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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: POMPEII, ITALY Matches Found: 13 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
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