Potential Titles: Rome
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somethingdarkerWhose 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"
That old early time, when came the victor Roman - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Before the Roman came to Rye - G.K. Chesterton "The Rolling English Road"
Spartan coolness temper'd Roman fire - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
The Roman method for making bees - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"
Ancient Greek and Roman voices reveling in the background - Elaine Equi "Antiquity Calling" [Poetry Nov. 2008]
Tell me no tale how Romans built - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"
The exquisite Roman's rich despair - T.M. Kettle "Dedication Sonnet to My Wife"
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"
The wet highway of this decayed Rome - Richard Aldington "In the Via Sestina"
On my wall is a glimpse of Rome - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Snow" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
And in a silver rift, eternal Rome - Maurice Baring "Italy"
Rome's legacy recalled by certain barons in their failing days - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
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
With Rome's grey ruin strewn around - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
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"
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"
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As the Roman poets have stressed - Josh Bell "One Shies at the Prospect of Raising Yet Another Defense of Cannibalism"
That old early time, when came the victor Roman - Robert Chambers "To Scotland" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
Before the Roman came to Rye - G.K. Chesterton "The Rolling English Road"
Spartan coolness temper'd Roman fire - Delta "Stanzas Written After the Funeral of Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.B." [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLVI, v.LVII, June 1845]
The Roman method for making bees - Carolina Ebeid "[You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior]"
Ancient Greek and Roman voices reveling in the background - Elaine Equi "Antiquity Calling" [Poetry Nov. 2008]
Tell me no tale how Romans built - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"
The exquisite Roman's rich despair - T.M. Kettle "Dedication Sonnet to My Wife"
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"
The wet highway of this decayed Rome - Richard Aldington "In the Via Sestina"
On my wall is a glimpse of Rome - Elizabeth Akers Allen "Snow" [The Atlantic Monthly v.13 no.76, Feb. 1864]
And in a silver rift, eternal Rome - Maurice Baring "Italy"
Rome's legacy recalled by certain barons in their failing days - Charles Baudelaire "Spleen" transl. by Richard Howard
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
With Rome's grey ruin strewn around - J.S. "A Roman Idyl" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXLI, v.LV, Mar. 1844]
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"
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"
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