Potential Titles: Rome

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The wet highway of this decayed Rome - Richard Aldington "In the Via Sestina"

And in a silver rift, eternal Rome - Maurice Baring "Italy"

Upon her Seven Hills Rome rules the seas and tides - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Forlorn Campaign"

Pitched her purple tents in Rome - Witter Bynner "The New World V"

Rome on two iron legs - Tommaso Campanella "XLVII. Nebuchadnezzar's Image" transl. by John Addington Symonds

The days of jasmine in Rome - Cyrus Cassells "Jasmine"

To the highest key of ancient Rome - John Cleveland "To the Memory of Ben Jonson"

No more let Rome exult in Trajan's name - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

When Rome's ambition dyed the world with blood - Luís de Camões "The Lusiad; or, The Discovery of India: Book I. Argument" transl. by William Julius Mickle

I build a marble Rome, I give it to the wind - Robin Flower "La Vie Cerebrale"

A fault line under Rome - Katie Ford "Colosseum"

Rome with all her pride and power - Frances E.W. Harper "The Hermit's Sacrifice"

Who shook Rome's destinies - "The Heart: Addressed to Miss --"

Whom Rome called vicious - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"

That Romeward crawl from Dreamland - James Russell Lowell "To a Lady Playing on the Cithern"

The heart-strings in the ranks of Rome - John Masefield "On Malvern Hill"

To grace a triumph in the streets of Rome - Myron L. Mason "Zenobia" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]

Splendid as Rome that was Caesar's - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"

Cruel as Rome that was free - Charles Pelham Mulvaney "Poppoea"

Shook off the dust of Rome - John Oxenham "Quo Vadis?"

Blazing a wide path to Rome - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 3: The Light"

Sent straight home from Rome - "Roisin Dubh" transl. by Eleanor Hull

The map of ancient Rome in your pocket - Charles Simic "A Word"

Sung in the Romes of ruined spheres - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"

On my wall is a glimpse of Rome - "Snow" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]

Eyes forever cast toward Rome - Devin S. Turk "Statue of David with Top Surgery Scars"

The sparrows who flew from falling Rome - Ocean Vuong "Seventh Circle of Earth"

The shy cat fiddling while Rome sizzles - Cynthia Zarin "Summer"


Whose brickwork base the cunning Romans laid - Thomas Bailey Aldrich "Wyndham Towers"

As the Roman poets have stressed - Josh Bell "One Shies at the Prospect of Raising Yet Another Defense of Cannibalism"

Before the Roman came to Rye - G.K. Chesterton "The Rolling English Road"

The Roman method for making bees - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"

Tell me no tale how Romans built - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

Being a little weary of Roman virtue - D.H. Lawrence "Cypresses"

When the haughty Cleopatra sailed to meet her Roman Mars - Laurens Maynard "Ave Post Saecula"

An oath against the roman calendar - Jordan Kapono Nakamura "Interview"


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