Sonnets written chiefly during a tour through Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Hungary. By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
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VENICE.
Thy place is on the sea!—the glorious sea!—Fairer than earth thro' all its varying hours!—
Most sunlike in the sunny, when all powers
Of beauty seem to walk in majesty
'Twixt Heaven and Earth, and when the storm raves free,
Most mighty and most wonderous!—while, like towers,
The uproused waves soar,—each scattering foamy showers—
As they would scale the sky and lifted be
Above the clouds and tempests, dark and drear,
That trouble them and toss!—thy place is there,
Oh! City, beautiful without a peer!—
In ruin noble—in decay how fair!—
Would we could steer thee as a ship we steer
To our own shores, that thus, thy Beauty's pomp should wear!
Venice.
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