Sonnets written chiefly during a tour through Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Hungary. By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
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ON THE VIEW FROM SCUTARI, THE ASIATIC SUBURB OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
The Islands seem soft-floating in the blueClouds of the Earth and of the slumbering Sea!—
The Olympus—snowy in sublimity!—
Wins with a thousand charms the longing view,
And the up-piled hills which clouds of amber strew—
His noble comrades—with his state agree!
Sunset hath lent the scene strange radiancy;
'Tis bathed in floating light of every hue!
Gaze round!—for ever gaze!—since evermore
And everywhere some fresh enchantment, true,
Breathes from the Sea—the City—or the Shore!—
And thrills the o'erraptured spirit through and through—
Here, all things glorious join in matchless store—
Art—Nature,—meet, to make Creation new!
Constantinople.
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