITE CHEAP, by A. A. IMBERMAN Poem Text First Line: Here lies giovanni Last Line: Sic transit gloria mundi. Subject(s): Death; Italy; Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dead, The; Italians; Dictators ODE ON VENICE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh venice! Venice! When thy marble walls Last Line: One freeman more, america, to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): The Race With Death Subject(s): Courage; Freedom; Venice, Italy; Valor; Bravery; Liberty ODE TO APATHY, SELS., by BERTIE GREATHEED Poem Source First Line: O! Would the sons of italy arise Last Line: Which apennines divide, and alps and seas surround Subject(s): Apathy; Florence, Italy ODE TO JOHN MILTON, AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, by ANTONIO FRANCINI Poem Source First Line: Up with me, clio, through the air Last Line: In silent wonder do her better part Subject(s): Florence, Italy ODE TO NAPLES, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood within the city disinterred Last Line: This city of thy worship, ever free! Subject(s): Naples, Italy ODE TO THE WEST WIND, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O wild west wind, thou breath of autumn's being Last Line: If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Variant Title(s): Ode To The West Wind: I;the West Wind Subject(s): Autumn; Florence, Italy; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Theology; Ocean ODE TO WINTER, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Source First Line: O welcome to my soul congenial pow'r! Last Line: The deluge of thy tears Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Florence, Italy OLD CLOTHES, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: A couple hundred weeks, a couple kilos more or less Last Line: You're warm, you're moving through the streets. It's dinner time Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii OLD OLIVES AT BORDIGHERA, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the valley's slope in the olive grove Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Bordighera, Italy OLD PICTURES IN FLORENCE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morn when first it thunders in march Last Line: And florence together, the first am I! Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337) OLD WOMEN OF MAGIONE, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: The old women of magione hover round me like angels Last Line: Rustling of old women's wings in the sky between the stars and the streetlights Subject(s): Italy ON A FLYLEAF OF RIME - GASPARA STAMPA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the light of canaletto Last Line: Are the two halves of my heart Subject(s): Love; Venice, Italy ON A GONDOLA IN VENICE, by NAOMI FLOWE FAUST Poem Source First Line: It did not matter when the song Last Line: Tapping from the very core %to rekindle that flame of remembrance Subject(s): Gondolas And Gondoliers; Venice, Italy ON A SCENE IN TUSCANY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What good were it to dim the pleasure-glow Last Line: Believe him not, believe him not, my child. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Tuscany, Italy ON A TORSO OF CUPID, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peach trees and judas trees Last Line: Thou has a heart to feel. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Cupid; Italy; Statues; Eros; Italians ON CROSSING THE SIMPLON, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the bleak pass huge alps their shadows throw Last Line: Pure as yon snow that cleaves the vault of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Alps; Italy; Mountains; Simplon (mountain), Switzerland; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain) 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 IBYCUS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rhegium, whose feet trinacria's straitened sea Subject(s): Italy ON LEAVING ITALY, FOR THE SUMMER, ON ACCOUNT OF HEALTH, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou summer-land! That dost put on the sun Last Line: Or make him one! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Italy; Italians 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 MILAN CATHEDRAL, by ROBERT HAVEN SCHAUFFLER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shrouded in grey Variant Title(s): From The Spire Of Milan Cathedra Subject(s): Italy ON NOT DYING IN VENICE, by BARBARA F. LEFCOWITZ Poem Source First Line: I should have known better Last Line: Or succumb to dead fires' acrid fumes Subject(s): Death; Venice, Italy 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 PROPOSED PRESENTATION OF GUNS TO KING OF SARDINIA, ITALIAN LIBERTY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No gold - no jewels bright Last Line: Be god to aid thee nigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): England; Europe; Freedom; Italy; Nations; English; Liberty; Italians 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 SANNAZAR'S BEING HONOURED WITH SIX HUNDRED DUCATS BY CLARISSIMI, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a blithe prince exchang'd five hundred crowns Last Line: All wrath and storms do end in calms and praise. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Venice, Italy ON THE CAMPAGNA, by ELIZABETH DREW (BARSTOW) STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop on the appian way Last Line: Deep as the shadow of rome! Alternate Author Name(s): Stoddard, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Campagna Di Roma, 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 EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once did she hold the gorgeous east in fee Last Line: Of that which once was great, is passed away. Variant Title(s): Venice Subject(s): Freedom; Venice, Italy; Liberty ON THE FLY-LEAF OF DANTE'S VITA NUOVA, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was a tall stern exile once of old Last Line: Oft led him into heaven for an hour Subject(s): Florence, Italy ON THE ITALIAN COLOURS BEING REPLACED ON THE PALAZZO VECCHIO, by ISABELLA BLAGDEN Poem Source First Line: O'er the old tower, like bright flame curled Last Line: Witness and pledge to italy Subject(s): Florence, Italy ON THE ITALIAN FRONT, MCMXVI, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will die cheering, if I needs must die Last Line: "my sons' love sanctifies my soil for aye!'" Subject(s): World War I - Italy ON THE LIDO, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On her still lake the city sits Subject(s): Italy ON THE MAD-HOUSE AT VENICE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour aright the philosophic thought Last Line: Frees her sad-centred thoughts, and gives them pleasant range. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Venice, Italy; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums ON THE MEDUSA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky Last Line: Gazing in death on heaven from those wet rocks. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Florence, Italy; Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings & Painters ON THE PIAVE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We called 'em wop and dago, and often Last Line: And we'll know italians better in the long years yet to come! Subject(s): Immigrants; Italy; World War I; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration; Italians; First World War ON THE PICTURE OF AN ANGEL BY FRA ANGELICO, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Press each on each, sweet wings, and roof me in Last Line: To rest me in a fairer italy. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Angelico, Fra (1400-1455); Angels; Italy; Paintings & Painters; Guido Di Pietro; Italians 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 ON THE SLAUGHTER OF BROTHERS BANDIERI, BETRAYED TO THE KING OF NAPLES, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Borne on white horses, which the god of thrace Last Line: Till the same sands their viler blood imbue. Subject(s): Bandiera, Attilio (1810-1844); Bandiera, Emilio (1819-1844); Italy - Revolutions ORA DI PARTIRE, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: You have reached a halfway house Last Line: Of a carriage in an almost empty train Subject(s): Italy ORVIETO, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train stopped. We stood at a taxi stand Last Line: Hills, fields, a train, not ours, glinting toward rome Subject(s): Italy OUR ITALIAN JOURNEY, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of our first stay in italy Last Line: Of which, though past, our speech is ever rife. Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips OUR SLIDES OF VENICE, by RANDOLPH THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are the final day, tired, our eyes Last Line: Brush against the stones while we dress Subject(s): Vacation; Venice, Italy 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 PADUA, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Antenor, from the midst of grecian hosts Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Italy PADUA, THOU WITHIN THOSE WALLS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Italy PAESTUM, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There, down salerno's bay Subject(s): Italy PAESTUM, by JOHN READE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, far on the horizon's verge reclined Subject(s): Italy PAINTINGS IN THE MUSEUMS OF MUNICH AND VENICE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cranach's lot and his daughter Last Line: Seen in this beautiful picture Subject(s): Cranach, Lucas (1472-1553); Geerten Tot Sint Jans (1465-1495); Munich, Germany; Museums; Paintings And Painters; Venice, Italy PALM SUNDAY: NAPLES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because it is the day of palms Last Line: Carry a palm for me. Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Palm Sunday PAMPINEA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying by the summer sea Last Line: I slept and dreamed of italy! Subject(s): Italy; Beauty; Italians PANDORA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Italy, loved of the sun Last Line: And girt with the gold of lost lordship thy brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Italy; Pandora (mythology); Italians PARENT OF ROMANS, MEN' AND GODS' DELIGHT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Civilization; Rome, Italy PARISINA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the hour when from the boughs Last Line: And never more a leaf reveals. