Sonnets written chiefly during a tour through Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Hungary. By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley |
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A FÊTE DAY AT VENICE.
On Venice' Waters blue her children heldFair Festival—made merry on the Sea!
And laughed, till laughing waves flung back their glee:
Sporting, they thus rejoiced on the open field
Of the azure Ocean; but dark thoughts of eld
Rushed o'er my soul; much it misliketh me
To see this heartless joy and gladness free!
Thy Melancholy, Venice! thus is quelled,
But not thy cause for mourning!—never more,
Alas! shall Triumph with fair Freedom move,
I fear, o'er thy blue seas, or palaced shore;
But ne'er dost thou so much command our love
Or feeling, as when restless day is o'er,
And thou art left alone to Seas and Skies above!
Constantinople.
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