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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NAPLES, ITALY Matches Found: 54 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.) 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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) 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 TO NAPLES, by HERBERT B. MALLALIEU Poem Source First Line: All day the coast of africa was seen Subject(s): Naples, Italy; War 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 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 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 |
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