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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