Love Poems – Page 2815
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The Coliseum
From “Childe Harold,” Canto IV. / ARCHES on arches! as it were that Rome, / Collecting the chief trophies of her line, … -
The Pantheon
From “Childe Harold,” Canto IV. / SIMPLE, erect, severe, austere, sublime,— / Shrine of all saints and temple of all gods, … -
A Day in the Pamfili Doria
Near Rome / THOUGH the hills are cold and snowy, / And the wind drives chill to-day, … -
February in Rome
When Roman fields are red with cyclamen, / And in the palace gardens you may find, / Under great leaves and sheltering briony-bind, … -
Saint Peter’s at Rome
From “Childe Harold,” Canto IV. / VASTNESS which grows, but grows to harmonize, / All musical in its immensities; … -
A View across the Roman Campagna
1861 / over the dumb campagna-sea, / Out in the offing through mist and rain, … -
Venice
Venice, thou Siren of sea cities, wrought / By mirage, built on water, stair o’er stair, / Of sunbeams and cloud shadows, phantom-fair, … -
The Gondola
Afloat; we move—delicious! Ah, / What else is like the gondola? / This level flow of liquid glass … -
Naples
From “Italy” / THIS region, surely, is not of the earth. / Was it not dropt from heaven? Not a grove, … -
That England
From “Aurora Leigh” / WHOEVER lives true life, will love true love. / I learned to love that England. Very oft, …
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