Potential Titles: Nero [allusion]

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Caligula and Nero knew a godliness akin to mine - Thomas M. Disch "Ballade of the New God"

The Queen of the world that is Nero's - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"

Colder than the cynical snarl of Nero - Alfred Noyes "Lamarck, Lavoisier, and Ninety-Three"

Curse the Nero who planned this gory dance - Amy Redpath Roddick "The Calm that Comes with Years"

A beggar claimed to be playing Nero's fiddle - Charles Simic "Paradise"

Solemnly, crowned as Nero was - Marin Sorescu "Solemnly" transl. by W.D. Snodgrass with Dona Rosu and Luciana Costea

Would turn the eyes of Nero green - Edward S. Steele "Armenia Immolata"

I am the dream that Nero's mother had - George Sylvester Viereck "The Three Sphinxes"


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