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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: VENICE, ITALY Matches Found: 111 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 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 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 WATER-COLOUR OF VENICE, by LAWRENCE DURRELL Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zarian was saying: florence is youth Subject(s): Venice, 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 AUTUMNAL, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 ELEVATED, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three stories up the town in venice: there Subject(s): Venice, Italy 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 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 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 GOING IN, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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 MUSIC IN VENICE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ROSE COLORED GLASSES, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem 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 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 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 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 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 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 SOTTOPORTICO SAN ZACCARIA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem 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 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 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; 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ZATTERE, by DAVID ALEXANDER Poem Source First Line: Sun Last Line: Lose %it Subject(s): Venice, Italy |
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