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Ferrara, Italy; Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy PARTING LOVERS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love thee, love thee, giulio! Last Line: Nor this... This heart-break. Go! Subject(s): Italy; Patriotism; Italians PATRON SAINT (1), by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Conquerors, I am alive in this relinquary! I am the owner of Last Line: I am the harbinger of what can never not be Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii PATRON SAINT (2), by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Conquerors, you have heard my voice! You have shown me Last Line: Ahead, eternity. You will not be missed Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii PAURA NON E NELLA CARITA, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The place, a tuscan churchyard, and the time Last Line: And smile to hear the fatal words she saith! Subject(s): Autumn; Cemeteries; Death; Messages & Messengers; Seasons; Tuscany, Italy; Fall; Graveyards; Dead, The PAUSILIPPO (IN THE TIME OF BOMBA), by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hill there is that laves its feet Last Line: In pity -- futile as the ore! Subject(s): Italy; Italians PERUGIA, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: For the sake of a weathered gray city set high on a hill Last Line: And perchance even then. Subject(s): Perugia, Italy PESCHIERA, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What voice did on my spirit fall Last Line: Than never to have fought at all.' Subject(s): Croatia; Italy; War; Italians 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 PICTURE OF A MAN WITH A BROKEN HEART, by ROBERT VISCUSI Poem Source First Line: In english we say padua; in italian, padova Last Line: Thank you for healing me,' they say. 'thank you for finding my glasses' Subject(s): Faith; Italy; Portraits; Saints PICTURES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pallid nun by serge made doubly pale Last Line: Touches the cheek, and fairer skies float down. Subject(s): Italy; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Italians; Songs PISA'S LEANING TOWER, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tower in tiers of architraves Last Line: A would-be suicide! Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Pisa, Italy PISA: THE DUOMO, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, this is like a song writ long ago Last Line: Won from the boundaries of day and night. Subject(s): Italy; Life; Pisa, Italy; Time; Italians PO, by LUCAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The po, that, rushing with uncommon force Alternate Author Name(s): Marcus Annaeus Lucanus Subject(s): Italy POLITICAL CHOAS IN ITALY, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Yonder there behold! A soul that stationed Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Italy POMPEII, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The giant slept, and pigmies at his feet Subject(s): Italy POMPEII, by JOHN READE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Know'st thou yon stream Subject(s): Italy POMPEII, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the evening of the day of god Last Line: Shall be a hymn of gratitude for thee. Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy POMPEII, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They lived, pompeiians Last Line: Enslaved their liquids well; pornography %became their monument Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy POMPEII: A.D. 79, by EMILY FRAGOS Poem Source First Line: The day before, as there is always that Last Line: Sliding under our feet at a little past noon Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Volcanoes PONTORMO: 'ENTOMBMENT,' CAPPONI CHAPEL, FLORENCE, 1525-28, by DEVON MILLER-DUGGAN Poem Source First Line: These hunched, uncringing souls Last Line: The grief they have to hold Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Religion POSEIDON AND AMPHITRITE, VILLA STABIA, POMPEII, by CEES NOOTEBOOM Poem Source First Line: That infatuated moment Last Line: Of a detail lacking majesty Subject(s): Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Pompeii, Italy; Travel 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 PRIZE-WINNING POETS ON SABBATICAL, by JACK SHADOIAN Poem Source First Line: I congratulate them hope they have Last Line: Crossed or more profoundly cursed %it goes with the territory Subject(s): Italy; Poetry And Poets PROBLEM SOLVING, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a knoll above the arno he watches its muscular washes work Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Arno River, Italy; Brothers & Sisters 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 QUALITY FISH, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: In the country of powder-paint-yellow Last Line: From yarmouth up to scarborough Subject(s): Italy 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 QUIA NOMINOR LEO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What part is left thee, lion? Ravenous beast Last Line: Thy god shall give thee back for birthright rome? Subject(s): Italy; Italians RAVENNA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet hour of twilight! In the solitude Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Italy RAVENNA, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis morn, and never did a lovelier day Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Variant Title(s): Morning At Ravenn Subject(s): Italy RAVENNA, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A year ago I breathed the italian air Last Line: Where dante sleeps, where byron loved to dwell. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Ravenna, Italy RAWDON BROWN, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sighed rawdon brown: 'yes, I'm departing, toni! Last Line: Browning, next week, may find himself quite brown! Subject(s): Venice, 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 REGGIO, by JOHN READE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And shouldst thou doubt the visible prophecies Subject(s): Italy REVERIE: FOREIGN MOVIE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: There is something innocent and indecent about a foreigner Last Line: And shook with public laughter Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Variant Title(s): Reverie: Foreign Movie In A Foreign Country [for Reg Gibbons Subject(s): Italy; Motion Pictures; Strangers; Tourists REVOLUTIONARY, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at them standing there in authority Last Line: See if I am not lord of the dark and moving hosts %before I die Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Florence, Italy RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE?, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No daydream: my invitation to the voyage Last Line: Grudge the midnight's easy gift Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Travel; Italy; Journeys; Trips; Italians RINTRAH ROARS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father-in-law writes from umbria (where peasants eat songbirds Subject(s): Comedy; Johnson, Lyndon Baines (1908-1973); Umbria, Italy RIVIERA DI PONENTE, by JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On this lovely western shore, where no tempests Alternate Author Name(s): C., J. F. Subject(s): Italy ROAD TO BENEVENTO, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: The road to benevento seems to flow Last Line: Of ages more dark and cold, and longer night Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii ROAD TO FIRENZE, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Source First Line: High hour draws near, the hour is meet Subject(s): Florence, Italy ROGATION DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the orchards, under Subject(s): Farm Life; Italy; Agriculture; Farmers; Italians ROGATION DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the orchards, under Last Line: To go nowhere at all Subject(s): Farm Life; Italy 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 SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ripe hours there be that do anticipate Last Line: To see as man may see when time is not. Subject(s): Italy; Roman Empire; Italians 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 GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rome, on thine air I cast my soul adrift Subject(s): Italy ROME, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He brought our savior to the western side Subject(s): Italy ROME, by BESSIE RAYNER PARKES Poem Source First Line: If ever I in rome should dwell Subject(s): Italy ROME, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Evander then, rome's earliest founder, spoke Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Italy 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 ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A high and naked square, a lonely palm Subject(s): 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 ROSA MUNDI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright petals of evening Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations ROSA MUNDI, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright petals of evening Last Line: As though it were filled with doves Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Love; Man-woman Relationships ROSE COLORED GLASSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years, and it's still on the Last Line: The next number is ciao, ciao, bambina Subject(s): Radio; Singing & Singers; Venice, Italy ROSE COLORED GLASSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years, and it's still on the Last Line: The next number is 'ciao, ciao, bambina' Subject(s): Radio; Singing And Singers; Venice, 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 RUINS OF CORNELIA'S HOUSE, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I turn from ruins of imperial power Subject(s): Italy SABINE FARM, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I often wished I had a farm Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Italy SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your nurse could only speak italian, Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Sailing Home From Rapallo Subject(s): Italy; Mothers; Death; Sea Voyages; Cemeteries; Fathers; Italians; Dead, The; Graveyards SAINT CHRISTOPHER, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the narrow venetian street Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Christopher, Christoper (3d Century); Italy 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 SAN MARCO MUSEUM, FLORENCE, by SISTER MARIS STELLA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: San marco was as quiet on that day Last Line: Were lit but for the spirit's eye and ear. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Museums; Art Gallerys SAN MINIATO, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, I have climbed the mountainside Last Line: Show to the world my sin and shame. