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An Apology for the Bottle Volcanic Vachel Lindsay	It's Etna, or Vesuvius, if those big things were small, And then 'tis but itself again, and does not smoke at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bianca's Dream - A Venetian Story Thomas Hood	But his was red within him, like the core Of old Vesuvius, with perpetual heat; And oft he longed internally to pour His flames and glowing lava at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Crecy Francis Turner Palgrave	The plain is seething below As Vesuvius seethes with flame, But...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Eruption Cas Wilson	Mount Vesuvius erupting over and over again, Fiery...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Grief, unreasonable, unwelcome. Doug Blair	I hit like...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Irish Schoolmaster, The James A Sidey	And built on the equator; It's close to Mount Vesuvius, And watered by the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Limerick: There was an Old Man of Vesuvius, Edward Lear	There was an Old Man of Vesuvius, Who studied the works of Vitruvius; When...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Mesmerism Ezra Pound	Heart that was big as the bowels of Vesuvius, Words that were wing'd as her sparks in eruption, Eagled and thundered as Jupiter Pluvius,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Metr: Boetius 1s 1 Quisquis Comp Thomas Parnell	Shall see ye oceans boiling surges roll Vesuvius flames in smoaky pillars rise & bolts of thunder dart from opening skys Why dread we...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Modern Love XXXIV: Madam Would Speak With Me George Meredith	Vesuvius is expected to give news: Niagara is no...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Napoleon Victor Marie Hugo	The subject-lands that 'neath Vesuvius be, Whether he wind along the enchanting shore To Portici from fair Parthenope, Or, lingering...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pompeii Thomas Babbington Macaulay	In vain Vesuvius groaned with wrath supprest, And muttered thunder in his burning...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Privilege Asad Dahir	Sold as slaves in subjugation Mount Vesuvius of pain erupted daily As whips spilled blood like flowing lava Torn bodies littered among...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sun-Testament Harry Crosby	Eighth, I give and bequeathe to Lady Vesuvius a sunbonnet, a palace of clouds and the heart she once hurled up to...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Talking With Soldiers Walter J. Turner	Were like ghosts up the ghost of Vesuvius, As I sat and drank wine with the soldiers, As I sat in the Inn on the mountain, Watching...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Child's Funeral William Cullen Bryant	Vesuvius smokes in sight, whose fount of fire, Outgushing, drowned the cities on his steeps; And...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Death Of Conradin Felicia Dorothea Hemans	rise: While, far on high, Vesuvius rears his peak, Furrowed and dark with many a lava...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Ginestra, Count Giacomo Leopardi	Here, on the arid ridge Of dead Vesuvius, Exterminator terrible, That by no other tree or flower is cheered, Thou scatterest thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Headless Trooper James Brunton Stephens	Played Hades with the flies,— As I have seen Vesuvius Blow ashes to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Uriconium: an Ode Wilfred Owen	The Saxon shock was like Vesuvius'...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)