VATICAN POEMS

Amours De Voyage, Canto Iii

Yet to the wondrous St. Peter's, and yet to the solemn Rotunda,
Mingling with heroes and gods, yet to the Vatican Walls,
Yet may we go, and recline, while a whole mighty world seems above us,
Gathered and fixed to all time into one roofing supreme;
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Arthur Hugh Clough

Amours De Voyage - Canto Iii

CANTO III.

Yet to the wondrous St. Peter's, and yet to the solemn Rotonda,
Mingling with heroes and gods, yet to the Vatican Walls,
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Arthur Hugh Clough

Scenes From “politian.”

AN UNPUBLISHED DRAMA.

I.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Scenes From 'politian.' (an Unpublished Drama)

I.

ROME., A Hall in a Palace. ALESSANDRA and CASTIGLIONE

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Edgar Allan Poe

Amours De Voyage.

Oh, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio,
And taste with a distempered appetite!
SHAKSPEARE.

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Arthur Hugh Clough

Amours De Voyage - Canto V

CANTO V.

There is a city, upbuilt on the quays of the turbulent Arno,
Under Fiesole's heights, thither are we to return?
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Arthur Hugh Clough

The Bells Of Shandon

With deep affection,
And recollection,
I often think of
Those Shandon bells,
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Francis Mahony

St. Laurence

Within the broken Vatican
The murdered Pope is lying dead.
The soldiers of Valerian
Their evil hands are wet and red.
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Joyce Kilmer

The Bells Of Shandon

With deep affection and recollection
I often think of the Shandon bells,
Whose sounds so wild would, in days of childhood,
Fling round my cradle their magic spells.
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Francis Sylvester Mahony

Commanders Of The Faithful

The Pope he is a happy man,
His Palace is the Vatican,
And there he sits and drains his can:
The Pope he is a happy man.
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William Makepeace Thackeray

Symbols

PALM Sunday at the Vatican

They celebrate with palms;
With reverence bows each holy man,
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Qui Niera, Gillebert, S'il Ne Veut Résister

Qui niera, Gillebert, s'il ne veut résister
Au jugement commun, que le siège de Pierre
Qu'on peut dire à bon droit un paradis en terre,
Aussi bien que le ciel, n'ait son grand Jupiter ?
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Joachim Du Bellay

Symbols.

Palm Sunday at the Vatican

They celebrate with palms;
With reverence bows each holy man,
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Ancient Banner

In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,
The bosom of his Father, and assumed
A servant's form, though he had reigned a king,
In realms of glory, ere the worlds were made,
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Anonymous Americas

Chant Sur Le Berceau

Je veille. Ne crains rien. J'attends que tu t'endormes.
Les anges sur ton front viendront poser leurs bouches.
Je ne veux pas sur toi d'un rêve ayant des formes
Farouches ;
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Victor Marie Hugo

Garibaldi

In trance and dream of old, God's prophet saw
The casting down of thrones. Thou, watching lone
The hot Sardinian coast-line, hazy-hilled,
Where, fringing round Caprera's rocky zone
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John Greenleaf Whittier

On The Memory Of Mr. Edward King, Drown'd In The Irish Seas

I like not tears in tune, nor do I prize
His artificial grief that scans his eyes;
Mine weep down pious beads, but why should I
Confine them to the Muses' rosary?
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John Cleveland

Rome: The Vatican--sala Delle Muse (1887)

I sat in the Muses' Hall at the mid of the day,
And it seemed to grow still, and the people to pass away,
And the chiselled shapes to combine in a haze of sun,
Till beside a Carrara column there gleamed forth One.
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Thomas Hardy

Aux Morts Du 4 Décembre

Jouissez du repos que vous donne le maître.
Vous étiez autrefois des coeurs troublés peut-être,
Qu'un vain songe poursuit ;
L'erreur vous tourmentait, ou la haine, ou l'envie ;
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Victor Marie Hugo

To The Lord Falkland

FOR HIS SAFE RETURN FROM THE NORTHERN
EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SCOTS.
Great is thy Charge, O North! be wise and just,
England commits her Falkland to thy trust;
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Abraham Cowley

At A Vatican Exercise (excerpt)

The Latin speeches ended, the English thus began
Hail native language, that by sinews weak
Didst move my first endeavouring tongue to speak,
And mad'st imperfect words with childish trips,
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John Milton

Rome - The Vatican - Sala Delle Muse

I sat in the Muses' Hall at the mid of the day,
And it seemed to grow still, and the people to pass away,
And the chiselled shapes to combine in a haze of sun,
Till beside a Carrara column there gleamed forth One.
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Thomas Hardy

Scenes From "politian." An Unpublished Drama

I.

ROME.--A Hall in a Palace. ALESSANDRA and CASTIGLIONE

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Edgar Allan Poe

About Emma Lazarus. (written For "the Century Magazine")

Born July 22, 1849; Died November 19, 1887.



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Emma Lazarus

St. Laurence

Within the broken Vatican
The murdered Pope is lying dead.
The soldiers of Valerian
Their evil hands are wet and red.
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Alfred Joyce Kilmer (joyce)

To The Pope

May it please your Holiness
There are possibly two,
Or it may be three,
Men
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Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

To Dr. Sheridan

Whate'er your predecessors taught us,
I have a great esteem for Plautus;
And think your boys may gather there-hence
More wit and humour than from Terence;
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Jonathan Swift

The Plague

The world is mad
The world power is confused
Urban and primitive cities deserted.

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Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke

My Upside Down Town

As I walk down the road,I stumble and fall because of the enormous potholes .One may even see the hidden minerals underneath this road.
Wait! didn't our beloved Member of Parliament offer to make a donation to the UNRA to give us the best roads in the country?
Anyway, maybe he forgot and remembered to build his state of the art apartment in Munyonyo.

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Trudy Asiima

The Divine Comedy By Dante: The Vision Of Paradise: Canto Ix

After solution of my doubt, thy Charles,
O fair Clemenza, of the treachery spake
That must befall his seed: but, "Tell it not,"
Said he, "and let the destin'd years come round."
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Dante Alighieri

The Illuminati

From the book of revelation the warning is clear,
people will be deceived in worshipping the master of fear.
Predicted in scripture to lead most into loosing their salvation,
when false Gods are the symbol of appreciation.
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Robert Rittel