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Italy; Italians SAN TERENZO, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-april seemed like some november day Last Line: Flew forth, like shelley's spirit, to the sea! Subject(s): Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Italians SANTA CROCE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In santa croce's holy precincts lie Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Italy SANTA MARIA DEL FIORE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Summits and valed, sl;im cypresses and pines Subject(s): Florence, Italy SANTA MARIA NOVELLA, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or enter, in your florence wanderings Subject(s): Italy SANTA MARIA NOVELLA, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: This lonely angular man in railway stations Last Line: And the catch of the station clock flips over Subject(s): Commuters; Florence, Italy; Railroads; Tourists; Travel 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 SAVONA; VERSPERS ON THE SHORES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Religion's purest presence was not found Subject(s): 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 SCALINATA, by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In rome there is a glorios flight of stone Subject(s): Italy SCHOOL VIDEO, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Conor sits at his desk with three other children, searching Last Line: Will they end? At least it is clear that in this classroom they were happy Subject(s): Italy 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 SCULPTURES BY DIMITRI HADZI, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This metal blooms in the dark of rome's / day light. Of how many deaths Last Line: Their brightness is dark with it Subject(s): Italy; Massacres; World War Ii - Atrocities; Italians SCULPTURES BY DIMITRI HADZI, by DAVID FERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This metal blooms in the dark of rome's %day light. Of how many deaths Last Line: Their brightness is dark with it Subject(s): Italy; Massacres; World War Ii - Atrocities SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter / swallow / each calling Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing & Writers; Italians; Motion Pictures - Play Writing; Journeys; Trips SEQUEL TO A SHARP TURN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter %swallow %each calling Last Line: But speak of more cheerful imaginings Subject(s): Film (photography); Italy; Screen Writing; Sea Voyages; Travel; Writing And Writers SERENADE, by ROBERT MERRY Poem Source First Line: When o'er the tuscan plain wild winter threw Last Line: My eyes are never closed Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Florence, Italy SHELLEY'S SKYLARK, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere afield here something lies Last Line: Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme. Subject(s): Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Italians SIBYL'S CAVE AT CUMA, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cumean sibyl! From thy sultry cave Subject(s): Italy SIENA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside this northern summer's fold Last Line: Up to god's side. Subject(s): Heaven; Italy; Jesus Christ; Summer; Paradise; Italians SIGNS OF THE TIMES, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mighty passions, surging, heave the depth of life's great ocean Last Line: Advance! And be your watchword ever -- god for ireland! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): France; Italy; Nationalism - Ireland; Russia; Italians; Soviet Union; Russians SILVER CUP, by WILLA SIBERT CATHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In venice %under the rialto bridge, one summer morning Last Line: Who had his story, which you never told me Subject(s): Cups; Venice, Italy SKIES ITALIAN, by RUTH SHEPARD PHELPS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O woman-country!' lisa's sweet still smile Subject(s): Italy; Travel SLEEP-JOURNEY, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Between your eyelashes and eyebrows Last Line: Of an earthenware jug Subject(s): Italy SMALL LEAVETAKING, by JENNIFER MACKENZIE Poem Source First Line: By late afternoon only small things remain - Last Line: Of purple minnows through the water Subject(s): Change; Venice, Italy SOLIDARIETA ALL'ORA DI CENA, by DANUTA VIDALI Poem Source First Line: A quest'ora le zie polacche Last Line: Che in alto bolle Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Death; Dinners And Dining; Italy; Mothers SOLIDARITY AT DINNER TIME, by DANUTA VIDALI Poem Source First Line: My polish aunts Last Line: Above Subject(s): Cooking And Cooks; Death; Dinners And Dining; Italy; Mothers SOMETHING, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: There was something I was trying to put my finger on Last Line: The lazer at a checkout till had set an infinite series of ciphers in motion Subject(s): Italy SONG FOR THE NEAPOLITANS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Too long we've borne what freemen ne'er Last Line: Or die and leave it so! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Freedom; Naples, Italy; Patriotism; War; Liberty SONG OF FIESOLE, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY Poem Text First Line: Fiesole, fiesole Last Line: I left my heart with you! Subject(s): Florence, Italy SONG TO THE ITALIAN PATRIOTS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Sons of those whose glorious name Last Line: Then on to victory! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Patriotism; Victory; Liberty; Italians SONG-FLOWER AND POPPY: 2. AT ASSISI, by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before st. Francis' burg I wait Last Line: Hoar workman of the lord? Subject(s): Assisi, Italy; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Saints SONG; FROM THE ITALIAN OF GIUSEPPE MARIA BUONDELMONTE, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love often in the comely mien Last Line: He's still himself, and still is love Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Subject(s): Florence, Italy 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 SONNET OCCASIONED BY A VISIT TO TORZELO, A VENETIAN ISLE, by WILLIAM STEWART ROSE Poem Text First Line: On a december's morn, nor dim nor dark Last Line: Warning his little world in language strange. Subject(s): Venice, Italy SONNET ON APPROACHING ITALY, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I reached the alps, the soul within me burned Last Line: I wept to see the land so very fair. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Italy; Italians SONNET ON THE SUBMISSION OF THE NEAPOLITANS, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Dastardly slaves! And is it - can it be Last Line: And weep that thou producest things like these. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Freedom; Naples, Italy; Tyranny & Tyrants; Liberty; Dictators SONNET PREFIXED TO 'THE COMMONWEALTH & GOVERNMENT OF VENICE', by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The antique babel, empress of the east Last Line: Edm. Spencer. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Venice, Italy SONNET TO ITALY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For thee, ausonia! Nature's bounteous hand Last Line: To albion's coast and ever-varying skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Italy; Italians SONNET WRITTEN IN HOLY WEEK AT GENOA, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered in scoglietto's far retreat Last Line: The cross, the crown, the soldiers, and the spear. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Catholics; Genoa, Italy; Roman Catholics; Catholicism SONNET: 18. ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Avenge, o lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Last Line: Early may fly the babylonian woe. Variant Title(s): Sonnet: 15 Subject(s): Heroism; Italy; Martyrs; War; Heroes; Heroines; Italians SONNET: TO ITALY, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: When on bleak jura's hills I stood, and saw Last Line: And stand in majesty and freedom forth! Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Italy; Italians SONNET: TO L.T. IN FLORENCE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You by the arno shape your marble dream Last Line: For one poor cowslip or anemone. Subject(s): Absence; Florence, Italy; Homesickness; Separation; Isolation SONNETS FOR PICTURES: A VENETIAN PASTORAL (BY GIOGIONE), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water, for anguish of the solstice - nay Last Line: Life touching lips with immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): Sonnets For Pictures: 4. A Venetian Pastoral, By Giorgione Subject(s): Art & Artists; Giorgione Da Castelfranco (1477-1511); Paintings & Painters; Venice, Italy SORDELLO: BOOK 1, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who will, may hear sordello's story told Last Line: The veritable business of mankind. Subject(s): Italy; Troubadours; Italians; Minnesingers 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 SORRENTO, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrento! Bright star! Land Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Italy SORRENTO, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Midway betwixt the present and the past Subject(s): Italy SORRENTO, by WILLIAM WETMORE STORY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight, thick with cloud Subject(s): Italy SORRENTO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gods are gone, the temples over-thrown Last Line: And bind the myrtle buds to crown a purer venus. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Nature; Past; Roman Empire; Sorrento, Italy SOSPIRO DI ROMA, SELS., by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening; Italy SOTTOPORTICO SAN ZACCARIA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rains on the roofs Last Line: In the female smell of venice Subject(s): Love Affairs; Venice, Italy SOTTOPORTICO SAN ZACCARIA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It rains on the roofs Last Line: In the female smell of venice Subject(s): Love Affairs; Venice, Italy SOUL-DRIFT, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I let my soul drift with the thistledown Last Line: But as the heir of all the universe. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Italy; Italians SOUTH OF THE ALPS, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Signorina angeli, veteran of vogue Last Line: Tell me - why doesn't anything last? Subject(s): Beauty; Italy; Transience SPRING AT THE VILLA CONTI, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of time and nature still the fairest daughter Last Line: "this is not heaven, but italy." Subject(s): Fountains; Italy; Italians SPRING IN RAVENNA, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is up, and 'tis a morn of may Last Line: And chase the whistling brine, and swirl into the bay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Ravenna, Italy; Spring SPRING ON THE ALBAN HILLS, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the campagna it is dim warm weather Last Line: That in the silence makes thy sweet eyes wild. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Italy; Italians SPRING UNDER THE CYPRESSES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cypresses, here in the stony Last Line: Sings here alone, and is lost to the bushes. