Italy, a poem, Volume 1Longman and Company, 1822 |
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Page 8
... twas gone . The shifting sail flapped idly for an instant , Then bore them off . I am not one of those So dead to all things in this visible world , So wondrously profound - as to move on In the sweet light of heaven , like him of old ...
... twas gone . The shifting sail flapped idly for an instant , Then bore them off . I am not one of those So dead to all things in this visible world , So wondrously profound - as to move on In the sweet light of heaven , like him of old ...
Page 9
... twas day , And the bright Sun was in the firmament , A thousand shadows of a thousand hues Chequering the clear expanse . Awhile his Orb Hung o'er thy trackless fields of snow , Mont Blanc , Thy seas of ice and ice - built promontories ...
... twas day , And the bright Sun was in the firmament , A thousand shadows of a thousand hues Chequering the clear expanse . Awhile his Orb Hung o'er thy trackless fields of snow , Mont Blanc , Thy seas of ice and ice - built promontories ...
Page 11
... twas dusk ; and , journeying by the Rhone , That there came down , a torrent from the Alps , I entered where a key unlocks a kingdom , The mountains closing , and the road , the river Filling the narrow passage . There I slept . II ...
... twas dusk ; and , journeying by the Rhone , That there came down , a torrent from the Alps , I entered where a key unlocks a kingdom , The mountains closing , and the road , the river Filling the narrow passage . There I slept . II ...
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... Twas a rude pile of simplest masonry , With narrow windows and vast buttresses , Built to endure the shocks of Time and Chance ; Yet shewing many a rent , as well it might , Warred on for ever by the elements , And in an evil day , nor ...
... Twas a rude pile of simplest masonry , With narrow windows and vast buttresses , Built to endure the shocks of Time and Chance ; Yet shewing many a rent , as well it might , Warred on for ever by the elements , And in an evil day , nor ...
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... twas the vesper - hour , Duly proclaiming thro ' the wilderness , " All ye who hear , whatever be your work , - move your lips in prayer ! " Stop for an instant And , just beneath it , in that dreary dale , If dale it might be called ...
... twas the vesper - hour , Duly proclaiming thro ' the wilderness , " All ye who hear , whatever be your work , - move your lips in prayer ! " Stop for an instant And , just beneath it , in that dreary dale , If dale it might be called ...
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admiration adorned Alps ancient ARQUA Art thou awhile beauty beneath BERGAMO blood breathed Brenta Brides brow Chamber chapel clime clouds Cosmo cried darkness dead Descending Doge door ducal dungeon entered ere-long eyes Ezzelino Father fear feet fell Ferrara fling Florence foot Foscari Francesco Garzia gates gaze Ginevra Gliding glittering gold gone grief Grindelwald hadst hand heard heart Heaven holy hour Hung instant Italy JORASSE lake laugh light line 15 line 9 lived look Mantua Martigny Mastino mingled MONT BLANC mule noble noon and night NOTE o'er o'erflowing once Padua Palace passage-boat Petrarch roof round sail sate seen shadow sigh Singing sleep slept smiling snow song soon splendour stood thee thought thro Titian turned Twas underneath Vasari Venice Verona wall wandered weeping wept wert whence wilt winds young