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  • Now the grey granite, starting through the snow,
    Discovered many a variegated moss
    63 lines
  • It was a harper, wandering with his harp,
    His only treasure; a majestic man,
    55 lines
  • Those ancient men, what were they, who achieved
    A sway beyond the greatest conquerors;
    24 lines
  • He who sets sail from Naples, when the wind
    Blows fragrance from Posilipo, may soon,
    91 lines
  • This house was Andrea Doria's.  Here he lived;
    And here at eve relaxing, when ashore,
    44 lines
  • In the same hour the breath of life receiving,
    They came together and were beautiful;
    83 lines
  • Among those awful forms, in elder time
    Assembled, and through many an after-age
    78 lines
  • I am in Rome!  Oft as the morning-ray
    Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry,
    160 lines
  • Jorasse was in his three-and-twentieth year;
    Graceful and active as a stag just roused;
    115 lines
  • It was an hour of universal joy.
    The lark was up and at the gate of heaven,
    90 lines
  • War is a game at which all are sure to lose, sooner or
    later, play they how they will; yet every nation has
    72 lines
  • Pleasure, that comes unlooked-for, is thrice-welcome;
    And, if it stir the heart, if aught be there,
    99 lines
  • Have none appeared as tillers of the ground,
    None since They went -- as though it still were theirs,
    111 lines
  • 'What hangs behind that curtain?'--'Wouldst thou learn?
    If thou art wise, thou wouldst not.  'Tis by some
    58 lines
  • Still by the Leman Lake for many a mile,
    Among those  venerable trees I went,
    21 lines
  • My mule refreshed -- and, let the truth be told,
    He was nor dull nor contradictory,
    38 lines
  • Who first beholds those everlasting clouds,
    Seed-time and harvest, morning, noon and night,
    54 lines
  • 'Tis morning.  Let us wander through the fields,
    Where Cimabue found a shepherd-boy
    336 lines
  • They stand between the mountains and the sea;
    Awful memorials, but of whom we know not!
    114 lines
  • Of all the fairest Cities of the Earth
    None is so fair as Florence.  'Tis a gem
    91 lines
  • Day glimmered; and beyond the precipice
    (Which my mule followed as in love with fear,
    113 lines
  • Night was again descending, when my mule,
    That all day long had climbed among the clouds,
    120 lines
  •     Generous, and ardent, and as romantic as he could be,
    Montorio was in his earliest youth, when, on a summer-
    95 lines
  • When I am inclined to be serious, I love to wander up
    and  down  before  the  tomb  of  Caius Cestius.&
    24 lines
  • And now farewell to Italy -- perhaps
    For ever!  Yet, methinks, I could not go,
    101 lines
  • I dine very often with the good old Cardinal * * and, I
    should add, with his cats; for they always sit at his table,
    190 lines
  • 'Tis over; and her lovely cheek is now
    On her hard pillow -- there, alas, to be
    78 lines
  • 'Whence this delay?'  "Along the crowded street
    A Funeral comes, and with unusual pomp."
    96 lines
  • There is an Insect, that, when Evening comes,
    Small though he be, scarcely distinguishable,
    38 lines
  • One of two things Montrioli may have,
    My envy or compassion.  Both he cannot.
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