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Italy; Spring; Italians SPUMA DAL MARE (ON THE LATIN COAST), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flower o' the wave Last Line: The many-coloured. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Birds; Italy; Peacocks; Sea; Italians; Ocean ST. AMBROSE'S, by GIUSEPPE GIUSTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your excellency, though you snarl and growl Last Line: Who rooted there firm as a fence-post stood %twirling his swagger-stick of hazel wood Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions; Landscape; Patriotism ST. ANDREW'S HEAD, by KEVIN PILKINGTON Poem Source First Line: In the tenth century a.D. Last Line: His eyes closed to the world Subject(s): History; Italy; Tourists; Travel ST. JOHN AND THE FAUN, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O blest imagination! Last Line: Which is immortal art. Subject(s): Amalfi, Italy; Imagination; St. John, Henry (1678-1751); Fancy; Viscount Bolingbroke ST. JOHN LATERAN, by BESSIE RAYNER PARKES Poem Source First Line: Of temples built by mortal hands Subject(s): Italy STANZAS TO THE PO, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: River, that rollest by the ancient walls Last Line: [or, and then, at least, my heart can ne'er be moved.] Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Po River, Italy STANZAS TO W.R. TURNER, ON HIS VIEW OF LACO MAGGIORE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turner, thy pencil brings to mind a day Subject(s): Italy STANZAS WRITTEN IN PASSING THE AMBRACIAN GULF, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through cloudless skies, in silvery sheen Last Line: But would not lose thee for a world. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Italy STEPS OF ARA COELI, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A ladder, realler, dearer Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Italy STONK, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Your stonk is your amreican way of winning your war Last Line: Your stonk being your american way of doing war Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii SUMMER STORM IN SICILY, by LAURA ANNA STORTONI Poem Source First Line: After the summer storm Last Line: Hiding %in the palace of the wind Subject(s): Italy; Rain; Storms SUMMING UP ITALY; INSCRIBED TO INTELLIGENT PUBLICS OUT OF IT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Observe how well it will be at last Last Line: The virtue of slandering the doers. Subject(s): Italy; Italians SUNDAY NIGHT - PIAZZA SAN MARCO, by DAN SPERANDEO Poem Source First Line: There's only one, yet Last Line: Rest serene saint mark's bones %protect your people Subject(s): Venice, Italy SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watch any cool northern girl Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Women; Italy; Sex; Italians SUNSET ON THE CAMPAGNA, by HELEN J. SANBORN Poem Source First Line: The pines have no voice this ineffable hour Subject(s): Italy SUPER FLUMINA BABYLONIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the waters of babylon we sat down and wept Last Line: And men see light. Subject(s): Babylon; Freedom; Italy; Rivers; Liberty; Italians SURFACES AND MASKS; 1, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who must remain Last Line: Suspended on a circle of pearls Subject(s): Venice, Italy SURFACES AND MASKS; 12, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The theme of carnevale is a secret Subject(s): Carnivals; Venice, Italy SURFACES AND MASKS; 2, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sit silently in the dark Last Line: William dean howells swim / in the grand canal Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Memory; Venice, Italy SURFACES AND MASKS; 3, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She takes him into “the rape of europa” Last Line: The only play picasso ever wrote Subject(s): Venice, Italy; Music & Musicians; Writing & Writers; Togetherness; Italians SURFACES AND MASKS; 30, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They cut down the last tree Last Line: Kept behind stone walls? Subject(s): Venice, Italy; Deforestation SURFACES AND MASKS; 4, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He gave the fascisti salute Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Fascism & Fascists; Italy; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Italians SURFACES AND MASKS; 6, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing in me goes out Last Line: Were never aimed at me Subject(s): Venice, Italy SURFACES AND MASKS; 7, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too many gondolas Last Line: What venice earned Subject(s): Venice, Italy SWITZERLAND AND ITALY, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the switzer's varied land Last Line: Unscathed, for art is not of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Alps; Italy; Mountains; Switzerland; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Swiss TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE THIRD DAY: CHARLEMAGNE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Olger the dane and desiderio, / king of the lombards Last Line: Fell as one dead at desiderio's feet. Subject(s): Charlemagne (742-814); Italy; Italians TARENTUM (TARANTO), by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And next tarentum's bay Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Italy 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 TASSO'S DUNGEON, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How might the goaded sufferer in his cell Subject(s): Italy TEMPIO DI VENERE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A marble ruin nigh forgotten Last Line: So sturdy, arch, and gay! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Marble; Naples, Italy; Ruins 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 BROKEN LUTE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She dwelt in proud venetian halls Last Line: Woe for the broken heart and lute! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Lutes; Venice, Italy 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 CALL TO THE RESERVISTS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was the message under the sea Last Line: The swarthy reservist from over the sea. Subject(s): Army - Italy; World War I; First World War THE CENCI; A TRAGEDY: ACTS 1-3, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That matter of the murder is hushed up Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Despair; Gothic Drama; Hate; Italy; Italians THE CENCI; A TRAGEDY: ACTS 4-5, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She comes not, yet I left her even now Last Line: We are quite ready. Well -- 't is very well. Subject(s): Despair; Hate; Italy; Italians 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 CONVENT IN '45, by MARIA LUISA SPAZIANI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time of white violets; and on the slopes Subject(s): Italy - World War Ii THE CORNUCOPIA, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grapes grow up a difficult and Last Line: Drifting at night in the sea. Subject(s): Italy; Nature; Italians THE CROWNED REPUBLIC, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive us, italy, who have loved thee long Last Line: Without, within -- that dare the gates of freedom close. Subject(s): Italy; Italians THE CUCKOO AT LAVERNA, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: List - 'twas the cuckoo. - o with what delight Last Line: And folds thy pinions up in blest repose. Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Italy; Italians THE DAISY; WRITTEN AT EDINBURGH, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love, what hours were thine and mine Last Line: My fancy fled to the south again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Italy; Love; Monaco; Italians THE DANCE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You remember down at florence our cascine Last Line: Cried exultant in great wonder and free gratitude. Subject(s): Florence, 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 DECAY OF VENICE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glowing pageant of my story lies Last Line: When died for many a year man's noblest hopes. Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Venice, Italy; Liberty; Italians THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN: 3, SELECTION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zoroaster long ago / said poetry presents us Subject(s): Dragons; Italy; Unicorns; Italians THE DUOMO, by MARIA LUISA SPAZIANI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I lived in milan the duomo was thirty years younger Subject(s): Milan, Italy; Time THE DYING IMPROVISATORE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of my land Last Line: Sweet friends! Bright land! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Italy; Dead, The; Parting; Italians THE DYING OLD YEAR: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Avaunt, away! Dread shapes of hate and fear Last Line: Then passed away, with one low, moaning sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Holidays; Italy; Law & Lawyers; New Year; Social Protest; Treason & Traitors; Dead, The; Italians; Attorneys THE ENGLISHMAN IN ITALY, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fortu, fortu, my beloved one Last Line: In black from the skies! Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE EVIL EYE, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nona poured oil on the water and saw the eye Last Line: Though I had one already and the other came Subject(s): Italy; Superstition; Italians 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 FIREWORKS; FROM THE CASTLE OF ST. ANGELO, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Play on, play on, I share your gorgeous glee Last Line: He waits his end in still and slow decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Fireworks; Italy; Italians THE FORCED RECRUIT AT SOLFERINO, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ranks of the austrian you found Last Line: Have glory, -- let him have a tear. Subject(s): Army - Austria; Italy; Italians 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 GRAVE OF KEATS, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rid of the world's injustice, and his pain Last Line: As isabella did her basil-tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians THE GRAVE OF KEATS; THE PROTESTANT CEMETERY AT ROME, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair little city Last Line: Strong wine of fruit mature, whose flowers alone we know. Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians THE GRAVE OF SHELLEY, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed Last Line: Against the rocks of some wave-shattered steep. