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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: SICILY Matches Found: 20 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A THRENODY IN MEMORY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF MESSINA, by LOUIS V. LEDOUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sicilian muse! O thou who sittest dumb Last Line: The eyes of stolid caryatides. Subject(s): Messina, Sicily; Mythology ANTIQUE COIN, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still etna bears the red wine and the gold Last Line: The immortal beauty of sicilian girls. Subject(s): Etna (volcano); Numismatics; Sicily; Volcanoes; Aetna (volcano); Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical ASLEEP IN SAN VITO, by DANIEL KUNITZ Poem Source First Line: Had there been clouds, they would have shifted Last Line: My own bleached spine Subject(s): Sicily CATANIA, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Catania! On thy famed and classic shore Last Line: And from the mountain's womb comes forth a sullen roar. Subject(s): Catania, Sicily; Volcanoes 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 ERICE, WESTERN SICILY, by JOHN HEWITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Walled hilltop, islanded in sea-mist Last Line: What business is here to transact? %what merchandise? What ducats pass? Subject(s): Sicily GOATS, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I liked best in sicily Last Line: They seek the mountain and the tumbling flood. Subject(s): Goats; Sicily LINES WRITTEN AT TAORMINA, SICILY, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here on the dark rocks Last Line: Nods a drowsy head. Subject(s): Sicily MAMILLIA: VERSES AGAINST THE GENTLEWOMEN OF SICILIA, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since lady mild, too base in array, hath liv'd as Last Line: Fum'd with sweets, as sweet as chaste, no want but abundance. Subject(s): Sicily; Women MESSINA, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, wedded to the lord, still yearns my heart Last Line: High hope, pride-stain'd, the course without the prize. Subject(s): Messina, Sicily MESSINA, 1908, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, thou hast crushed thy tender ones Last Line: Thy mediate and intelligible hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Messina, Sicily ODE TO SICILY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No mortal hand hath struck the heroick string Last Line: That race again; down with it, dust to dust. Subject(s): Sicily SICILIAN ARETHUSA, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sicilian arethusa! Thou, whose arms Last Line: Of time will only make more durable? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sicily; Dead, The SICILY, DECEMBER, 1908, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O garden isle, beloved by sun and sea Last Line: Behold the son of god in human love! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Sicily SONNET: ISLES OF SCILLY, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw narcissus in a portico Last Line: Stampeding by the lone scillonian isles. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Sicily; Statues THE INVALID, by VIRGINIA FOLEY Poem Text First Line: Old ships are tired sailing into port Last Line: I dream the vagabondage they have known! Subject(s): Boats; Freedom; Japan; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Sicily; Liberty; Japanese; Seamen; Sails THE MASS FOR THE DEAD, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day unflagging in his stall Subject(s): Messina, Sicily; Death; Mass; Confession; Dead, The THE SICILIAN, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His golden face, un tipo Last Line: A classic of the soil. Subject(s): Beauty; Sicily THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF MESSINA, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To the perfect delight of messina Subject(s): Messina, Sicily; Old Age TRAGEDIES: 8, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: I dream'd I was in sicily Last Line: I'd tied at the headstone long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Graves; Sicily; Trees; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones |
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