Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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THE CAMPAGNA OF ROME.
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THE CAMPAGNA OF ROME.
SONNET.
How clear the azure of the Roman air,How tenderly transparent and how clear!
All groweth beauteous in this atmosphere!—
All doth the crown of its pure glory wear,
Cypress and aqueduct, and temple fair—
Their forms of loveliness triumphant rear—
Dear to the sense and to the feeling dear,
And win a softened charm peculiar there!
And were those ruins and those trees away,
Nor cypress left, nor aqueduct to adorn
The fair Campagna—still each golden ray
Of this rich Roman Sun in Eve or Morn,
Should stream with beauty—and by Night and Day,
The Horizon and the Heavens gleam fair,—of pride unshorn!
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