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians; Journeys; Trips 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 HEART OF VENICE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Here is no song that comes unsought Last Line: If this were immortality? Subject(s): Venice, Italy 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 HILLS OF CARRARA, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst a vale of springing leaves Last Line: Responsive to the charm of those who -touch it well! Subject(s): Carrara, Italy; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE HOUR OF AWE, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the five-domed wonder Last Line: For you and the waiting wind. Subject(s): Italy; Italians THE JEWS' CEMETERY ON THE LIDO, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tract of land swept by the salt seafoam Last Line: Wept by no mourner but the moaning wave. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Jews; Lido (island), Italy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Judaism 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 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 MAREMMA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are bright scenes beneath italian skies Last Line: For thee, who thus didst pass in brightness to the tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Italy; Jealousy; Dead, The; Italians THE MIGRATION OF CITIES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We love paris Last Line: Ports where the red flag has secretly flown for years. Subject(s): Chicago; Cities; Communism; Florence, Italy; Paris, France; Socialism; Urban Life THE MIRROR OF DIANA, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She floats into the quiet skies Last Line: Elusive in the flux of things. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Italy; Lakes; Italians; Pools; Ponds THE MODERN ROMANS, by CHARLES FREDERICK JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Under the slanting light of the yellow sun of october Last Line: "turning the fenian down once more to be 'bossed by a dago.'" Subject(s): Italy; Italians 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 NEAPOLITANS TO MOZART, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Strange musical wizard! The spells of thine art Last Line: Men have entertained angels ere now unawares! Subject(s): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Music & Musicians; Naples, Italy THE NEW PROSERPINE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where, countless as the stars of night Last Line: There lay the memory of hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Italy; Italians THE NOVEL, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For two days I've been crying Last Line: So astonished was he by her beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Books; Grief; Italy; Novels & Novelists; Story-telling; Travel; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians; 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 OLD BRIDGE AT FLORENCE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Taddeo gaddi built me. I am old Last Line: Hath leaned on me, I glory in myself. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Art & Artists; Bridges; Florence, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE ONLY DOLL IN THE VALLEY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up near the sources of po Last Line: For the girls in every valley. Subject(s): Girls; Italy; Italians THE PASSING OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At pisa, where the cypress-spires alway Last Line: "beyond the flaming rampire of the world." Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Aging; Courage; Death; Melancholy; Pisa, Italy; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Dejection THE PIAZZA OF ST. MARK AT MIDNIGHT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed is the music, hushed the hum of voices Last Line: Hammer the midnight on their brazen bell there! Subject(s): Venice, Italy THE PILLAR OF TRAJAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where towers are crushed, and unforbidden weeds Last Line: Becomes with all her years a vision of the mind. Subject(s): Italy; Italians THE PINE FOREST OF THE CASCINE NEAR PISA (1ST DRAFT OF 'TO JANE'), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest, best and brightest Last Line: Than calm in waters seen. Subject(s): Pine Trees; Pisa, Italy; Trees 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 IN ITALY; IMITATED AFTER RENATO RINALDI'S 'IL GIROVAGO', by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A ragged sweet little fellow Last Line: "death comes, with a grin, to see." Subject(s): Country Life; Italy; Poetry & Poets; Italians 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 PRAYER OF THE ROMANS, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not done, but near its ending Last Line: One republic in italy free! Subject(s): Freedom; Italy; Liberty; Italians THE PRISONER'S RELEASE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in the east the wan moon climbs Last Line: Now I come — I come to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Inquisition; Prisoners Of War; Venice, Italy; Youth; Dead, The THE PRISONERS OF NAPLES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been thinking of the victims bound Last Line: In love which is of thee, and which indeed thou art! Subject(s): Freedom; Naples, Italy; Liberty 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 PROPHECY OF DANTE: DEDICATION, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady! If for the cold and cloudy clime Last Line: Ah! To what effort would it not persuade? Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Italy; Italians THE RAVENNA PINE FOREST, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A heavy spot the forest looks at first Last Line: Or startled gull up-screaming toward the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh Subject(s): Forests; Pine Trees; Ravenna, Italy; Trees; Woods THE RESTORATION OF THE WORKS OF ART TO ITALY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Land of departed fame! Whose classic plains Last Line: "faint effluence of ""the day-spring from on high!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Art & Artists; Italy; Italians 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 SONG OF THE STANDARD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands Last Line: Take to thy bosom the nations, and there shall the world come to rest. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Italy; Women; Italians 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 SPRINGS OF FONTANA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The springs of fontana well high on the mountain Last Line: Springs of fontana! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Italy; Springs (water); Italians THE STATUE AND THE BUST, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a palace in florence, the world knows well Last Line: How strive you? De te, fabula! Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Statues THE STATUE OF LORENZO DE MEDICI, by JAMES ERNEST NESMITH Poem Text First Line: Mark me how still I am! The sound of feet Last Line: And he, not I, is here immortalized. Subject(s): Italy; Medici, Lorenzo De (1449-1492); Italians THE STORM, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The italian police stopped us today Subject(s): Italy; Storms; Automobiles; Italians; Cars 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 SWORD OF CASTRUCCIO CASTRACANI, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When victor emanuel the king / went down to his lucca that day Last Line: With a hero to head us, -- our king! Subject(s): Castruccio Castracani, Antelmineli; Italy; Victor Emmanuel Ii, King Of Italy; Italians THE SYBIL'S TEMPLE, by HUMPHRY DAVY Poem Text First Line: Thy faith, o roman! Was a natural faith Last Line: The voice of inspiration well might come! Subject(s): Tivoli, Italy 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 TRAITORS OF CAPORETTO; A LEGEND OF TODAY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whose feet are these that plod all day Last Line: Shall perish as they fall. Subject(s): Army - Italy; Caporetto, Battle Of (1917); Italy; Treason & Traitors; World War I; Italians; First World War 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 UMBRIAN PLAIN, by VIDA DUTTON SCUDDER Poem Text First Line: Thou art a holy poem, sweet umbrian plain Last Line: Still holds his voice for those who understand. Subject(s): Umbria, Italy; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College THE VENETIAN SERENADE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When along the light ripple the far serenade Last Line: Sciar--and to you!' Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Gondolas & Gondoliers; Venice, Italy THE VENETIAN VESPERS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's merciful is not knowing where you are Last Line: Who was never even at one time a wise child Subject(s): Venice, Italy THE VIRGIN OF SAINT MARK'S; THE SACRISTAN'S STORY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hid in a secret recess Last Line: Keeps watch forevermore! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Churches; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Venice, Italy; Women - Bible; Cathedrals; Virgin Mary 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 WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A CHAIN TO WEAR, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away! Away! The dream was vain Last Line: Hush! ...Do not speak. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A FANCY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet were life, - this life, if we Last Line: O'er the happy grass to find me! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A LOVE LETTER, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love, - my chosen, - but not mine! Last Line: Thine own, and only thine, my love, forever. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: A VISION, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hour of hesperus! The hour when feeling Last Line: And to the distance sighingly entreat her? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: CHANGE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is unkind, unkind! Last Line: "I shall not see her to-night." Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Loss Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: CONDEMNED ONES, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Above thy child I saw thee bend Last Line: That hope to help us was not given! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: COUNT RINALDO RINALDI, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a dark-purple, moonlighted midnight Last Line: The eyes of mnemosyne there. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: DESIRE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The golden planet of the occident Last Line: Go forth, across the world, and find my love! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: EROS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder that I loved her thus, that night? Last Line: Her mystic name. