Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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['Twas a fair sight!—great Genoa like a Queen]
'Twas a fair sight!—great Genoa like a Queen,In towery domination, o'er the sea
Rose beautiful; while tossing in proud glee,
There crowded vessels crowned the watery scene!
Afar all sparkling bright with marble's sheen—
White villas clustered—and appeared to be
Earth-meteors glimpsed through clouds resplendently,
Set in their sombre frames of cypress green—
Above me spreads a Paradise of Sky
Smooth as a glass—and on its broad expanse
I almost looked with fond expectancy—
(Rapt in a dreamy pleasurable trance),
Hoping to see th' Earth mirrored to mine eye
As that was on the glittering Sea perchance!
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