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: FATALITY, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen her, with her golden hair Last Line: And its wild white stars that love us. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: INDIAN LOVE SONG, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My body sleeps: my heart awakes Last Line: Through mist and darkness moves toward thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: MORNING AND MEETING, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One yellow star, the largest and the last Last Line: That, through a rapture, I had toucht her hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: NEWS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: News, news, news, my gossiping friends! Last Line: T is a woman that reigns in hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Gossip; Italy; Travel; Women; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ON THE SEA, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come! Breathe thou soft, or blow thou bold Last Line: Of elephanta, the red. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Sea; Travel; Italians; Ocean; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ONCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A falling star that shot across Last Line: "but ever love is love forever!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love - Nature Of; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ROOT AND LEAF, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love that deep within me lies Last Line: Its rooted growth beneath. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: SILENCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words of fire, and words of scorn Last Line: Guard empty chamber, moveless door. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Silence; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: SINCE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words like to these were said, or dreamed Last Line: Must beat or break for. That is all. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Love; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE CLOUD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With shape to shape, all day Last Line: Of still desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Clouds; Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE LAST MESSAGE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fling the lattice open Last Line: Before the night is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE MAGIC LAND, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By woodland belt, by ocean bar Last Line: "to one sweet note, sighed ""italy!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE STORM, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both hollow and hill were as dumb as death Last Line: With the dew on its delicate sheath! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Storms; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: THE VAMPYRE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a corpse, with golden hair Last Line: From perdition made so fair? Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Corpses; Italy; Travel; Cadavers; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: VENICE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sylphs and ondines Last Line: To bury my heart -- one grave more to the many! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Venice, Italy; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: WARNINGS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beware, beware of witchery! Last Line: Cordelia! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: PROLOGUE. PART 1, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the rosy memories of the lips Last Line: And white death watching over red-lipped love. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE WATERSHED; LINES WRITTEN BETWEEN MUNICH AND VERONA, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black mountains pricked with pointed pine Last Line: I flowed to italy. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips 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 THE WOLF OF GUBBIO, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is cold Last Line: Out of the cold! Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Italy; Legends; Wolves; Italians THERE IS A POOL ON GARDA, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Garda, Lake, Italy THEREFORE, PROUD ITALY, I, BY GOD'S GRACE, by LUIGI ALAMANNI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Italy; Homecoming; Italians 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 THISTLEDOWN (SPRING ON THE CAMPAGNE), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bloweth like snow / from the grey thistles Last Line: The thistledown. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Flowers; Italy; Spring; Italians 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 THRASYMENE, by CHARLES STRONG Poem Source First Line: In this the spot where rome's eternal foe Subject(s): Italy THREE CITIES: 1. MILAN, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: Among your stones and your fogs I play Last Line: There's no respite from life %like life Subject(s): Life; Milan, Italy; Travel THREE CITIES: 3. FLORENCE, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: To embrace the poet montale Last Line: Another constellation lights another rage Subject(s): Florence, Italy THREE FACES: 2. GENOA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the same strange might of eyes, that saw Last Line: Again the same? Subject(s): Genoa, Italy; Roundels THREE FACES: 3. VENICE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark pure twilight, where the stream Last Line: Out of the dark. Subject(s): Roundels; Venice, Italy THREE VENETIAN NOCTURNES: 1. BARCAROLLE, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each blue sun-floodlit day floats through a green evening till night Last Line: She mourns her morning glory long drowned in the sea of years Subject(s): Venice, Italy THREE VENETIAN NOCTURNES: 2. LIDO GALA FIREWORKS, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rockets-released to-night rush up to rape the grapebloom sky Last Line: Black blurred with sea-water, blue Subject(s): Venice, Italy THREE VENETIAN NOCTURNES: 3. ON THE GRAND CANAL, by DAVID GASCOYNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The palaces are sombre cliffs by night Last Line: As the boat's motion swept her from my sight Subject(s): Venice, Italy TIBER, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sea was flushing in the morning's rays Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Variant Title(s): Osti Subject(s): Italy 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 TIRESIAS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is an hour before the hour of dawn Last Line: Are these dead or art thou dead, italy? Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Grief; Italy; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians TIVOLI, by JOHN READE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And where breathes nature deeper oracles Subject(s): Italy TO ---; WRITTEN AT VENICE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not only through the golden haze Last Line: Deserves a separate song. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Colors; Venice, Italy 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 CHARLES DICKENS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go then to italy; but mind Last Line: With little nelly nestling there. Subject(s): Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Italy; Travel; Italians; Journeys; Trips 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 DANTE IN RAVENNA: 1265-1915, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: There in thy marble of ravenna, - dust Last Line: Dust of ravenna,—thine is scorn indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Ravenna, Italy TO FLOWERS FROM ITALY IN WINTER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunned in the south, and here today Last Line: To tell man whence you came. Subject(s): Flowers; Italy; Italians TO FRANCIS HARE; BURIED AT PALERMO, ON INSURRECTION OF SICILY & NAPLES, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hare! Thou art sleeping where the sun strikes hot Last Line: Nor higher than the living stand the dead. Subject(s): Italy - Revolutions TO ITALY, by MORAY DALTON Poem Text First Line: Thou art the world's desired, the golden fleece Last Line: Whose hearts are thine, belovèd italy. Subject(s): World War I - Italy TO ITALY, by VINCENZO DA FILICAJA Poem Text First Line: Italy! Italy! Thou who 'rt doomed to wear / the fatal gift of beauty Last Line: Victor or vanquished, slave forever more. Alternate Author Name(s): Filicaia, Vincenzo Da Subject(s): Italy; Italians TO ITALY, by GIOVANNI GUIDICCIONI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From ignominious sleep, where age on age Last Line: While self-wrought chains thine infamy proclaim Subject(s): Freedom; Italy TO ITALY, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of noble minds! How shall we pay Last Line: Whose forward spirit debtors every race! Subject(s): Army - Italy; World War I; First World War TO ITALY, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O italy. I see the lonely towers Subject(s): Italy TO ITALY, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O italy, my country! I behold Subject(s): Italy TO ITALY, by CORINNE ROOSEVELT ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair land of dear desire Last Line: What all our souls would dream! Subject(s): Italy; Patriotism; Perugino [pietro Vannucci] (1450-1523); Italians TO ITALY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the sunrise to the night Last Line: Be those hopes and fears on thee. Subject(s): Italy; Italians TO JOSEPH MAZZINI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take, since you bade it should bear Last Line: First name of the world's names, rome Subject(s): Italy; Love; Politics & Government; Italians TO MY CHILD CARLINO, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carlino! What art thou about, my boy? Last Line: Redder than coral round calypso's cave. Subject(s): Children; Florence, Italy; Landor, Charles Savage (1825-1917); Childhood TO MY DAUGHTER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By that dejected city arno runs Last Line: O could I sleep and wake again in may! Subject(s): Daughters; Florence, Italy TO MY MUSE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vast parnassus never knew thy face Last Line: And watch the world's disaster with a smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Tuscany, Italy TO NAPLES, by HERBERT B. MALLALIEU Poem Source First Line: All day the coast of africa was seen Subject(s): Naples, Italy; War 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 SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO, ON THE MASSACRE AT MILAN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saint, beyond all in glory who surround Last Line: God will with wrath, look down. Subject(s): Borromeo, Saint Carlo (1538-1584); Milan, Italy; Travel; Journeys; Trips TO SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI; OCTOBER 4, 1943, by MARY WINTER WERE Poem Text First Line: You walked the fields of italy Last Line: Your own incomparable land. Subject(s): Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Italy - World War Ii; Saints TO THE APENNINES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your peaks are beautiful, ye apennines! Last Line: Pine silently for the redeeming hour. Subject(s): Apennines (mountains); Italy; Mountains; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain) 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 TO THE DUKE ALPHONSO, ASKING TO BE LIBERATED, by TORQUATO TASSO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A new ixion upon fortune's wheel Subject(s): Italy TO THE FIFTEENTH OF PIZZALE LORETTO, by SALVATORE QUASIMODO Poem Source First Line: Esposito, fiorani, fogagnolo Last Line: Death that is life can cast no shadow Subject(s): Italy; World War Ii TO THE FOUNTAIN AT FRASCATI, by JOHN HANMER Poem Source First Line: Not by aldobrandini's watery show Subject(s): Italy TO THE RIVER, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Fair river! In thy bright, clear flow Last Line: Of her soul-searching eyes. Subject(s): Po River, Italy TO VENICE, by VASILE ALEKSANDRI Poem Source First Line: To the much desired venice Subject(s): Italy TO VERONA, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verona! Thy tall gardens stand erect Subject(s): Italy TOMB OF GALILEO, by WALTER MALONE Poem Source First Line: I have grown weary of the idle show Subject(s): Italy TONIGHT THE HEART-SHAPED LEAVES, by JAN HELLER LEVI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've smoked thirteen cigarettes today: I'm breathless Subject(s): Italy; Family Life; Italians; Relatives TORCELLO, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Short sail from venice sand torcello lies Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Italy TRANSLATION FROM DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO 33, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thro' a small crevice opening, what scant light Last Line: The fourth, what sorrow could not, famine did Subject(s): Florence, Italy TRANSLATION FROM DANTE'S INFERNO, CANTO 33, by THOMAS MEDWIN Poem Source First Line: Now had the loophole of that dungeon, still Last Line: Famine of grief can get the mastery Subject(s): Florence, Italy TRAVELLING FROM TORINO, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: My father was famous for five days %a few weeks after his death Last Line: A day like this in spring %when italy is bathed in sunlight Variant Title(s): Travelling From Torino, 22 March 199 Subject(s): Italy TRIESTE - CIAO TO ITALY, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe we should've fallen in love Last Line: This sad deservesa nothing / but a stony memory Subject(s): Italy; Disappointment; Grief; Farewell; Love – Complaints; Trieste TROILUS AND CRESSIDA [CRISEYDE]: BOOK 1. CANTUS TROILI, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If no love is, o god, what fele I so? Subject(s): Desire; Florence, Italy; Love TROILUS AND CRESSIDA [CRISEYDE]: BOOK 1. CANTUS TROILI, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If no love is, o god, what fele I so? Last Line: For hete of cold, for cold of hete, I deye Subject(s): Desire; Florence, Italy; Love TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 1, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother bore me 'neath the streaming moon Last Line: The roses I behold are wan as they! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Solitude; Tuscany, Italy; Loneliness TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 10, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a siren in the middle sea Last Line: Since all the world is savage wildernesses. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Sirens (mythology); Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 11, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me a story, dear, that is not true Last Line: I faint and die to feel the thrill thereof. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love; Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 12, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us forget we loved each other much Last Line: Without to-morrow, without yesterday. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 13, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far away and in the middle sea Last Line: Will you not take me on to heaven with you? Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love; Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 14, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flower of the cypress, little bitter bloom Last Line: Tight round my breast to kill the heart beneath. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Love - Complaints; Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 15, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, love, I cannot die, I cannot go Last Line: While I shall sleep; while I -- while I -- forget! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 16, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come away sorrow, sorrow come away Last Line: Nor, when I slumber, wake me up again. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Grief; Tuscany, Italy; Sorrow; Sadness TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 2, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What good is there, ah me, what good in love? Last Line: With mine own hands drag down the burial stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 3, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love you more than any words can say Last Line: And still you do not hear the passing-bell. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 4, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love, o love, come over the sea, come here Last Line: So shall my soul be happy anywhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love; Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 5, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sowed the field of love with many seeds Last Line: So let me sleep at last and sleep for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 6, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am so pale to-night, so mere a ghost Last Line: Whom you will tremble, dear, and start to see! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love; Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 7, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead and I am quite forgot Last Line: But in a cranny of your soul to live. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 8, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me, you well might wait a little while Last Line: And I forgot, but now remember well. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 9, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love me to-day and think not on to-morrow! Last Line: Which we will plait in wreaths -- when I am dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN OLIVES: RISPETTO 2, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We walked along the terraced olive-yard Last Line: He had his meagre wine, and we our love. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love; Olive Trees And Olives; Tuscany, Italy TUSCAN OLIVES: RISPETTO 5, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At lucca, for the autumn festival Last Line: As on our risen love our lives are grown. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Love; Olive Trees And Olives; Tuscany, Italy TWO FOSCARI, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the prisoner? Last Line: A long and a just one; nature's debt and mine Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Foscari, Francesco (1373-1457); Venice, Italy TWO GRAVES AT ROME, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saints and caesars are here Subject(s): Italy 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 TWO MOMENTS IN VENICE: 1. UNDER THE CANALS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All one needs to do is follow the sound of water Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Canals; Venice, Italy; Water TWO MOMENTS IN VENICE: 1. UNDER THE CANALS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All one needs to do is follow the sound of water Last Line: Under the water who have more than all the time they need Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Canals; Venice, Italy; Water TWO MOMENTS IN VENICE: 2. CITY OF EVENINGS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is still too early for evening, and the smoke of early september is gath Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Cities; Venice, Italy; Urban Life TWO MOMENTS IN VENICE: 2. CITY OF EVENINGS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is still too early for evening, and the smoke of early september is gath Last Line: Covered the true shape of evening, and now it is almost evening Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Cities; Venice, Italy UGO BASSI, by HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON (BAILLE) KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fra ugo bassi, servant of our lord Last Line: That when I meet him, I may meet thee too! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton-king, Harriet Eleanor Subject(s): Bassi, Ugo (1801-1849); Biography; Catholic Church - Clergy; Firing Squads; Garibaldi, Giuseppe (1807-1882); Italy - Revolutions; Rome, Siege Of (1849); Biographers; Catholic Priests UGOLINO, by GEORGE ARTHUR GREENE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A little ray of light, unearthly pale Last Line: Till famine did its work, more sure than woe Alternate Author Name(s): Greene, G. A. Subject(s): Florence, Italy 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 UN BEL DI VEDREMO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello nbc, this is london speaking' Subject(s): Italy; War; World War I; World War Ii; Italians; First World War; Second World War UN BEL DI VEDREMO, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hello nbc, this is london speaking' Last Line: The second as evil farce' Subject(s): Italy; War; World War I; World War Ii UNDER THE SHADOW OF OUR PYRAMID, FR. LOVE IN ITALY, by JOHN HALL INGHAM Poem Source Subject(s): Italy UNITA ITALIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'twas rich, red wine that our fathers quaffed" Last Line: "'to italy, / union, love and liberty!'" Subject(s): Freedom;national Song - Italy;patriotism; Liberty;italian National Anthem UPUPA, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: Upupa, upupa, upupa Last Line: Softer but going further Subject(s): Italy 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 VALLOMBROSA, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks Subject(s): Italy VALLOMBROSA, by ERNEST MYERS Poem Source First Line: English wanderer, where etruria sings to thee Subject(s): Italy VENETIAN GHETTO, by HERB BRIN Poem Source First Line: No gondoliers sang me romance Subject(s): Gondolas And Gondoliers; Venice, Italy VENETIAN NIGHT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes in the darkness shone, in the twilight. Last Line: I remember her silence, and, in the night, her smile. Subject(s): Venice, Italy VENETIAN NOCTURNE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the narrow calle where the moonlight cannot enter Last Line: Ah! Could this be death? Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Death; Venice, Italy; Dead, The VENEZIA, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: If we had met in venice, dear my heart Last Line: Meet in your fair venezia some spring day. Subject(s): Love; Venice, Italy VENICE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here there is no sleep of nights Last Line: These have touched my dreams with madness Subject(s): "venice, Italy; VENICE, by IRVING BROWNE Poem Source First Line: Out of the land and in the sea Subject(s): Italy VENICE, by GIOVANNI DELLA CASA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These marble domes, by wealth and genius graced Last Line: O'erwhelmed by luxury, and by wealth opprest! Subject(s): Venice, Italy VENICE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Only a cloud,-far off it seemed to me Last Line: As mist blown seaward underneath the moon. Subject(s): Venice, Italy VENICE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the skies of this northern november Last Line: By all the chill blasts of november! Subject(s): Beauty; Venice, Italy; Vision VENICE, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: I've been there: 1989. Ate squid and scampi Last Line: Wine and crazy in love in venice, in springtime, in 1989 Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Romance; Travel; Venice, Italy VENICE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With pantheist energy of will Last Line: When venice rose in reefs of palaces. Subject(s): Venice, Italy VENICE, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am venezia, that sad magdalen Last Line: I hurt the tender with my speechless pain. Subject(s): Venice, Italy VENICE, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On rosy venice's breast Subject(s): Italy VENICE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not vainly that venetian master set Last Line: And even the soul's self dream into the day! Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Venice, Italy VENICE, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone on the riva I stood Last Line: Had I a listener, too? Subject(s): Venice, Italy VENICE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-girt city! Thou hast been Subject(s): Italy VENICE, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Venice, thou siren of sea cities, wrought Last Line: Man's soul, and waft her on storm melodies! Subject(s): Venice, Italy VENICE BRIDGE: FOR A PAINTING, by HILDA CONKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away back in an old city Last Line: And end in the sky. Subject(s): Bridges; Paintings & Painters; Venice, Italy VENICE IN WINTER, by ED ROSSMANN Poem Source First Line: Venice in winter: the sea is gray Last Line: And stirs a tall drink with a spoon Subject(s): Venice, Italy; Winter VENICE TO ITALY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O italy, my fateful mistress-land Last Line: All other love the love that holds god's light. Subject(s): Italy; Venice, Italy; Italians VENICE, WIDOW IN A GONDOLA 1891, by KAREN FISH Poem Source First Line: There is a thin line of shore in the distance Subject(s): Gondolas And Gondoliers; Venice, Italy VENICE: MAY DAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more it is early summer Subject(s): Daughters; Holidays; May (month); Parents; Venice, Italy; Parenthood VENICE: MAY DAY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once more it is early summer Last Line: Know that it has passed them by Subject(s): Daughters; Holidays; May (month); Parents; Venice, Italy VENICE: ROSE COLORED GLASSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten years, and it's still on the Subject(s): Venice, Italy; Music & Musicians; Radio VENICE; A FRAGMENT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight - but it is not dark Last Line: And mary's blessed likeness stands. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Venice, Italy VENICE; SONNET, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest Last Line: In air their unsubstantial masonry. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Venice, Italy VENTIAN SUNRISE, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How often have I now outwatched the night Subject(s): Italy VENUS DE MEDICI, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But arno wins us to the fair white walls Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Approach To Florenc Subject(s): Florence, Italy VERONA, by NICHOLAS MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Cross adria's gulf, and land where softly glide Subject(s): Italy VESUVIUS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dread, desolate mount! Subject(s): 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 VIEW FROM THE EUGANEAN HILLS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many a green isle needs must be Last Line: And the earth grow young again. Variant Title(s): Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills;written In The Euganean Hills, North Italy Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death; Italy; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sin; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Dead, The; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain) 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: 3. NAPLES, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nisida and prosida are laughing in the light Last Line: Oh when god made italy he was gay and young! Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Naples, Italy VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 4. CAPRI, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When beauty grows too great to bear Last Line: Could give me rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Capri, Italy VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 5. NIGHT SONG AT AMALFI, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I asked the heaven of stars Last Line: My whole life long? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Amalfi, Italy; Silence VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 6. RUINS OF PAESTUM, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On lowlands where the temples lie Last Line: The swift brown birds by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Paestum, Italy; Ruins 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 VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 8. FLORENCE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bells ring over the arno Last Line: He gives eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Florence, Italy VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 9. VILLA SEBELLONI, BELLAGGIO, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fountain shivers lightly in the rain Last Line: Change to a laurel in the glancing shower. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Italy; Italians VILLA OF HADRIAN, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Source First Line: The golden glory of an autumn sun Subject(s): Italy VILLA SCIARRA: ROME, by CHRISTINE TURNER CURTIS Poem Source First Line: Everything shall be erased Subject(s): Rome, Italy 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 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 VISION, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: The leaves will not alter their cast Last Line: Been drinking more than you should Subject(s): Italy VISIONS OF ITALY (AFTER CAPORETTO), by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a black and baneful day Last Line: As lover to his bride. Subject(s): Caporetto, Battle Of (1917); Italy; World War I; Italians; First World War VISIT TO TUSCULUM, by RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A solemn thing it is, and full of awe Subject(s): Italy VITA NUOVA: SONNET, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you pilgrams, musing as ye go Last Line: Has power to move to weeping him who hears Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Florence, Italy VITTORIA'S LAST SONG IN THE OPERA OF CAMILLA, MILAN, 1847, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot count the years Last Line: Italia, italia shall be free! Subject(s): Faith; Freedom; Italy; Belief; Creed; Liberty; Italians VOLCANOES, by BELLA AKHMADULINA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Extinct volcanoes are silent Last Line: At your dead feet? Did he, didn't he, %bellow: 'forgive me!'? Subject(s): Pompeii, Italy; Volcanoes VOYAGE AROUND POSILIPO, by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I came from naples at break of day Alternate Author Name(s): Raimar, Freidmund Subject(s): Italy WAR PASTORAL, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: When they came, they came like honey from a jar Last Line: Like shadows in the flaring, bloody sun Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii WATER-COLOUR OF VENICE, by LAWRENCE DURRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zarian was saying: florence is youth Last Line: At the bottom of every soul a spoonful of sleep Subject(s): Venice, Italy WHEEL, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: Outside, night. You can barely breathe Last Line: Don't want to dance. You want to know! Subject(s): Naples, Italy; World War Ii WISTERIA, by BRUCE CUTLER Poem Source First Line: As he went to sleep it seemed to hug the wall and windows all the closer Last Line: In a fine warm sweet-smelling midnight summer rain Subject(s): Naples, Italy; Wisteria; World War Ii 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 WRITTEN AT THE BATHS OF LUCCA, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fireflies, pulsing forth their rapid gleams Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Italy WRITTEN IN PETRARCH'S HOUSE AT ARQUA, AMONG EUGANEAN HILLS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Petrarch! I would that there might be Last Line: That sign of thy captivity? Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Argua, Italy; Petrarch (1304-1374); Francesco Petrarca WRITTEN IN TASSO'S HOUSE AT SORRENTO, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O leonora, here thy tasso dwelt Subject(s): Italy YOU PARKED YOUR CAR IN FONTAMARA, by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL Poem Source Last Line: Because you parked your car in fontamara Subject(s): Italy ZATTERE, by DAVID ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Sun Last Line: Lose %it Subject(s): Venice, Italy |
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